Do you want to bring retail business into the future?

We see data as essential to our success as a business and are determined to reinvent our data landscape to make data access in our organisation easy, safe, and reliable so that we can leverage this important asset in delivering better value to our co-owners and customers faster. We plan to achieve our vision by adopting a data mesh architecture and a domain-oriented organisational structure where autonomous value stream teams deliver data as a product to other teams and use this data to build compelling products. 

In this endeavour, we need motivated people to work with value stream teams to make data a 1st class citizen. In this process, help us discover and build new and useful platform capabilities that can accelerate the process of building data products, and data analytics. Do you recognise yourself? Keep reading! 

Day-to-day tasks may look somewhat like this: 

• Work as part of value stream teams (or cross-functional teams) to both extract and deliver data as a product internally in the organisation and to leverage data in creating compelling and valuable products for our customers. 
• Collaborate with data science and analytics to create compelling new products and improve existing products. Be an enabler for our team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts by maintaining and building data pipelines, deploy models on production in an MLOps fashion.
• Be a key contributor to our transition from a hybrid on-prem & BizTalk architecture to a Cloud-native architecture. 
• Build our data and analytics platform highlighting critical patterns for performing data analytics and creating data products, and creating platform capabilities that can help teams perform these activities better and faster. 
• Actively contribute to defining our guidelines and ways of working. 
• Actively contribute to fostering a modern data culture within Coop and strengthen our data-driven organisation. 

Who are we looking for? 

We are looking for a person who is passionate about data and technology, and has some of the following: 

• Knowledge and experience writing data pipelines, implementing data-driven services, and data integration patterns. 
• Understanding various database technologies such as relational, document, graph, time series, or key-value databases. 
• Experience creating ML training and prediction pipelines. 
• Experience with data modelling. 
• Understanding of distributed data architectures and patterns. 
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, cloud solutions (we use Google Cloud and Azure), container-based workflows, or distributed systems are all regarded as positive. 
• A DevSecOps mindset. 
• Experience working directly with data sources in cloud-based solutions (e.g., Azure Logic Apps, Event Grid, Event Hub, Service Bus, Azure Functions).
• The ability to take initiative and responsibility in your line of work yet maintain focus on how we can achieve greater speed through focus and keeping an eye on our high-level goals and ambitions. 

Are you missing some of these skills? Not a problem! We are committed to the growth of our employees as they are the key to our success. As long as you have the will and drive to learn what you need to know and a proactive and open approach to learning, we will help you master any relevant skill, technology, or tool. 

Qualifications: 

• 3-10 years of experience in data engineering using relevant and new technologies and tools. 
• Higher education (BSc, MSc, or equivalent) within relevant fields of study or equivalent experience.
• Good communication skills in English (Norwegian is a plus) 

We can offer you: 

• The chance to take part in building and shaping one of the most exciting commitments the retail and consumer goods industry has seen in a long time. 
• Work with modern, open-source technologies and some of the most interesting data foundations in the industry to solve complex and important business problems that benefit all of Coop’s customers and 2 million co-owners. 
• You’ll be a part of an ambitious and diverse team where you get to impact the way of working and contribute to organisational guidelines. 
• A high degree of autonomy where it’s up to you and your team to define technologies and tools to solve the problem ahead. 
• Excellent opportunities for personal and professional development (e.g., conferences, training, upskilling, etc.) 
• Spacious and modern office spaces at our HQ at Grorud with flexibility on working hours and location. 
• Gear and equipment (Mac/Windows/Linux) are provided when you begin your adventure with us. 
• Competitive compensation package in addition to good pension and insurance schemes. 
• Other benefits like internet coverage, company cabins, and discounts in all Coop stores. 

Our Technology Stack: 

We have a diverse technology stack, some of the more prominent and permanent parts of it are: 

• Python, Go, C# 
• PostgreSQL, BigQuery, dbt 
• Protocol Buffers for data modelling 
• Machine Learning frameworks and stack like PyTorch and Tensor Flow 
• Apache Beam 
• Workflow engines like Cloud composer and Kubeflow 
• Integration frameworks like e.g., Apache Camel, Service Bus, Event-Driven Architectures
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Terraform 
• GCP and Azure 
• Service mesh and Data mesh 

Want to learn more about the role or who we are? Get in touch with Tuva Brekke Krossli, Recruitment Advisor (+47 915 47 647 / tuva.brekke.krossli(at)coop.no)