Senior Platform Engineer (Databricks)

ALTEN Sweden is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with strong expertise in Databricks, cloud platforms, and modern data engineering to join an exciting long-term assignment. You will be part of a highly skilled team developing and maintaining data platforms and pipelines that enable large-scale analytics, data science, and machine learning initiatives.
This role combines platform engineering, data engineering, cloud technologies, and data governance in a modern and data-driven environment.

About the role
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will:
Design, develop, and maintain scalable data platforms and data pipelines with a strong focus on Databricks.
Drive improvements to platform architecture, setup, and capabilities.
Develop and maintain robust ETL and data pipelines for large-scale operational data.
Design and implement data governance models, metadata management solutions, and data catalog capabilities.
Ensure high standards for data quality, security, compliance, and data discoverability.
Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for Databricks and cloud environments.
Build automated, reliable, and reproducible platform environments.
Collaborate with developers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and business stakeholders.
Translate technical and business requirements into scalable and production-ready data solutions.
Contribute to the continuous development, operation, and maintenance of the data platform.

Who You Are
We are looking for someone with:
Several years of experience as a Data Engineer, Platform Engineer, or a similar senior role.
Strong hands-on experience with Databricks and Apache Spark.
Experience working with cloud-based data platforms, preferably AWS.
Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
Experience designing, developing, and maintaining ETL and data pipelines.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar tools).
Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data quality, and data discoverability.
Experience building scalable, robust, and secure data platform solutions.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Meritorious
AWS certifications.
Databricks certifications.
Experience with Unity Catalog and Delta Lake.
Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments.
Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD practices.

What we offer you
Every employee is equally valuable in the success of ALTEN! We believe in growing together by offering opportunities, development and togetherness. ALTEN operates in several different industries, having a wide variety of assignments, coaching managers and training through ALTEN Academy, which means that it will always be possible to develop at ALTEN. Your wishes will guide your way forward.

As a consultant, you will get the genuine team feeling at your assignment but also a wonderful togetherness at ALTEN. Through our different internal networks, such as Women@ALTEN and ALTEN Sports you will get the opportunity to drive topics and activities that are close to your heart. At ALTEN, we think it's important to have a balance between work and spare time, which is why we offer three extra days off a year. We have a collective agreement and offer benefits like pension, insurances and wellness grants.

About ALTEN
ALTEN is one of Europe’s largest technology and IT consulting companies with over 57,000 employees in nearly 30 countries. Our engineers carry out complex and highly technical projects throughout the value chain of the most prestigious companies in all sectors, such as Automotive, Defense, Energy & Environment, Industry, Public services & Government and Life Sciences. In Sweden, we are about 1300 committed employees with 9 offices in 9 cities - from Lund in the south to Skellefteå in the north.

For the fifth year in a row, ALTEN has been named one of Sweden's most attractive employers by Karriärföretagen, an award for employers that offer unique career and development opportunities.

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