Hybrid Chief Data Engineer

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About the role

  • Chief Data Engineer leading Scania’s Commercial Data Engineering team for growing sustainable transport solutions. Focused on data products and pipelines for BI, analytics, and AI.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow the Data Engineering team; define ways of working aligned to business needs and Data Mesh infrastructure
  • Develop, publish, and maintain engineering standards and blueprints (coding/testing, dbt conventions, CI/CD, schema/versioning, observability)
  • Deliver high-quality data products optimized for BI, AI and analytics
  • Implement pipelines and controls for retention, PII handling, access frameworks, and auditability; automate policy enforcement
  • Establish and operate DataOps tooling; enable self-service via platform templates
  • Operate pipelines from ingestion to serving; implement runbooks, incident response, reliability patterns
  • Own data product lifecycle; manage SLAs, cost-to-serve, capacity; align with governance and migration/decommission plans
  • Monitor lineage, freshness, completeness, drift, health, cost, and usage; publish KPIs
  • Run feedback loops with producers/consumers; drive continuous improvement
  • Support domain teams building data products; coach on data quality rankings and SLOs
  • Lead a Data Engineering Community of Practice

Requirements

  • 6+ years in data engineering
  • 3+ years leading data engineering teams
  • Proven delivery of pipelines and data products on AWS, dbt, and Snowflake; knowledge of Azure
  • Advanced proficiency with dbt and modern ELT/ETL
  • Strong in CI/CD
  • Experience establishing Data Mesh and DataOps
  • Strong stakeholder management and coaching
  • Experience with external data sources as products is a plus
  • Bachelor’s/Master’s in engineering or other relevant field
  • Proficiency in English

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Result bonus
  • Company car leasing
  • Access to health center or wellness allowance

Job title

Chief Data Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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