Senior Software/Data Engineer

Saxo Group; Denmark; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Saxo Group in Copenhagen, Denmark, seeks a Senior Software/Data Engineer to join the FCP Modelling & Development team. You will build AML data products, design scalable ETL pipelines, and enable secure data exchange across internal and external systems.

We value 5+ years in data or software roles, strong Python/SQL/Spark, and hands-on experience with Databricks, Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow, and Azure. You will work with production data, support ML workflows, and contribute to architecture and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering, software engineering, data-platform engineering, or related production data role.
• Strong Python, SQL, and Spark skills with production data pipelines and data models.
• Practical experience with Databricks, Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow, Azure, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting ML workflows, including feature engineering, dataset versioning, and production-ready model inputs.
• Deployment skills for production workloads, including CI/CD, containerized services, and Kubernetes or similar orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve reusable AML data products, data-modelling components, and user-facing interfaces with clear ownership and governance.
• Design robust ETL pipelines and interfaces for secure data exchange across internal and external systems.
• Translate FCP and AML requirements into durable production systems and contribute to solution architecture decisions.
• Partner with FCP/AML experts on transaction monitoring, client risk rating, and related development initiatives.
• Define automated checks for data completeness, consistency, and security, and own observability and production resilience.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Databricks

Kafka

Snowflake

Airflow

Azure

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Copenhagen, Denmark

About The Job Do you want to work with data engineering, platform development, and data-based automated processes within Saxo's Financial Crime Prevention (FCP)? Saxo is an investment bank with high speed, global colleagues, and a strong focus on using technology and data to prevent financial crime. We are looking for a Senior Software/Data Engineer to join the FCP Modelling & Development team. FCP Modelling & Development is part of the 1st Line of Defence in Group Operations and is located in Saxo's headquarters in Hellerup. The team works with models and data-based automated processes used across FCP. The goal is to ensure that these data assets and processes are sound, fit for purpose, adequately documented, secure, and regularly reviewed.

Responsibilities

Build, operate, and continuously improve reusable AML data products, data-modelling components, and user-facing interfaces, with clear ownership, lineage, documentation, quality controls, and production reliability. Design robust ETL pipelines and integration interfaces for operational, analytical, model-development, and external-platform use cases, enabling secure and efficient data exchange across internal and external systems. Translate FCP and AML requirements into durable, adaptable production systems, contributing to solution architecture decisions on design patterns, system scalability, regulatory compliance, and flexibility across AML processes. Partner with FCP and AML subject-matter experts on transaction monitoring, customer segmentation, scenario development, client risk rating, surveillance support, and AML-related development initiatives that strengthen financial crime prevention capabilities. Define automated checks for completeness, consistency, validity, reconciliation, source-to-target integrity, architectural integrity, security, performance, and governance standards. Own observability, alerting, incident response, backfills, runbooks, performance tuning, production support, and operational resilience for critical data assets. Raise engineering standards through design and code reviews, mentoring, reusable patterns, clean and well-documented code, test-driven development, secure coding practices, CI/CD pipeline optimization, automated testing, and continuous improvement.

Your profile

5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, data-platform engineering, or a related production data role. Strong Python, SQL, and Spark skills, with experience building and maintaining production data pipelines and data models. Practical experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow, Azure, or similar technologies. Experience supporting ML workflows, including feature engineering, feature data preparation, dataset versioning, reproducible training and validation datasets, model-validation support, and production-ready model inputs. Deployment skills for production workloads, including CI/CD, containerized services, and Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms. Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, data access controls, encryption, secure handling of sensitive data, and practical data-security patterns using Azure services such as Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Key Vault, Azure RBAC, and Managed Identities. Hands‑on experience maintaining production data pipelines, including data quality testing, reconciliation, lineage, metadata management, documentation, monitoring, and operational controls. Experience with financial crime prevention in regulated financial services, including AML, KYC/CDD/ODD, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, client risk rating, and market‑abuse surveillance support. Experience with GDPR‑sensitive data, audit evidence, regulator‑facing reporting, or data governance in control‑heavy environments.

Nice to have

Experience with data quality validation tools e.g. Great Expectations (GX), dbt‑expectations, Soda, Deequ, or Microsoft Fabric. Clear communication in English with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

We get curious people invested in the world. When you work at Saxo, you become a Saxonian and part of a purpose‑driven organisation, where good ideas are always taken seriously, and where you can make a true impact. We are invested in your development, and you can expect a robust career from day one when you join Saxo – no matter which role you take on. You will join 2,500 other ambitious colleagues across 11 countries and become part of an international organisation. Working in Saxo, you will get to meet colleagues from many different cultures and backgrounds, and you should know that we value diversity and inclusion and see it as a genuine source of strength to drive growth, foster innovation and position us for long‑term success. We encourage an open feedback culture and supportive team environments enabling employees to grow and fulfil their career aspirations. When you bring passion, curiosity, drive and team spirit, your learning journey will be dynamic and your career opportunities in Saxo will be immense. At Saxo we don’t just offer a job – we offer an opportunity to invest in your future!

We believe access to global capital markets is not only for the privileged few. Our vision is to enable people to fulfil their financial aspirations to make an impact. That’s why we use the power of technology to deliver clients what they need, when they need it in a user‑friendly and personalised experience. We aim to deliver the world’s most user‑friendly and personalised trading and investment platform experience, which gives our clients exactly what they need to make more informed investment decisions.

Company benefits

• Continuously strives to improve the Saxo Experience and exceed our clients’ expectations.
• Always invests in the future
• Builds unrivalled platforms for seasoned and experienced investors and wholesale clients that provide real‑time access to global capital markets.
• Consistently wins the highest accolades for our platforms, products and services.

Our future

Own your future. So, if you’re up for the challenge of breaking down barriers in global financial markets, we’re always looking for ambitious and enthusiastic people who share our passion for clients, technology and innovation and can bring new perspectives to our diverse team. For more on our story, culture and identity, please read the Saxo Bank Foundation, written by our CEO and founder Kim Fournais. More about Saxo Bank