Technical Lead, Scaled Data & Platform Engineering

Novo Holdings A/S; København; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Holdings is seeking a Technical Lead Data & Platform Engineer to evolve, build, and maintain our data platform. You will architect robust, scalable, and secure solutions with hands-on delivery, collaborating closely with the Head of Data & Analytics to drive priorities forward.

The role blends technical depth with stakeholder collaboration and ownership, requiring 5+ years in data engineering and a MSc/PhD in a related field. International experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data and Platform Engineering.
• MSc or PhD in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science or similar.
• Experience in international environments is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of data pipelines and products using Azure, Databricks, and dbt.
• Manage infrastructure provisioning and deployments with Terraform and Azure DevOps.
• Implement CI/CD workflows, version control, and automation with Git and Azure DevOps.
• Develop and maintain data transformations, models, and orchestration in Databricks (UnityCatalog, Autoloader).
• Build and deploy Python applications and PySpark data processing solutions.
• Ensure data modelling best practices across structured and unstructured sources.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Product mindset

Problem solving

Curious mind

Team collaboration

Education

MSc or PhD in Engineering/Math/CS

Tools

Azure

Databricks

UnityCatalog

Autoloader

Terraform

dbt

Python

PySpark

SQL

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

Novo Holdings is seeking a Technical Lead Data & Platform Engineer to evolve, build, and maintain our data platform. You will architect robust, scalable, and secure solutions with hands-on delivery, collaborating closely with the Head of Data & Analytics to drive priorities forward.

The role blends technical depth with stakeholder collaboration and ownership, requiring 5+ years in data engineering and a MSc/PhD in a related field. International experience is a plus.