Data Platform Engineer

Finnair Plc; Vantaa; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Finnair Plc in Vantaa, Finland seeks a Data Platform Engineer to design reliable data tools for customer, commercial, and operational domains. You will help lead architecture, ingestion, transformation, and workflow orchestration across data domains.

You will collaborate with data engineers, drive standardization, and explore new tech to improve reliability, security, and performance while enabling faster data delivery and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in data engineering or data platform development.
• Experience in change management in a complex technical environment.
• Interest in airline industry.
• Excellent communication skills and positive mindset to work in a social, friendly and international team.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Previous experience in at least some of our stack.

Responsibilities

• Design reliable, secure, and user-friendly data tools for Finnair’s customer, commercial, and operational domains.
• Lead architecture, infrastructure, and tooling development of Data Warehouse, Data Ingestion & Transformation Tools, and Workflow Orchestration.
• Collaborate with data engineers on shared practices and tooling across data domains.
• Democratize data engineering and analytics work with easy-to-use tools and automation.
• Standardize patterns for ingesting, transforming and orchestrating data to improve reliability and security.
• Investigate new technologies and optimize data flows for faster delivery and cost efficiency.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platform development

AWS

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Python

SQL

Change management

Communication

Tools

PowerBI

CDK (Typescript)

Spark (Scala)

Lambda

Job description

Finnair is a diverse community of professionals who work ambitiously with a big heart and commitment. A strong safety culture is our priority and at the core of our everyday work, never taking it for granted. We are committed to doing our share in solving the climate challenge by determinedly following our science-based pathway to decarbonize our operations. We find meaning in our purpose: With our heart in Finland, we make every journey better, today and tomorrow. Our values – Always Safe, Customer at Heart and Stronger Together– guide us in everything we do.

We are now looking for a DATA PLATFORM ENGINEER to work on our Data and Platform Engineering team in Vantaa, Finland. In this role, your job is to design reliable, secure, and user-friendly data tools for Finnair’s customer, commercial, and operational domains. You will be one of the leaders of the architecture, infrastructure and tooling development of our Data Warehouse, Data Ingestion & Transformation Tools, and Workflow Orchestration. You will learn the different aspects of our customer, commercial, and operational landscape. You will also work together with data engineers on shared practices and tools between different data domains.

You will help us:

• Democratize data engineering and analytics work by designing easy-to-use tools and automating manual work.
• Make our data flows more reliable and secure by standardizing the patterns for ingesting, transforming and orchestrating data.
• Deliver data faster by investigating new technologies and common performance bottlenecks.
• Be more cost-efficient by making smart design choices and reacting to anomalies.
• Encourage collaboration by sharing common engineering practices and reusable tooling across data domains.
• Create a strong foundation for Finnair’s future analytics and AI use cases.

From you, we wish:

• Solid experience in data engineering or data platform development.
• Experience in change management in a complex technical environment.
• Interest in airline Industry.
• Excellent communication skills and positive mindset to work in a social, friendly and international team.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Previous experience in at least some of our stack (see below).

Our stack:

• Platforms: AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Alation, PowerBI
• AWS Analytical Services: Glue, EMR, Airflow (MWAA), Firehose
• AWS Infra: S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild
• Languages & Frameworks: CDK (Typescript), Python, SQL, Spark (Scala)
• Data Model: Dimensional Modeling, OBT

Please note that the hiring process includes a pre-employment security clearance and a drug test.

Why Join Finnair?

At Finnair, You become part of One Crew working together to make every journey better — today and tomorrow. Our values — Always Safe, Customer at Heart, and Stronger Together – guide how we work, make decisions, and support each other every day. We offer meaningful work with real impact, where your contribution helps shape the future of aviation, digital services, and sustainable travel. Collaboration, trust, and respect are part of everyday work, and people are encouraged to take ownership and grow. You’ll join a community where diverse perspectives are valued, continuous learning is supported, and development happens together — not alone.

We are committed to creating a safe work environment where all our people can thrive and succeed. We cherish diversity and strive to employ people with different backgrounds and experiences, to bring together multiple views to foster our business success. According to our employee survey, respecting diversity is at a high level in our work community. You are welcome to join Finnair as your authentic self.

Finnair is a network airline that specialises in passenger and cargo traffic between Europe, North America and Asia. It also offers package tours under its Aurinkomatkat-Suntours brand. Finnair offers direct flights to approximately 40 countries and over 100 destinations.