DATA ENGINEER WITH AN INTEREST IN THE GREEN ENERGY TRANSITION

Do you want to take part in driving the green energy transition in Europe towards a fully carbon-neutral, sustainable energy system? Are you a data engineer with a flair for IT integrations and reporting, who is curious, open-minded, proactive and enjoy working in an explorative and collaborative way? Do you want to work together with power engineers, IT experts and developers mining the gold hidden in our data and explaining its value to a broad range of stakeholders?

We are looking for a data engineer to join our Information management team. Are you the one we are looking for?

Join Nordic RCC, a fast-developing company providing regional power system planning data and security analysis to support the national Transmission System Operators (TSOs) of Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark to ensure the efficient operation of the Nordic Power System and high security of power supply at any time.

Job description

The Information management team supports the business through development, implementation and regular publication of reports on a broad range of business aspects such as data, process and service quality. In addition, the team also performs a number of ad-hoc data related tasks within the areas of data provision, data related issue resolution and general data governance.

As a data engineer on the Information management team, you will collaborate with power engineers, IT specialists and application developers gathering insights and driving innovation to improve our processes. Your role will involve identifying and consolidating data and support the engineers in turning data and analyses into reports useful at all levels of the organization. The work is highly explorative and dynamic. It is therefore important that you have a proactive, innovative mindset, and are ready to challenge status quo and approach issues in a new way. With a combination of programming, data engineering and -processing skills, you will play a crucial role in shaping our approach to business challenges and in raising awareness about the quality of our data, processes and services.

Your primary tasks and areas of responsibility:

1. Identify, design and build data pipelines for analytics, reporting and ad-hoc testing activities
2. Identify, develop and drive KPIs and reporting initiatives, in collaboration with power engineers
3. Design, develop and improve data visualization in reporting across all Nordic RCC services and departments
4. Work together with application developers and engineers to develop tools for reporting and report design
5. Translate user reporting needs into clear and informative reports
6. Support senior management reporting needs, and interpret data for decision making processes
7. Participate in projects and initiatives to professionalize Nordic RCC data usage, improve data quality and drive digitalization
8. Service the business with response to ad-hoc data requests
9. Participate in design, development and implementation of a Nordic RCC Data catalogue, data lineage creation and implementation of data governance in general
10. Support the business in definition and creation of new data sets
11. Support and maintenance of data handling SQL databases performing various data transformation, processing and packaging tasks
12. Liaise with the TSO data and integration resources on data management issues in order to find the optimal solution to business problems
13. Liaise with the Nordic RCC domain experts such as the Data Architect, the Release and Integration Manager, the Infrastructure Manager, the Lead Developer etc. to ensure optimal usage of resources and optimal solutions to technical or business issues related to IT system operation
14. Participate in Test and Deploy processes as needed

Skills and experience

The ideal candidates will most likely have:

• A master’s degree in data science/management, statistics, mathematics, computer science or related field – or substantial work experience equaling the skill set obtained from such studies
• Experience working as an IT developer, data architect, business intelligence expert or similar, preferably in a relevant industry

Additionally, you should have one or several of below qualifications:

• Data visualization expertise
• Proficiency in Excel macros, Python and SQL
• IT application development skills
• IT integration management skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• A proactive mindset with willingness to challenge status quo and to explore new approaches
• Strong teamwork, problem-solving and communication skills
• Knowledge of the energy sector and power systems are an advantage, but not a requirement

Additional information

You will report to the team lead of the Information management team, which is part of the Data and Analytics department at the Nordic RCC.

You should expect limited traveling activities to the TSOs in Finland (Helsinki), Norway (Oslo), Sweden (Stockholm) and in Denmark (Fredericia). Travelling activities will not exceed 20 days per year.

An international and flexible working environment

You will join a team of competent, diverse and enthusiastic colleagues. We are currently 22 nationalities with more than 30% women and all ages. You will also at times work in teams with colleagues from the Nordic TSOs either in virtual teams or in physically.

The Data & Analytics department is a recently established department with expertise in data architecture, reporting, data science and power system engineering. We are now hiring an additional data expert to increase our ability to deliver data insights and quality improvement to our services. It is a small department with a young, enthusiastic, and curious team with an informal work atmosphere where you can be sure to make an impact.

Your daily workplace will be in our newly furnished office premises in Copenhagen Towers, Ørestad. We are offering workplace flexibility to ensure a healthy work-life balance, including the possibility for working from home some of your worktime, however, to support social relation between colleagues and the collaborative nature of our work, physical presence in the office is expected most days.

Our values of fellowship, curiosity, respect, and transparency have been defined by all employees. They identify how we behave and shape the way we work together, and we expect you to see yourself in them.

Application deadline and contact information

Please apply online as soon as possible (in English) and no later than 15th of August 2024. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis.

If you have any questions, please contact Emmy Koefoed, Head of Data and Analytics, at +45 3093 4541(vacation 12^th July to 12^th August).

The job requires security clearance which will be facilitated by Nordic RCC.