Big Data Engineer / AI

About the job
Our division ÅF Industrial & Digital Solutions is growing with both people skills and exciting projects, and we are again ready to strengthen our team AI, Data Science and Cognitive Computing with a skilled Big Data Engineer.
The recent advancements in digital capabilities allow various industries to enter a new era of business opportunities. Whether it is a digitalized customer experience that brings more control for the end user or it is an IoT platform that facilitate remote monitoring of distributed sensors, the digital revolution is present all along the industry value chain. ÅF has a strong position in the market and at its AI, Data Science and Cognitive Computing team we are committed to continue delivering first class solutions to our customers. We have customers in many different industries, ranging from automotive to Energy and utility. Geographically, this means that you can get to work both in-house at our headquarters in Solna or at the customers site.
More concretely, you will be building cutting edge data pipelines using big data and cloud technologies to support advanced data analytics and machine learning. You will work together with skilled data scientists from the team both at remote and local customers.

Who are you?
You have a good understanding of the fundamental concepts in big data and distributed systems. You excel at communicating these concepts to customers and team members. And you are particularly fast at learning new skills. You have at least two years of experience in big data or cloud with a degree in IT, Computer Science or equivalent fields. As a consultant you should master both working independently and as a team member. We take your personal qualities into great consideration.
Some of your core competences are in the following areas: 

Knowledge on cloud platforms like Azure, AWS or GCP
Fundamental understanding of distributed systems
Experience with Docker and/or VM based software deployment
Big data processing engines such as Spark or Flink
Working with semi-structured and unstructured data such as .json or parquet
Experience in integration and orchestration of scalable data pipelines (e.g. NIFI, ADF, Airflow)
Experienced in building, maintaining and scaling Data Infrastructures
Good programming skills across a number of languages, for instance Java, C#, Python
Good verbal and written communication skills are important in English. Swedish is a plus.

Supporting competences that can be highly appreciated include:

Experience with Hive, SparkSQL etc.
T-SQL, Data Modelling, ETL pipelines and general database concepts
Business intelligence (BI) tools such as Tableau or Power BI
Experienced in performing Data Quality Survey

We offer
The position is for our AI, Data Science and Cognitive Computing team, today consisting of 11 colleagues and led by Azad Noorani.
We are looking for someone who wants to be part of ÅF’s success story. Are you passionate about technology development? Do you like to work together to find the best solution? Then we can offer you career opportunities in a modern workplace with challenging assignments and exciting projects all over the world. The ÅF Group is ranked as one of Sweden’s most popular employer among engineers.
At ÅF you will be involved in developing innovative and sustainable solutions within infrastructure, energy and industry. We are always looking for the sharpest skills that can create a future society together with us. We hope you will learn as much from us as we will learn from you.

About the company
ÅF Pöyry is an international leader within engineering, design and advisory services. We create solutions to support our customers worldwide to act on sustainability as well as the global trends of urbanisation and digitalisation. We are more than 16,000 devoted experts within the fields of infrastructure, industry and energy operating across the world to create sustainable solutions for the next generation.

Making Future.