Senior Data Platform Engineer

Telenor Linx is a company within the Telenor Group. We partner with global digital players such as Google, Meta and Netflix, and Mobile Network Operators worldwide, to provide the best possible user experience. We secure connectivity for over 200 million subscribers, enabling them to stay connected independent of where they are. 

Telenor Linx is the result of merging the two global units Telenor Digital AS and Telenor Global Services AS and is fully owned by Telenor Group. The company has an estimated yearly revenue of approx. 2 BNOK and engages 200 people across the world with offices in Norway (HQ), Sweden, Poland, Dubai, Pakistan, Thailand, Singapore. 

We offer a broad set of products and services as core telco services such as international voice, messaging, data roaming for Telenor, including software development of cloud-native solutions connecting mobile operators and digital service providers, globally. 

About the Team 

You'll be joining a small team that is responsible for ensuring our data platform delivers maximum value to internal product teams. We are a high-performing team that collaborates to create exceptional user experiences and deliver a platform product that drives revenue for Telenor. We apply agile and iterative methods and operate in a collaborative, DevOps manner. We prioritize quality, integrity, and agility over time, deliver small changes often, and strive to maintain close, trustful relationships with our product managers and leadership. We use modern tools and techniques, and you are free to choose between a Mac or Linux.

Who are You? 

We are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer who can actively contribute to bringing our data platform forward.

 ·        You are passionate about building a state-of-the-art data lakehouse based data platform providing our clients with high quality data and excellent tooling.

·        You value practical solutions and business impact over specific technologies.

·        You’re a skilled coder who can contribute to homegrown solutions when required.

·        Working together with colleagues inspires you, and creating quality products is a motivation. 

·        You take pride in crafting quality code and solutions that the users love, you are passionate about data engineering work, and you are motivated by making users happy.

You will be involved in the entire development lifecycle: from requirement gathering and analysis to design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, and maintenance.

Skills We Are Looking For 

To thrive in this team, we believe you should have knowledge and experience in many (but not necessarily all) of the following areas: 

·        Excellent problem-solving capabilities. 

·        Developing and maintaining cloud-native applications, including setting up resources with Infrastructure-as-Code: AWS (Amazon Web Services), Terraform, Terragrunt. 

·        Traditional Data, Big-Data or Data streaming solutions and more modern Lakehouse solutions, including Apache Kafka, Databricks and AWS Athena.

·        Experience with data transformation using Databricks medallion architecture and modeling with SQL.

·        Experience with data transformation frameworks like dbt or SQLMesh.

·        Experience with data pipeline implementation, orchestration and maintenance.

·        Some experience building and maintaining ML pipelines. 

·        Programming: Python, Spark, SQL. 

·        Code-versioning and CI/CD: GitHub, GitHub Actions.

·        Metrics collection, visualizing and alerting (observability): Prometheus, Prometheus Alertmanager, Grafana 

Most of the engineers in the team have an M.Sc. in Computer Science, or similar relevant experience/education and we think you have the same. Our working language is English; therefore, a fluent English level is required.

How We Work 

We follow Agile methodologies to plan and execute our work, but we are not strict about it. We adopt what works best for our current setup. OKRs, sprints/kanban, daily standups, quarterly planning meetings, retrospectives and 1-on-1s are part of our routines; we use JIRA and Confluence to keep things organised. We sometimes pair-program, many times we rely on code-reviews. All the time, we use reason to argue with each other and accept that we do not always need to agree. We always respect each other.

Some of the Benefits We Offer: 

Some of the benefits we offer are an excellent canteen (subsidized lunch), coffee, snacks, opportunity to book company-subsidized cabins, a subsidized gym membership, an insurance scheme, corporate discounts, good pension plan, professional development opportunities through company-paid courses and tons of social activities. 

Other Information 

Application deadline: We will process applications continuously 

Location: Fornebu, Norway 

All relevant candidates are subject to a background check conducted by our vendor, Semac.