Data Lead

Sofigate; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation accrual

Shareholder program

Extended healthcare insurance

Wellness programme

Diversity and inclusion culture

Job summary

Sofigate is seeking a Data Lead to guide data-driven, business-focused initiatives for Nordic customers. You will lead delivery teams, align data strategy with business goals, and collaborate with data engineers and scientists to deliver measurable outcomes.

In this role you will shape governance, data ownership, and analytics workstreams, while adapting to customer environments and project methodologies to maximize value.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data migration, governance initiatives and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to translate business needs into data initiatives with measurable outcomes.
• Proven track record in data strategy, governance, and execution.
• Experience with AI-enabled data management and analytics projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead a delivery team and key data workstreams for customer engagements.
• Collaborate with customer reps, vendors, and Sofigate colleagues.
• Drive master data, governance or analytics projects and data products.
• Align data initiatives with business objectives and measurable value.
• Balance Waterfall and Agile delivery within customer environments.

Skills

Leadership

Data governance

AI mindset

Stakeholder management

Business-IT alignment

Job description

Would you like to join the leading business technology company in the Nordics? Do you speak both business and technology fluently? Are you passionate about turning data and AI into tangible business value? If yes, keep reading!

We are currently looking for Data Leads to grow our capabilities and support our customers in business-driven data and AI initiatives. In your assignments, you lead a delivery team and key data workstreams, working with customer representatives, vendors, and sometimes Sofigate colleagues. You might recognize yourself from titles such as Data Lead, Data Governance Lead, Master Data Manager, Migration Manager, Analytics Lead, or Data Project Manager.

What will you do

Typically, you could work with master data and data governance initiatives, solution renewal–related migrations, or analytics projects. In addition, some of our assignments focus on building something truly data-driven, such as enabling advanced analytics, AI/ML use cases, or data products, in close collaboration with data engineers and data scientists.

We also see AI transforming data management itself. From AI-powered data quality and governance to agentic AI solutions that automate data management activities, we are looking for people who are curious about these opportunities and can help customers turn them into real business value.

Your role goes beyond delivering technical solutions. You help customers connect their business objectives with data strategy, governance, and execution, ensuring that data initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.

The type of projects you work in can be influenced by you: you can either deepen your existing expertise or learn new topics to forge your own core skill set.

Projects can be delivered using either Waterfall or Agile and follow the Business Technology Standard (read more at www.managebt.org) or the methodology utilized in the customer environment. Either way, each project offers opportunities to learn, deliver tangible outcomes, and create real customer value.

What we expect from you

As our future Data Lead, you are passionate about achieving results with our customers and exceeding their expectations. You can quickly take ownership of a project or a data workstream and create a sense of confidence and clarity, so the customer knows they are in capable hands and moving toward their goals.

To succeed in this role, you:

• Bring strong leadership and management skills and actively develop them further
• Understand business drivers and can translate business needs into actionable data initiatives and measurable outcomes
• Thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy working with diverse stakeholders
• Are comfortable presenting to and engaging in discussions with senior management
• Bring structure to complex data topics by aligning stakeholders around data governance, ownership, decision-making, and ways of working
• Have an AI-native mindset: you actively explore and apply AI in your own work and recognize opportunities to transform traditional data management practices
• Bring fresh perspectives and ideas on business-driven data leadership and how emerging AI capabilities can create competitive advantage
• Are fluent in both Finnish and English due to our customer needs

You could already have previous experience in

• Leading data migration, master data, or data governance initiatives (e.g., data ownership, data quality management, policies, operating model, metadata management, and cross-functional collaboration)
• Delivering analytics / BI / data platform projects where data is transformed into insights and decision-making support
• Running data-intensive transformation projects where data is used to build something new, such as enabling AI/ML or data science use cases together with technical teams
• Applying AI or agentic solutions to data management, such as automating data quality processes, metadata management, data governance workflows, or other data-intensive activities
• Driving business-oriented data strategies and helping organizations identify and realize value from their data assets
• Working with different project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Portfolio Gate models)
• Operating at the intersection of business and IT
• Consulting experience

First and foremost, we look for people with the right attitude, curiosity, and passion for making a difference. We especially value candidates who can demonstrate their AI mindset through practical experiments, implemented solutions, or thought leadership on how AI is reshaping data management.

If you have an entrepreneurial mindset, are a strong team player, and can take responsibility for your work while building trust with customers, you might be the person we are looking for!

How we work

At Sofigate, we are involved in cutting-edge projects that are shaping the future. We have an international, vibrant, and fun culture with great openness and flexibility. We value every Sofigator and strive to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace, where everyone’s voice is heard, and where everyone can become the best versions of themselves. We value a healthy work-life balance and support you in maintaining it.

Growth is not just a corporate thing for us, it is personal. There is so much to explore and learn within our community, and together with our customers, that having a bit of fun is unavoidable.

What we offer:

• Challenging customer assignment opportunities, environment varying from large internationally operating companies to purposeful public organisations.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Full 2.5 days/month of vacation accrual starting from the beginning of your employment
• Shareholder program, which allows you to be a part owner in Sofigate
• Extended healthcare insurance and a wellness programme that is available for all employees

November 8, 2026.

About Sofigate

We are The Business Technology Company with the fastest time-to-value in the gen AI era. We achieve that by combining our transformation expertise with low/no-code platforms and generative AI. That’s how we create sustainable customer value. In practice, that means helping our customers to develop the interplay between business and technology: to design, build and implement transformations and business-friendly technology solutions, like Salesforce, ServiceNow and SAP.

As leaders of Business Technology management, we are the founder of the Business Technology Forum, the developer of the Business Technology Standard. Our team of 800+ professionals based in 8 offices across 5 countries: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, and Poland, are always ready to help, both our colleagues and our customers. At the very core of our being are our values: dare, care and grow. We dare to challenge the market, foster a community that cares about our people and drive growth with a customer centric business vision.