Senior Data Engineer

Overview

At Nortal we believe in thinking big – creating solutions that have a meaningful, far-reaching impact, whether through digitizing governments, improved healthcare, convenient telecom services or creating a competitive edge and agility for large businesses, industry, and manufacturing companies. Our projects have touched more than half a billion people’s lives worldwide, and we’re just getting started. 

Exciting opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer to drive innovation and transformation in Industrial, Health, and Public sectors at Nortal.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and optimize cutting-edge data pipelines and modern platforms to drive impactful analytics and business intelligence solutions.

• Re-engineer legacy data solutions and analytics environments, driving modernization efforts aligned with best practices and cloud-native technologies.

• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to determine their fit for current and future data engineering projects.

• Tackle complex data engineering challenges with a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset, selecting the right tools and approaches for each use case.

• Demonstrate leadership by setting high standards in hands-on development, code quality, and technical excellence to inspire and guide the engineering team.

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to ensure data solutions meet both technical and strategic requirements.

Qualifications

• Proficient in utilizing data platforms and tools including Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Airflow, and Data Lake/Lakehouse architectures to drive impactful analytics and business intelligence solutions.
• Expertise in designing and orchestrating highly scalable ETL/ELT pipelines across diverse batch and streaming workloads to drive modernization efforts and impactful analytics.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python
• Data modeling expertise, including star/snowflake schemas, Datavault 2.0 lakehouse principles, and medallion architecture
• Working with time-series data, especially using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and KQL
• Building real-time data solutions using Azure Event Hubs or Kafka
• CI/CD and DataOps best practices, including Git, Azure DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code
• Solid experience with Azure Cloud ecosystem and services
• Software development background with a mindset for clean, testable, and maintainable code
• Basic reporting skills with Grafana, PowerBI or similar
• Experience working as a consultant
• Language skills: English and Finnish

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to act independently and take ownership of solutions
• Trusted advisor attitude with problem-solving focus
• Team player with collaborative working style
• Flexibility and adaptability in dynamic client environments
• Proactive approach to identifying and addressing data engineering challenges and driving innovative solutions.

Nortal is a bold, agile, and international IT and consulting company with a solid history. In Finland, we have nearly 200 professionals, and we build innovative solutions and services that bring real benefits to users and society as a whole.

We offer you meaningful work in a great team. We genuinely work together because this is how we can build the best possible solutions for our customers. Everyone can be themselves, and each person is an important part of the team from the very first day. We believe that together we can develop, achieve goals, and succeed in the best possible way.

You can choose mostly flexibly whether you want to work entirely remotely or partially. Working is also possible in our modern offices located in Helsinki, Turku, Oulu, Jyväskylä, and Uusikaupunki. Join us in creating advanced solutions while learning new things and sharing your expertise with new colleagues.