Software Engineer

For our client Volvo Cars we are looking for a Data Engineer with excellent Database Development skills.
At Volvo Cars Safety Centre, 200 highly skilled professionals strive every day to make the world a safer place for vehicle occupants, their loved ones, and the people around them. Covering the Safety and Durability attributes, they bravely lead the way for safety in and support of the company’s strategic direction: Freedom to move in a Personal, Sustainable and Safe way.

The team works primarily with real world safety data to generate a deep understand of crash and injury causation mechanisms.
This knowledge builds the foundation for requirements on future safety features and functions in upcoming car development programs.
It is provided to the car programs through data analysis and insights that support the engineering of world leading products.
The work is performed in close collaboration with Volvo Cars digital organisation that provides them the infrastructure for storing and analysing data effectively.

Main responsibilities
Design databases and data products for business solutions, ensuring usability, scalability, security, compliance, performance, and reliability.
Migrate and refactor legacy databases in normalized data structure.
Demonstrate database technical functionality, such as performance tuning, backup and recovery, monitoring.
Create and maintain solution/technical architecture in the cloud.
Communicate and collaborate with other parts of the company and ensure that best practices are used for designing and documenting solutions.
A strong passion for data engineering and foundations in creating robust data processing pipelines using python programming language.
Top Skills
Strong ability to write advanced SQL scripts, procedures, functions.
Knowledge of using python programming language for data processing and data operations purposes.
Strong understanding of various data migration utilities such as Azure Data Factor, DMA, SSIS packages, bacpac etc. preventing any data loss.
Extensive hands-on experience implementing data migration and data processing using Azure services: Azure Storage, Azure SQL DB/DW, Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Analysis Service, Azure Databricks Data Catalog, Azure DevOps, CI/CD etc.
Prior experience in moving and refactoring on-premises SQL databases in Azure SQL.
Experience with cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations.
Understanding of API design principles.
Strong communication skills to coordinate and align requests for database feature development and explain solutions to audiences of different backgrounds.

Merital
Work experience with vehicle safety data and understanding of crash prevention and injury protection principles.
Familiarity with databases at Volvo Cars such as ODEN, GRIP, and DRO.

Personal qualities
A passion for data engineering and analysis.
Structured way of working, and good documentation skills.
A self-driven and result oriented team player.
Willingness to learn and improve.