Data Engineer

At Fortum, data plays a central role in how we understand our customers, develop digital solutions, and support the transition to a cleaner energy future.

About the role

Here you will design, build, and continuously improve data engineering solutions that enable reliable analytics, faster insight generation, and data‑driven decision‑making across the business.

In this role, your task will include but not be limited to:

• Provide contribution to the design, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise‑scale data platforms
• Together with the team design, implement, and support key datasets that provide structured and timely access to actionable insights in various topics, such strategic and operational KPIs, competence, quality and training data, consumption and revenue margin, customer interactions, digital engagement, customer feedback, and much more.
• Monitor existing metrics and data quality, analyze data, and lead improvements together with stakeholder teams.
• Orchestrate multi-task data workflows with parameterized, multi-brand execution and conditional logic for country-specific processing.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of data platforms through well‑researched and practical solutions.
• Collaborate with business units, analysts, other data engineering teams and source system teams to translate business needs into reliable, well-documented data models.

About you

You’re a data engineering professional with a passion for building excellent analytical data solutions to facilitate data-driven decision-making. Since our team is committed to pursuing innovation and improvements through increased use of data. United by our passion for technology, curiosity about user experience, and dedication to excellence, we are looking for someone who shares our enthusiasm.

To excel in this role, you are expected to have:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with stakeholders.
• Bachelor's or higher degree in computer science or another relevant field.
• Hands-on data engineering experience with Databricks (PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) and Azure or similar platforms.
• Experience building analytical data models based on the needs of stakeholders, and your own innovations and insights.
• Interest in utilizing AI agents and tools to accelerate development work.
• Good knowledge of Git version control and CI/CD for data pipelines.
• Good language skills, being able to express yourself verbally in English is a must, other Nordic language is considered a great asset.
• Proactive and independent problem-solver attitude with willingness to learn and share knowledge to others.

We are excited to hire individuals who are as passionate about data engineering as we are and be eager to contribute to our innovative team. If you share this enthusiasm, we would love to hear from you!

We offer a hybrid work model to support your productivity; you are expected to be at the office two to three times a week.

The position can be located in our offices in Solna, Stockholm or Espoo, Helsinki.

We offer you

At Fortum, we believe in a better future and want to be involved in shaping it. Our workplace is a safe place, both physically and mentally. You will grow with professional colleagues, being trusted and free to challenge yourself. We offer comprehensive benefits, flexible working hours, and hybrid work model to support your productivity, development and wellbeing. We are committed to build diverse teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally

More information about our culture and benefits can be found here.

Espoo office is a smoke-free workplace.

For permanent employment with Fortum Sverige AB, you may be assigned a wartime posting within the organization. For further information regarding wartime posting, please refer to the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency.

Interested?

Submit your application via our recruitment tool at the latest on 20th of September 2026. We may start contacting suitable candidates already during the application period, the position can be closed before last application date, please apply today! If you have questions and would like to hear more about the position, please contact recruiting manager Esben Fog at esben.fog@fortum.com

Contact details to union representatives can be found on the bottom of this page.

To be selected for the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and a health examination which may include a drug test.

We are Fortum

Fortum is a Nordic energy company. We generate and deliver reliable energy to our customers and the Nordic energy system while at the same time helping industries decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations comprise efficient and best-in-class low-carbon power generation, customer services, and heating and cooling. Fortum’s power generation is already 99% from renewable or nuclear sources with one of the lowest specific CO2-emissions in Europe. We are guided by our ambitious SBTi-validated emission reduction targets on our way towards net-zero by 2040. For our ~4,500 employees, we commit to be a safe and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. fortum.com