Lead Data Engineer - DataOps & Cloud Pipelines

SAS - Scandinavian Airlines; Solna kommun; Hybrid; SEK 1,100,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel Perks

Health & Wellness

Discounts

Work Environment: Frösundavik office &

Convenient Commute

Job summary

SAS - Scandinavian Airlines is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to strengthen our data foundation, delivering scalable pipelines, data products, and integrations on a modern cloud platform. You will work with a Data Architect to standardize DataOps practices and production-ready solutions that drive business impact.

You will mentor data engineers, enforce testing and observability across the team, and collaborate with IT, cloud teams, and stakeholders to ensure security, governance, and quality in

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of hands-on data engineering experience, in a senior or lead role.
• Strong SQL and Python skills, with Spark or similar distributed processing.
• Experience building and operating cloud-based data pipelines in Azure (ADF, Databricks, Synapse).
• Solid data modelling and data warehouse/lake architecture knowledge.
• Experience with DataOps, version control, CI/CD, monitoring, and SLAs.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as ADF, Airflow, Prefect, Lakeflow, dbt.
• Strong mentoring, and collaborative communication to guide others.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and operation of scalable data pipelines, data products, and integrations.
• Establish and drive engineering standards for testing, documentation, observability, monitoring, SLAs, version control, and DataOps.
• Partner with the Data Architect to translate architectural direction into practical implementation patterns and reusable engineering standards.
• Lead code reviews and drive continuous improvement of engineering practices across the team.
• Mentor and support data engineers and DataOps engineers in modern tools, standards, and software engineering practices.
• Collaborate with architecture, data stewardship, IT, cloud teams, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet quality, security, governance and operational requirements.

Skills

SQL

Python

Spark

Data engineering

Mentoring

Communication

Collaboration

CI/CD

DataOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Databricks

Synapse

Airflow

Prefect

Lakeflow

dbt

Job description

SAS - Scandinavian Airlines is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to strengthen our data foundation, delivering scalable pipelines, data products, and integrations on a modern cloud platform. You will work with a Data Architect to standardize DataOps practices and production-ready solutions that drive business impact.

You will mentor data engineers, enforce testing and observability across the team, and collaborate with IT, cloud teams, and stakeholders to ensure security, governance, and quality in