Job Description
Are you ready to help accelerate our customers' journey towards a fossil free future? You will become part of Customer IT, the department that develops and operates specialized IT solutions to create value for our customers and enable them to become fossil free within one generation.
As our Platform Solution Designer, your expertise will be vital in architecting and building the innovative smart analytics platform that underpins this mission. If you are passionate about being both a high-level architect and a hands-on builder, and you want your skills to contribute directly to our fossil-free goal, we would like to hear from you!
Within Customer IT, you will join a group of skilled professionals dedicated to designing and implementing data solutions. Your mission is to act as the ultimate technical authority and a critical "player-coach" for our Business and Customer-facing data platform. You will balance your time between defining our long-term architectural vision and directly contributing to the platform's codebase. This is a unique opportunity to act as both a gatekeeper for technical excellence and a pioneer building the path to a future-ready platform.
Your tasks and responsibilities
- Writing high-quality, production-ready code for the platform's complex and critical components, leading the team by example.
- Owning and evolving the long-term architectural vision and roadmap for the data platform, making strategic decisions on technology adoption to ensure it enables our future business objectives.
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- Acting as the final technical authority for the platform, with the mandate to review, approve, or veto architectural designs to ensure alignment, prevent technical debt, and enforce standards.
- Driving innovation by researching, prototyping, and championing emerging technologies and methodologies (e.g., new Azure/Databricks services, data principles, FinOps).
- Mentoring engineers and architects, elevating the technical excellence of the entire organization through design sessions, workshops, and direct guidance.
You will interact daily with colleagues from across the organisation as well as external stakeholders. By sharing your knowledge openly and working together, you help shape a platform that benefits both our customers and society. Success in this role means delivering a platform that is secure, scalable, and cost-efficient—setting a standard others aspire to follow.
Qualifications
Qualifications
You are a seasoned Principal Engineer or Architect with a proven track record of both designing and building large-scale, distributed data platforms. Your deep, hands-on expertise in the Microsoft Azure data ecosystem (especially Databricks and Azure Data Factory), modern data architecture patterns, and DevOps culture enables you to bridge the gap between high-level strategy and deep technical implementation.
To succeed in this role, you additionally bring:
- A demonstrable track record of architecting and building complex data platforms, ideally in a business or customer-facing context.
- Senior-level programming skills in languages relevant to data engineering, with experience writing clean, production-grade code.
- Deep, practical understanding of data architecture patterns, data modelling and governance best practices.
- Proven experience with large-scale infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and driving a modern DevOps culture.
- The conviction and assertiveness to articulate, defend, and enforce architectural decisions with clarity, even when facing opposition.
- Natural technical leadership and a passion for mentoring and elevating the skills of the engineering organization.
- Fluency in English (spoken and written).
You get energised by continuous learning, challenging assumptions, and designing elegant, innovative, and robust solutions. You have a forward-thinking mindset that balances long-term vision with the practicalities of delivery. Enjoy being both a strategist and a builder, and believe fossil freedom is achieved through joint effort and technical excellence, we look forward to meeting you!
Additional Information
Our offer
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.
For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Marta Jura, marta.jura@vattenfall.com
We welcome your application in English no later than 15.01.2026. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website and that you refrain from submitting a cover letter with your application. You apply quickly and easily by answering screening questions and attaching your CV.
At Vattenfall, we value being active, positive, open, and safety-conscious. We are looking for employees who share our vision and can contribute to strengthening our corporate culture. We firmly believe that diversity helps build a more profitable and attractive company, and we strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity. Vattenfall actively works to ensure that all employees have the same opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnic or cultural background, gender identity, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or disability. Read more about how we work with diversity and inclusion here.
The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall.
Working at Vattenfall means working with critical societal infrastructure. Therefore, many of our positions are security-classified, and you may be required to fill a wartime posting. If this position is security-classified, a security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act. Any potential wartime posting will be based on the employment contract and the Total Defence Service Act.
We look forward to receiving your application!
