Senior Engineering Manager Data Platform
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Job Summary
- Application Deadline: Feb. 15 2026
- Multiple locations
- Hybrid
Job Description
THE OPPORTUNITY IN A NUTSHELL
You A senior engineering leader with a strong data and platform background who knows how to scale teams systems and impact.
Role As Senior Engineering Manager Data Platform youll provide senior engineering leadership for teams building and operating core data platform capabilities that support analytics AI and product development across Vend.
Tech stack Large-scale data platforms with technologies like Kafka Snowflake cloud-native data tooling and modern data governance practices.
Company Vend home of FINN Blocket Tori Oikotie DBA & Bilbasen where millions of people across the Nordics connect to find what they need a job a home a way to move or a fresh start.
Location Join us in our central Oslo or Stockholm office with the flexibility to work 50% remotely: your choice your balance.
Why us
- Work with a business-critical platform used across the organisation
- Contribute to how data is discovered accessed and trusted at scale
- Collaborate at senior level with experienced Product and Engineering peers
- Support execution of long-term platform strategy alongside Product and Engineering leadership
- Make a meaningful contribution to analytics AI and future product innovation
WHO ARE YOU
- Senior Engineering Manager experience leading teams within a data platform or data-intensive platform domain
- Strong technical background in data engineering distributed systems or platform engineering
- Product-minded leader who enjoys close collaboration with Product Managers
- Systems thinker with experience aligning teams around shared outcomes and long-term direction
- Clear communicator and stakeholder manager comfortable working with senior leadership
- Experience with large-scale data platforms including streaming governance and cloud-native tooling
WHATS THE JOB LIKE
Youll provide senior engineering leadership within Vends Data Platform domain ensuring the data lifecycle from integration and streaming to discovery access and governance is reliable scalable and self-serve by default.
Day-to-day you will
- Provide engineering leadership across the Data Platform domain
- Set a shared technical and operational direction across the data lifecycle
- Partner closely with Product Managers and Area Leadership to shape and execute the platform roadmap
- Provide architectural leadership ensuring consistency quality and long-term sustainability
- Balance delivery reliability governance and cost across the platform
- Grow and support engineers through coaching performance management and career development
- Lead with clarity and care balancing clear direction and accountability with trust development and thoughtful people leadership
Key areas youll work with
- Translating the Self-Serve Data Platform strategy into concrete sequenced delivery plans
- Simplifying the platform by consolidating overlapping capabilities and retiring legacy paths
- Improving discoverability documentation and trust in data products
- Embedding governance security and compliance directly into platform workflows
Youll work closely with Product Managers Engineering Leadership Data Consumers and Platform teams across Vend.
What success looks like
- Clear engineering ownership and direction within the Data Platform domain
- Stable reliable platform capabilities that teams across Vend can depend on
- Product and Engineering working in close alignment on platform priorities
- Platform solutions that are documented discoverable and operated consistently
The challenge turns into an opportunity!
The data platform spans multiple technologies and capability areas and supports a broad set of internal customers. This role focuses on ensuring clarity consistency and reliable execution across the platform aligned with established strategy and priorities.
GOT YOUR ATTENTION LET US HEAR FROM YOU!
The latest date to apply is February 15th but we encourage you to apply as soon as possible - well review applications continuously! Were looking forward to hearing from you.
Cecilia Bergerståhl Senior TA Partner is happy to provide information together with Knut Ytterhaug Engineering Director about the daily work and answer any questions you may have!
Want to get a feel for our culture and what drives us
Take a peek behind the scenes at our Career Page!
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- ArcGIS
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Construction Estimating
- Go
- Mathcad
- React
- Redux
- AWS
- Software Development
- Auto Estimating
- Distributed Systems
About Company
About the company At Vend, our mission is simple: Smart choices made easy. We’re here to make sustainable living effortless through seamless digital experiences. As part of a dynamic family of marketplaces, including FINN, Blocket, Tori, Bytbil, Oikotie, Bilbasen, and DBA, we connect ... View more
