Senior Data Platform Engineer — Azure Databricks & CI/CD

Arla Foods; Denmark; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Arla Foods seeks an Experienced Data Platform Engineer to evolve and scale the Data Foundation. You will shape the cloud-based data platform, ensure reliability and performance, and mentor colleagues across an international team.

The role emphasizes security-aware development, collaboration with product teams, and driving best practices in CI/CD and observability. English proficiency is required.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience developing and maintaining enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Strong expertise in Azure Databricks, Azure services, Terraform, Python/PySpark and SQL.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, GitHub and IaC.
• Solid understanding of architectural patterns and modern software practices.
• Security-first mindset with DevOps and compliance emphasis.
• Professionals with English proficiency and strong stakeholder skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical implementation of complex features and services while reducing debt.
• Mentor developers via code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Collaborate with Product Architects and teams to shape direction and NFRs.
• Design and implement robust services, APIs and data pipelines.
• Drive code quality, testing, automation and observability practices.
• Evolve CI/CD pipelines and strengthen platform reliability and performance.
• Improve security and compliance by integrating testing and remediation.

Skills

Platform development

Mentoring

Communication

Security mindset

Observability

Performance optimization

Incident management

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure services

Terraform

Python/PySpark

SQL

Azure Data Factory

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Job description

Arla Foods seeks an Experienced Data Platform Engineer to evolve and scale the Data Foundation. You will shape the cloud-based data platform, ensure reliability and performance, and mentor colleagues across an international team.

The role emphasizes security-aware development, collaboration with product teams, and driving best practices in CI/CD and observability. English proficiency is required.