Senior Data Platform Engineer: Data Mesh & Pipelines

Aira; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Aira is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Platform team in Stockholm. You will help build, scale and operate the data platform that teams rely on to create products, make decisions and run day‑to‑day operations.

The role blends strategic thinking with hands‑on engineering, balancing architecture discussions with practical delivery. You will influence how data is governed, served and consumed across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in data engineering for production systems.
• Knowledge of data mesh and platform architectures.
• Experience with streaming data pipelines and batch processing.

Responsibilities

• Build, improve and maintain Aira's data platform.
• Develop and operate batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Work with domain teams to evolve data serving pipelines.
• Help teams own and manage their data assets through our Data Mesh approach.
• Enable analytics engineers and domain experts to build data products, self‑service analytics and data science solutions.
• Make it easier for teams to build, run and maintain data products.
• Help teams avoid solving the same problem in ten different ways.
• Improve reliability, governance, observability and platform performance.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and the long‑term direction of the platform.
• Explore new technologies and approaches when they solve real problems.

Skills

Data engineering

Data Mesh

Infrastructure as Code

Kafka streaming

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

Python

SQL

dbt

Terraform

GitHub Actions

dlt

Job description

Aira is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Platform team in Stockholm. You will help build, scale and operate the data platform that teams rely on to create products, make decisions and run day‑to‑day operations.

The role blends strategic thinking with hands‑on engineering, balancing architecture discussions with practical delivery. You will influence how data is governed, served and consumed across the organisation.