Senior Data Engineer (m/w/d)

Job Description

We offer you a unique opportunity to become one of the pioneers at our battery gigafactory in Germany, offering a head-start in Sweden during the initial phase of your employment with us. Through our 12-18 months Battery Excellence program you will have the chance to delve into various aspects of the Northvolt Software and Data Platform as well as battery manufacturing process in Sweden, and ultimately emerge as one of the first engineers at our Heide facility.

As an experienced Senior Data Engineer in the Data & Analytics Team at Northvolt's Gigafactory site in Heide, northern Germany, you will drive the design, implementation, and optimisation of complex data infrastructure and systems critical to Northvolt’s data strategy.

You will be part of the Drei Data & Analytics Team building the next-gen connected factory. Our cloud-first strategy, implemented today in Northvolt Ett (our first Gigafactory in Skellefteå, Sweden), sets a global example in manufacturing. Our factories produce large amounts of heterogenous data that get uploaded to our cloud platform, and are then processed, organized, and ready for analysis. You will work with the Data Platform Team based in Sweden to strengthen the technology platform to expand beyond today’s capabilities and our first Gigafactory deployment in Sweden. The Northvolt Data Platform powers detailed product traceability, real-time monitoring of manufacturing line effectiveness, computer vision defect detection, and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) modelling to predict quality and performance of the produced battery cells. Check out our blueprint strategy for our factories at Northvolt’s next-gen connected factory—a digital blueprint factory built from scratch | Amazon Web Services.

We presented our vision and progress at AWS re:Invent 2023 (Northvolt part starts at 11:46

AWS re:Invent 2023 - Northvolt’s software-defined factories (MFG202) (youtube.com)

About the job: 

Your primary focus will be on architecting scalable and robust data solutions, mentoring junior team members, and collaborating with cross functional teams to deliver high-quality data products and services. You will leverage your deep expertise in data engineering principles and technologies to solve challenging problems, optimize data processing workflows, and ensure the reliability, performance, and security of data pipelines. Additionally, you will play a key role in shaping the organization's data architecture, driving innovation, and influencing technical decisions to support strategic business objectives. The Senior Data Engineer will work with cloud computing platforms, specifically AWS, to enable accelerated learning from data at scale.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Lead the design and development of scalable data pipelines and ETL processes for large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable, reliable, and high-performance technical solutions.
• Mentor and coach junior data engineers, guiding best practices, coding standards, and technical skill development.
• Optimize data processing workflows and infrastructure for performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness using cloud-native technologies.
• Design and implement data models and schemas for analytics, reporting, and machine learning applications.
• Implement data quality checks and monitoring to ensure data pipeline integrity and reliability.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex data-related issues, including performance bottlenecks and system failures.

Northvolt is an equal opportunity employer. We're a diverse group of individuals, united by a common mission, who recognise that while our actions as individuals have a role to play in driving Northvolt towards its goals, we always seek to move forward as a team. We offer you an open and welcoming atmosphere where we win as a team – and fail as a team. Northvolt is growing at the speed of light and we are a strong believer in internal career development. For us it’s important to look at your skills and potential, please refrain form including your picture and age with your application to help us with this.

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Full time employment, fixed salary.
Planned starting date is asap.

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