Data Engineer

Do you dream of giving the world of real estate access to simple, streamlined, automated data processing, to support fast, proactive and smart decisions? Do you thrive when you hear expressions like Power BI, Lakehouse, Notebooks, Azure DevOps and Dax-programming? Do you wish to make the world a better and more sustainable place little by little (while enjoying a state of art lunch every day). Then this role with us, may be your next step!
Heimstaden is a European residential real estate investor and manager, with more than 160,000 homes across nine countries with a property value of EUR +29bn. We acquire, develop, and manage properties.  
We are an entrepreneurial company that likes to challenge existing and constantly improve. Our perspective is long term, and we create lasting impact for tenants, employees, shareholders and other partners. 

About the job

Join our Data & AnalytiX team as our Data Engineer and contribute to our mission of delivering innovative data solutions and automating manual data processes. As part of our cross-functional group, you'll collaborate on cutting-edge projects that provide actionable insights for one of Europe's largest residential companies. We are a small team that focuses on agile development and strive to challenge the existing in order to improve our work.

As a Data Engineer, you'll play a vital role in enhancing the backend of our BI solutions. Your immediate responsibilities will involve developing and maintaining our Microsoft Fabrics platform. You should be comfortable taking over existing solutions and refactor code into new optimized models based on best practice. Our solutions draw from wide variety of data sources and are evolving from Excel-based systems to a sophisticated cloud-based infrastructure. Our analytical platform is built on Microsoft Fabrics, where we use both notebooks as well as data pipelines to consolidate all analytical tools onto a unified platform.

Collaboration is central to our development process. You'll work closely with business users to gather requirements and ensure solutions align with their needs. Additionally, you'll collaborate with two other development teams and build one centralized version of the truth. This role reports to Gullbrand Gillund, Lead Data & AnalytiX, and is based in our modern facilities in central Copenhagen. Occasional travel may be required, but no fixed schedule.

Key Responsibilities:

As an Analytics Engineer, your core responsibilities encompass:

◾ Developing and maintaining BI solutions in Power B

◾ Structuring tasks within our Azure DevOps setup.

◾ Prioritizing data quality while building solutions.

◾ Documenting solution designs

◾ Crafting data models that facilitate self-service BI.

To fit this role, we look for you who:

◾ Have a master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, BI Development, Mathematics, Physics, Programming, Statistics, or related fields.

◾ Possess a strong analytical mindset honed through experience with quantitative modeling and managing large datasets.

◾ Are comfortable working within an agile and transparent methodology.

◾ Demonstrate proficiency in ETL tools and data processing techniques (SQL, M-query).

◾ Have experience in data warehousing, data modeling, and DAX programming.

◾ Have an understanding of the Power Platform and configuring Power BI datasets and hands-on experience with agile development.

◾ Are fluent in English, other languages are meriting

◾ Are familiar with or have a strong interest to learn to use one or several of the following; Kimball architecture patterns, Power BI Premium features like Deployment Pipelines, Scorecards, and Data Flows, Azure DevOps capabilities

As a person you are proficient and pedagogical in verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective interaction with both technical and business teams (with the ability to translate tech lingo to something non-tech people can understand). You are a natural learner who are passionate about always growing and pushing your boundaries. You immediately take our values, Dare, Care, Share to your heart and enjoy working in a team. You are willing to share knowledge with your colleagues (also the hard earnt knowledge gained through mistakes). In times of stress you stay cool and you have also found out that a sense of humor saves (most of) the day.

We look for talent in whatever form we can find it. We kindly ask any interested applicants to please send in the application anyway and let’s figure out together if the qualifications are enough. Of course, this also apply for any and all self-critical applicants reading this job ad.

Apply today to connect with us in the People & Culture team, we will support your career wants and needs, and we are happy to share and stay connected. Even if you are not looking for a change, feel free to contact us to find out how your career aspiration can fit in Heimstaden

For questions, please contact Franco Hurtado at [email protected]
We conduct background checks as part of our recruitment process. We do not accept cover letters or CVs outside of our application portals. We will initiate a conversation with the selected candidates before application due date. If you have any questions regarding these, you are welcome to contact us!