Senior Data Engineer

We are Telia Company - Division X - Data Insights Business Unit. We are leading Telia Company’s journey of becoming truly data driven, and leveraging big data as part of our ambitions of being a New Generation Telco. We are already more than 20 highly driven, competent and curious colleagues securing our big data services and outcomes from data and analytics.

Telia Company is now looking to strengthen its team with a Senior Data Engineer. This role will be a key enabler towards the development of our big data production pipelines, ingesting a variety of data sources all the way to generating business value and insights. We are confident that we are *the* place to work for a senior and driven big data and advanced software engineer, who wants to work hands on with big data analytics, evolving our exploratory analytics initiatives to production-ready processes and streams, thus contributing to a truly data driven company and becoming a New Generation Telco.

You will be working in an international team comprised of dedicated Software Engineers and Data Scientist and Analysts, with all our countries to develop insights, analytics and innovation from true big data.

The data we work with is big in its truest form, leveraging the vast computing and storage capabilities in our Hadoop based Common Data Lake, used in all our markets, as well as exploring new input streams. We use a wide range of tools such as Notebooks, R/Python, Spark, while embracing the cloud(s) for our computing and processing capabilities. Our data scientists works closely with the data engineers, securing agile exploration and discovery and delivery of insights and outcomes.

If you want to be part of our journey of being a data-driven New Generation Telco. Then we definitely want to talk to you.

Your next challenge?
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be instrumental in creating/strengthening our data processing pipelines in order to apply Analytics and Insights algorithms at scale, securely, and efficiently on our Big Data. You will be part of Telia’s Data Insights International Business Unit team, and work closely with a range of awesome multidisciplinary engineers.

Who are you?
For this role we are looking for an enthusiastic person with focus on excellent code quality and delivery skills and who is also a real team player with good communication skills, a very good ability to learn/adapt as well as a problem-solving attitude. You are ready to take on challenges to find and resolve issues within Big Data processing, you work proactively and pragmatically to ensure quality and speed of delivery. You are good at finding the correct balance between exploration and execution and you understand how to leverage the team's capabilities and capacity to reach our goals. As a Senior, you shall proactively drive and propose efficiency changes as well as service improvements on the multiple pipelines, and possibly mentor some of our younger team members. We offer a challenging position with plenty of opportunities in an exciting and growing business area.

Your personality:

• People loving and with excellent communication skills
• Problem solver
• Highly organized and focused multi-tasker

Your Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of education within IT, Engineering, Mathematic/Statistiscs or any relevant education. Relevant experience can replace insufficient education.  
• Minimum 2 years of experience working as a Senior Data Engineer within a development team.
• Good experience of team working and agile development methods and frameworks.
• In the last 5 years, minimum 2 years of experience working with one or more programming languages: Python, Javascript, Scala, Java
• Within the last 2 years, be able to document experience of working with application development and architecture which supports continuous delivery
• Proficient in English, both oral and written and able to formulate complex cases/situations to a variety of target groups. Norwegian/Swedish is a plus.
• Must be structured, focused and work proactively
• Have the ability to solve problems immediately and proactively while still considering long-term effects 

How?
Telia Company’s values Dare, Care and Simplify are the foundation for everything we do.

We Dare to lead by engaging with our customers and challenging ourselves.

We Care for our customers by providing solutions that are adapted to their needs.

We Simplify our teamwork through transparent communication, active collaboration and knowledge sharing.

If you feel that you fit into the above, and are driven by securing value from real big data and analytics in a fun and fast paced environment then we really want to talk to you!

Welcome to Telia – Home to your next big opportunity!