Are you passionate about data engineering and developing data products that enable business decisions with large financial and strategic impact? Do you want to take lead on helping our team define what good data products and delivery flows look like? If so, we want you to join our team as a Senior Digital Engineer! Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position

As our new Senior Data Engineer, you will support the development and professionalisation of our data foundation in the BI & Analytics team, which supports Finance teams across all of Product Supply, Quality, and IT (PSQIT). You will be the key driver for establishing new ways of working and best practices with support and involvement from rest of team. We are ready to take the next step on our data journey.

As a Senior Digital Engineer at Novo Nordisk, you will:

• Design, develop, test and maintain robust data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate data workflows.
• Utilise Databricks to build scalable data solutions and optimize performance.
• Ensure data quality, integrity and security across all data engineering processes.
• Establish and promote best practices for version control using git.
• Collaborate with finance teams to understand data requirements and deliver actionable insights.
• Mentor and guide data engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies to drive innovation within the team.

While we already have several business-critical data products and models to maintain and improve, we are also a small department on a big change journey. We therefore invite you to take on a key responsibility in the ongoing development and maintenance of our data foundation. We work in product teams in an agile setup and our aim is to have clear priorities, collaborative processes and curious minds.

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed, we expect you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, complemented by a minimum of 5 years of experience in data engineering. A master’s degree is preferred.
• Extensive experience with git and managing version control in a collaborative environment.
• Proven track record of implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency with Databricks and its ecosystem.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and technologies.
• Experience with agile methodologies and digital transformation initiatives.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Domain leadership experience, i.e. the capability to mentor and guide team members.
• Fluency in English.

It will be considered an advantage, if you have experience with:

• Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate)
• Fabric (Particularly PowerBI)
• No-code, low-code tools like Alteryx

As a person, you are curious and always looking to learn from others. As a colleague, you thrive on working closely with the team to develop great new data products. And as an informal knowledge leader, you are comfortable with having a clear voice and the responsibility for helping our team improve overall data landscapes and -flows behind our intelligence products. You are focused and structured, enjoy being part of a diverse team, and you are passionate about learning and applying the latest trends in data intelligence.

About the Department

You will join the PSQIT BI & Analytics Team in Finance, consisting of analysts, developers and BI partners with finance acumen and focus on digitalization.

Our ambition is to empower business leaders to make fact-based decisions. Our unique understanding of Finance function, finance processes and productivity data allows us to generate data-driven insights for business users, to develop scalable and efficient BI solutions and intelligence products with robust data models, and finally to create intuitive dashboards and reports that help our customers and stakeholders monitor, guide and improve the overall business performance of Product Supply at Novo Nordisk.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

For any questions regarding the position please contact Jan Voetmann at JQXV@Novonordisk.com.

For any questions regarding the process, please contact Andreas Bjaaland Gersel at UAEG@Novonordisk.com

Deadline

5th January, 2024

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV.

To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

Please note that only applications in English will be considered

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.