Senior Data Platform Engineer
Huhtamaki
- Location
- Hybrid (Espoo, Uusimaa)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
Huhtamaki, a global provider of sustainable packaging solutions, is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build and optimize its Microsoft Fabric data platform. The role focuses on developing reusable components, ingestion patterns, and outbound integrations to support enterprise data modernization and engineering automation.
Skills
Perks
- Hybrid Work
- Development opportunities
- Sustainable work mission
Full job details
Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet
We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.
You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.
We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.
Your opportunity
As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will work hands-on to build and continuously improve our shared Microsoft Fabric data platform and integration capabilities. You will develop and maintain reusable platform components, inbound connectivity and ingestion patterns that solution teams can adopt, and outbound data integrations using Azure Integration Services.
Working closely with architects, integration stakeholders and solution teams, you will translate architectural direction into secure, reliable and maintainable implementations. Your work will strengthen engineering automation, platform performance and cost efficiency, support platform modernization, and enable responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering.
Where you’ll be
This role is based at our Espoo, Finland Headquarters on a hybrid (4 days per week) basis.
What you'll be doing
- Platform administration and optimization. Administer and continuously improve the Microsoft Fabric platform, including capacity management, workload monitoring, performance optimization and cost-efficient resource utilization.
- Shared platform capabilities. Develop and maintain reusable platform components, frameworks, automation, templates and standardized engineering patterns that support multiple solution teams.
- Inbound connectivity. Build and maintain shared source-system connectivity capabilities and reusable ingestion patterns, enabling solution teams to bring data into the platform consistently and reliably using approved frameworks.
- Outbound data integrations azure integration services. Design, develop and maintain outbound data integrations using AIS, collaborating with integration stakeholders and consuming-system teams to deliver reliable data flows aligned with agreed integration standards and target architecture.
- CI/CD and engineering practices. Improve platform CI/CD and development practices, including Git/version control, code reviews, automated testing, deployment pipelines, service-principal-based deployments and consistent Dev/Test/Prod environments.
- Architecture, standards and guardrails. Implement and uphold agreed platform and integration architecture, standards and guardrails. Support solution teams in adopting approved capabilities and patterns and bring justified exceptions through architecture review.
- Security and access controls. Implement and maintain agreed security and access controls across platform components and integrations, in collaboration with architecture, infrastructure and security stakeholders.
- Developer enablement and operational readiness. Provide documentation, technical onboarding and practical engineering guidance so solution teams can use shared capabilities effectively. Ensure platform components and integrations are maintainable and ready for handover.
- Modernization and continuous improvement. Take ownership of assigned technical work in platform migrations, new capability rollouts and legacy decommissioning initiatives. Reduce technical debt, replace temporary workarounds and evaluate new capabilities.
- AI-assisted and agentic engineering. Contribute to the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices.
Technical stack
- Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouses, pipelines, notebooks, capacity administration and monitoring.
- Python, PySpark and SQL: Shared frameworks, ingestion and data processing.
- Azure Integration Services (AIS): Inbound connectivity and outbound data integrations.
- Integration technologies: REST APIs, authentication, source-system connectivity and reusable ingestion patterns.
- Git and Azure DevOps: Version control, pull requests, automated testing and CI/CD.
What you’ll bring to the role
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a related field.
- 7+ years’ experience working with enterprise-level data platforms or data warehouses.
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric (highly desirable).
- Experience with Azure Integration Services (desirable) or equivalent integration technologies, REST APIs and enterprise system integrations.
- Clear communication skills in English, including the ability to communicate effectively with the team.
- A willingness to help others and encourage colleagues.
What we offer in return
- A meaningful job in a global company: At Huhtamaki, we believe in protecting food, people and the planet. Our innovative and transformative solutions touch the daily lives of people everywhere.
- Development opportunities: We care for each other – and want our talent to thrive and develop.
- Responsible employer: Sustainability is embedded in everything we do. We believe diverse teams fuel innovation. We invest in fostering an environment where everyone is safe both psychologically and physically and where diversity and inclusion are promoted through day-to-day behaviours, which are reinforced by our policies and practices.
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.