Senior Data Engineer — Build Scalable Analytics Pipelines

Grit Scales Ab; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous annual vacation (Sweden)”},{

Job summary

Grit Scales AB is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data platforms powering analytics and data products. You will own data pipelines end-to-end, collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to turn raw data into reliable datasets.

You will mentor junior engineers, shape data architecture, and contribute to governance, security, and best practices across data systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with complex data models.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift etc.).
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).
• Experience building batch and/or streaming pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data reliability and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Develop and optimise data warehouses and data lakes.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance.
• Work with stakeholders to translate business needs into data solutions
• Implement data modelling for analytics and reporting use cases
• Optimise queries, storage and compute costs.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting for data systems.
• Enforce data governance, security, and access controls.
• Mentor junior data engineers and review code.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical standards.
• Enforce data governance, security, and access controls.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Data reliability

Performance tuning

End-to-end ownership

Mentoring

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Grit Scales AB is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data platforms powering analytics and data products. You will own data pipelines end-to-end, collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to turn raw data into reliable datasets.

You will mentor junior engineers, shape data architecture, and contribute to governance, security, and best practices across data systems.