IT & Strategy Talent Programme - Data Engineer & BI Consultant

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Job Description

Now you can shape the path towards fossil free living. We are searching for talented individuals to join us on our journey towards fossil free living. Individuals that challenge the way we think, lead us down new paths and contribute to solving the biggest challenge of humankind – climate change. Is this you?   

By applying for the IT & Strategy Talent Programme you can become 1 of 23 talents working towards that goal. Each of the 23 positions in the program is unique and has its own specific responsibilities and challenges. This is a two-year programme with a strong focus on your development. You will have an individual development plan aiming at a targeted competence profile after two years and building blocks with learning goals towards that target. As part of the programme, you can look forward to assignments/rotations aimed at giving you a chance to really get into a project and deliver value. 

Your role as a Data Engineer & BI Consultant 

As a Data Engineer & BI Consultant you will be a member of one of our DevOps teams. Our works start with ideation and framing tangible requirements and continues with designing, creating, and operating solutions based on the MS Azure technology stack. In doing so, we as IT partner up with our colleagues from the various engineering departments within Vattenfall on a daily basis. The tasks and projects are varied and so are the data, the use cases and the technology. For instance our solutions have a direct impact on fuel consumption in the district heating grid of Berlin based on live Smart Meter data evaluation, optimize maintenance cycles of turbines and under water cables via predictive maintenance or allow for cross country streaming data analytics on Hydro powerplant sensor data.

Within the team, the Data Engineer & BI Consultant is a front runner who is in continuous dialogue with the experts and solution designers in Vattenfall’s various departments to build, maintain and optimize state of the art analytics solutions. The success of the Data Engineer is integral to the success of Vattenfall in making fossil free living possible within one generation.

Your daily activities:

• Design, build and maintain data lake solutions to share data within Vattenfall & with external stakeholders
• Implement traditional database & DWH concepts to structure the data in the cloud to provide self-service reporting and machine learning solutions (e.g. using PowerBI or Azure ML Studio)
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT tracks as well as APIs to ensure that the data lands where it is needed
• Work with streaming data analytics together with business stakeholders to gather insights and enable improved decision making
• Understand requirements and translate them into IT solutions
• Participate in roadmap discussions and workshops with the business stakeholders to understand and participate in the business journey
• Work closely together with your fellow team mates in an agile way on a daily basis, i.e., with architects, requirement engineers, data engineers, data scientists and business specialists
• Provide expert advice both internally in the team and to various other departments in Vattenfall
• Proactively adapt value adding solutions to the needs of other departments

Qualifications

Who are you? 

You want to drive digital innovations and you are a firm believer of using your skills to tackle climate change. We believe you are a brilliant networker, a critical thinker, a resourceful innovator and a keen learner who always keeps an ear to the ground to catch up on developments.

• Graduate, or up to two years’ work experience 
• Strong background in IT (software) engineering 
• Keen to ‘learn by doing’ 
• Able to handle a steep learning curve 

As a Talent - Data Engineer & BI Consultant you recognize yourself in the following: 

• You recently graduated or already have up two years of working experience and you have a university degree, ideally in (energy) engineering or IT or a related field
• You are drawn to inspiring people by example and can proof that by means of recent extracurricular activities and / or successful projects
• You have a genuine interest in what is happening on the energy market and through that gained sound understanding in the field of (sustainable) energy engineering
• You possess a strong technical background with an understanding of how analytics solutions are brought into life by means of preferably but not exclusively Python and SQL
• You have clear understanding about the concepts of Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Engineering and Data Science
• Proven understanding of agile ways of working (ideally with a common framework like Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, DevOps, etc.)
• Proficiency in spoken and written English is a must have. Dutch, German and/or Swedish are a plus

You are our ideal talent if you…  

• possess strong communication skills and you have a distinct drive to ask questions
• learn new tools and continuously improve your soft and hard skills is your second nature and you embrace working on new topics and projects every day
• think about data as a massive asset to leverage & are familiar with data sharing concepts
• have an agile mindset and apply a hands-on mentality to solve complex issues
• feel personally committed to the goal setting and delivery of the team
• have a teaching mindset and you love to share your knowledge within the team
• are able to manage diverse task and to set priorities
• have a pro-active mindset and good sense for others will drive colleagues to perform with you
• have the instinct to translate strategy into tangible actions and concrete next steps and you truly understand what digital transformation is all about
• are not afraid to drink a cup of coffee with our stakeholders

Location 

The Analytics Solutions team has members in the Vattenfall offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg and Stockholm. You can choose to be based in either of these locations. We provide solutions to Vattenfall departments primarily in Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands, so travelling between our office locations to meet up with your colleagues and stakeholders for workshops, ideations and events can be part of the job.

Additional Information

Our offer 

The IT & Strategy Talent Program is a kickstart to your career within Vattenfall. It will give you the opportunity to visit different parts of our organization, e.g., in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Denmark. There are planned weeks including personal development and internal leadership development from our Vattenfall Management Institute. Each position comes with a competitive salary and an excellent remuneration package

Application process 

We welcome your application in English, including resume and cover letter. Last day to apply is February 9th, 2023. The selection period starts in the middle of February, followed by online tests and interviews in March and April. The recruitment process will be finalized around the end of April. The last step will be a pre-employment screening. The starting date of the Strategy and IT Talent Program will be 1st September 2023.  

We are hosting an online event on the 26th of January where the Team Managers, Trainees from previous years and a Program Manager will answer all of your questions about the application, role and programme content. You can read more on how to attend here. If your question is still not answered, please contact your responsible recruiter. 

We look forward to your application! If you have any questions regarding the Talent Program in general, please check our FAQ page. For further information about the position or the recruitment process, please contact responsible recruiter Marius Gläßge (marius.glaessge@vattenfall.de). 

Trade union representatives in Sweden (IT) are Sofi Wadström (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.  

Our organization 

At Vattenfall you can free your superpowers! We are one of the European market leaders in the generation of renewable energy and are primarily active in Scandinavia, Germany, Denmark, UK and the Netherlands. We take our responsibility seriously and together we are making the change towards fossil freedom. Our goal is to enable a fossil-free living within one generation. We are a dynamic company with an international focus and a social face at the heart of society. Diversity and inclusion is in everything we do, 
Read more about our work with diversity. 

We look forward to your application!