Job Description

At Coop we are boldly going where no one has gone before. We look at creating a new standard in the industry as a whole. Together with a fantastic team of highly skilled team members we are on a journey to innovate new ways of interacting with customers and finding ways of helping them with the constant puzzle that is life.

We are now looking for a Tech lead to our Data platform . The purpose is to continue building our state-of-the-art data platform up in the cloud to make Coop a truly data driven company. Our motto is “Relevance in every touchpoint”! The understanding of our customers’ needs and behaviors will fuel the innovation process to become more personalized and efficient.

Are you a data engineer passionate in finding and creating new solutions in the food experience arena? Then this exciting job-opportunity might be something for you.

About the role

We have come a long way in building a great data platform, but we need your help on the way forward. The platform empowers both our data scientists to develop new AI/ML models as well as democratize data to the analysts and business users throughout the organization.

The team works with data from both digital and physical touchpoints to find and identify complex patterns and relationships in large data sets.

What you will do:

• Be responsible for the platform in terms of technology, platform strategy and architecture and our platform KPI’s
• Develop pipelines and data products that help improve our data platform and provide business value
• Lead "how we do things”
• Keep the technical landscape together

The position is permanent with a 6-month probationary period starting by agreement. Working from home or at the office? We usually say "team over individual" and expect you to be at the office when needed, plain and simple.

Skills & Requirements

We believe that you:

• Have at least 5-10 years of expertise working as Data Engineer, preferably with cloud architecture.
• Have worked with data lake and the concept of save data in raw immutable form
• Have experience working with data pipelines in cloud environments, preferably in Azure and Databricks.
• Are skilled in programming (SQL and Python)
• Have communicative and educational skills to be able to discuss solutions both with technical specialists and people without technical knowledge

It’s meritorious if you:

• Have experience from being tech lead or similar role
• Have experience working with DevOps
• Are familiar with Kafka, and the principles and concepts of event-driven architecture and streaming data
• Familiar with Kubernetes and software development best practices
• Experience from other programming languages such as Java or Scala

Who are you?

To succeed in this role, we believe you have a great passion for getting value from massive datasets, without compromising our platforms integrity. We hope that you love to work with state-of-art technologies that make it possible to create completely new data driven solutions, because we surely do!

As a person, you enjoy working with different tasks and stakeholders, you are result-oriented and spark when giving room for taking own initiatives and creating solutions

As a team, we believe in supporting and challenging each other and growing a positive and learning team culture.

About us:

The retail grocery sector is a stable and important part of our society. With over 4 million members across the country, Coop is a key player in pushing for a greener and more sustainable future.

You will be part of a corporate culture characterized by humility, initiative, and strong values. We collectively take responsibility and have a strong desire to help each other succeed. Our office in Solna offers a modern and great working environment with a fantastic

staff restaurant

. At Coop, we work for our 4 million members, making us by far Sweden's largest cooperative.

To fairly match candidates with the demands of the role, we will use tests during the selection process.

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we are continuously working on selection and interviews!