Engineering Team Lead to Advanced Analytics and AI Department

Are you passionate about advanced analytics, AI and data engineering? Do you want to lead our engineering team in providing state-of-the-art data solutions that enable us to deliver insights and models that drive Handelsbanken forward in a data-driven way? Then you should apply for the position as Engineering Team Lead and help us in our mission - to be a leader in using data, advanced analytics and AI to deliver superior products, service, and experience to our customers!

Our Team
As a key part of delivering on our mission we have set out to build brand new analytics platforms both on prem and in the Microsoft Azure cloud suite. Our engineering team works closely with other teams throughout the bank in an environment characterized by initiative, collaboration, and innovation to tackle business challenges by predicting outcomes, understanding complex data relationships and constructing models that contribute to a better experience for our customers. Together we are the tech savvy engineers who enable a customer-centric way of designing and building our analytics and data platforms.

Your Role
You will work in a cross-functional engineering team together with data scientists and business analysts to implement use cases identified for and by the business. You will also coach a team of various engineering roles in ML, data, DevOps and SW through leading by example. Coordinating the engineering team’s efforts in delivering superior stable data pipelines and model serving capabilities is at the core of your everyday work. This role is an excellent opportunity to develop both your technical and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Understand priorities, set requirements, and define a roadmap for our platform capabilities in collaboration with the Head of Data & ML Engineering and the Tech Lead,
• Plan and follow up on the day-to-day work, make sure that the team is focusing on the right tasks.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and relevant teams in other parts of the bank.
• Support the team’s well-being.
• Contribute with hands-on engineering work ranging from DevOps to Data & ML.
• Together with the Tech Lead, make sure that we are constantly improving on our ML & Data pipelines to deliver maximum business value.

About You

• You have a master’s degree or equivalent in a technical field with above average academic results.
• You have excellent problem-solving skills and enjoy solving problems with code.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Data/ML-oriented engineering role.
• Formal or informal experience of leading a team.
• Experience in Linux with a deep understanding of system design.
• You are willing to learn, or already know, basic Swedish.
• You constantly want to learn new skills and are proactive with your own development.
• Experience working with data and building data pipelines with respect to data modeling, orchestration and validation.
• Well versed in Python and SQL.

It is meriting if you have experience of:

• Working with containerized development in a Linux environment.
• Working with test-driven development.
• Dbt, Prefect and Spark.
• Being in a scrum master role.

We are looking for a person who fits the positive, friendly, and supportive culture of Handelsbanken. The ideal candidate is curious, inventive, strives for improvement every single day and shares our aim to be smart, humble and, above all, collaborative.

We Offer

• The chance to develop fast, make a big impact and cut out new paths in an expanding team at the core of Handelsbanken’s ambitious focus on digitalization.
• An abundance of interesting opportunities and a focus on building new capabilities, not just maintaining what others have already created.
• A friendly and collaborative work environment where colleagues learn and achieve together.
• Competitive compensation and pension plan.
• Extensive benefit package (subsidized banking services, health care, lunch and more) .
• Flexibility to work from home part of the time.
• Office at prime location in central Stockholm.

Your Application

We look forward to receiving your CV. Furthermore, we are particularly interested in previous team work experience, what motivates you and achievements that you are proud of.

The promotion of gender equality, diversity and an inclusive corporate culture is a fundamental part of our values. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to submit their applications.

About us

With over 2,000 employees, we are one of Sweden’s largest tech organisations. Our focus on the future is matched by our pride in our history. Therefore we’re constantly on the lookout for people with new skills who can see the challenges and opportunities in our digitalisation work. This applies to everything from operations, maintenance and system management to development, innovation and design.

We have a decentralised organisational structure, in which you the employee are trusted to take a high degree of responsibility. Long-term business relations, low risk-taking and cost-awareness are cornerstones of Handelsbanken’s corporate culture. They form the basis of our banking operations being run in a responsible, sustainable and successful manner.

When we recruit, we seek people who share the Bank’s fundamental values. The goal is for employees to reflect the markets in which we operate – with different backgrounds, skills, and work experience, as well as different ways of thinking and solving problems.

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