Lead Data Platform Engineer

Technology Co; Espoo; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Good occupational health care

Leisure time benefits (ePassi)

Office presence 3 days a week

Job summary

Neste is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer in Espoo to guide the Data Platform team within the Data & IT Platforms unit. You will drive architecture, data models, cloud infra, and enterprise standards to deliver scalable, cost-efficient data solutions.

Join a global leader in renewable fuels, contributing to a platform transformation that enables AI and GenAI capabilities while maintaining operational excellence and strong security practices. Fluent English required.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering / computer science or data-centric fields.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and data modeling concepts.
• Experience with data warehousing and modeling methods (Data Vault 2.0, Kimball/Inmon).
• Familiar with Snowflake and Azure cloud services.
• Proven track record as a technical team lead in large enterprises.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Azure DevOps tooling.
• Python experience and building APIs with FastAPI.
• Experience enabling data platforms for AI/LLM tasks.
• English fluency, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary technical point of contact for a team of internal developers and external partners, setting coding standards.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Enterprise, and Data Architects to ensure scalable, feasible data models and infrastructure.
• Define standardized patterns for ingestion, transformation, and discovery across the platform.
• Drive Operational Excellence with DevOps practices and predictable deployments.
• Balance cost management with UX requirements in engineering solutions.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

CI/CD

Python

Team lead

LLM skills

Data warehouse

APIs (FastAPI)

Education

Master's degree in engineering / computer science

Tools

Azure DevOps

Snowflake

DBT

FastAPI

Job description

Location: Espoo, FI

Country/Region: FI

Job Area: Information Technology

Business Unit: Processes, Data & IT

Are you looking for a career in an inspiring, global environment where your expertise makes a difference? At Neste, you will be working for the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, which enable our customers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Lead Data Platform Engineer

to join our Data Platform team within the Data & IT Platforms unit in Espoo. Are you ready to develop a next generation platform with us at Neste? The Neste Data Platform is undergoing a transformation. We are continuing our competitive edge on data, to even better understand the customers, markets and competitors, while enabling scaling & productivity leaps via AI and GenAI possibilities. Your role as a member of the team is to ensure that the data platform can grow to support the needs of Neste Business Architecture while continuously improving both user experience and operational excellence. Develop and deploy solutions that integrate key aspects of operational excellence, performance efficiency, and cost optimization. The focus is on ensuring systems are designed, managed, and evolved in a way that delivers predictable, high-quality, and cost-efficient results. Together with your expertise, we can do meaningful work to drive Neste forward.

Reasons to join

We operate in an inspiring and evolving business environment as a global leader in renewable fuels. We contribute to Neste’s success by living our values every day: we care, we have courage, we cooperate. We prioritize safety at all times and in every location. We strive to create a positive and impactful work environment. Transformation brings new possibilities and fosters our courage and curiosity. As a global company, we support personal development with versatile learning and career opportunities. Collaboration is key, and we believe in flexible, smart ways of working. We work at the office at least three days a week to ensure seamless teamwork and a sense of belonging.

In addition, our benefits for employees in Finland include, for example, a personnel fund as part of the overall remuneration, good occupational health care, a membership in a sickness or health insurance fund and leisure time accident insurance. We also support leisure time activities, e.g. by offering benefits for sports and culture (ePassi).

More about the job

Your role in our team

Be the primary technical point of contact for a team of internal developers and external partners, setting the coding standards, conducting deep-dive code reviews, and aligning the team on architectural decisions.

Act as the primary engineering partner for Cloud, Enterprise, and Data Architects. You will collaborate tightly with them to ensure that data models, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise standards are technically feasible, scalable, and optimized for performance.

Define standardized patterns for ingestion, transformation, and discovery, translating complex business requirements into automated and observable platform capabilities.

Drive Operational Excellence: Champion in a DevOps culture ensuring predictable deployments by empowering development and operations teams to work collaboratively, share responsibility, and continuously improve system design and processes.

Drive Efficiency & ROI: Establish technical benchmarks that align with business UX requirements while maintaining a rigorous cost-management discipline to ensure all engineering solutions maximize return on investment.

You will work closely with different kinds of SME’s like data architects, data/ML engineering, analysts, cloud specialist, data platform lead, security, business stakeholders, IT Solution and Enterprise Architects to identify old and new data related needs and solutions. Our work combines accountability, cooperation, and the desire to develop and renew. Working safely at all times is essential to all of us. The best combination to succeed in this role.

The best combination to succeed in this role

Master's degree in e.g. engineering, computer science, data-centric engineering.

Strong proficiency in SQL.

Experience in data modeling (incl. Data Vault 2.0 and/or Kimball/Inmon methodologies).

Familiar with Snowflake & Azure, including well-architected frameworks and their application to data & AI platforms.

Mastering of CI/CD concepts and tooling, primarily Azure DevOps, as applied to data platforms.

Proven experience as technical team lead in complex large enterprise ecosystems.

Working knowledge of Python, including building API’s with FastAPI and developing Snowflake Snowpark procedures.

Familiar with core Azure services such as Private Endpoints, Log Analytics Workspaces, and Storage Accounts.

Experience creating skills for LLM-based data tasks.

Experience with Agile Data Engine (ADE) or Data Build Tool (DBT), or other cloud data warehouse automation tools.

Other strengths we value

A strong hunger and curiosity to work with complex initiatives and drive these forwards with a high level of independence.

Courage to challenge and scrutinise the development initiatives to deliver a product or service to a customer, focusing also on eliminating waste.

The ability to grasp complex problems from multiple viewpoints, looking at things from different stakeholders' perspective.

Understanding of how to best utilise solutions with data to innovate the customer/frontline journeys.

Strong self-starter with ability to lead and think outside of the box: ability to gain trust and mandate from stakeholders of all seniority by showing strategic thinking and understanding of the bigger picture over details seen as advantage.

Fluent English skills are a must, both written and oral.

Neste in brief

Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) is the world's leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), with production on three continents. The company’s renewables production capacity is expected to reach 6.8 million tons annually in 2027. Neste also produces high-quality oil products at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. The company has a network of nearly 1,000 fuel stations with expanding service offering, such as EV charging, in Finland and in the Baltics. Neste’s strategy focuses on growth in renewable fuels, which help its customers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Neste is included in many international indices for its sustainability performance. In 2025, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 19.0 billion. Read more: neste.com.