Data Management Engineer

Overview

About The Team

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain practical standards, controls, and operating practices for data management and governance on the Databricks platform.
• Act as a practical lead for governance and data management implementation, ensuring ways of working are secure, scalable, usable in delivery, and aligned with the overall data strategy.
• Translate governance, compliance, and operational requirements into clear processes, templates, guardrails, and implementation guidance for delivery teams.
• Identify implementation risks, ownership gaps, and weak operating controls early, and drive corrective actions before they become delivery bottlenecks.
• Own operational processes such as access management, retention, metadata expectations, data product standards, and governance review points.
• Work hands-on with platform, DataOps, enablement, architects, and domain teams to implement governance and data management in real delivery.
• Apply a structured, end-to-end approach to solve data management and governance challenges in a way that reduces friction, improves consistency, and supports long-term maintainability.
• Who are you?
• Strong builder mindset with the ability to make ambiguous or weakly owned topics operational.
• Strong understanding of modern data platforms and engineering practices; Databricks experience is highly relevant and dbt experience is a plus.
• Experience in data management and governance areas such as ownership, metadata, access management, retention, data quality, and data modeling.
• Experience producing practical operating assets such as standards, templates, controls, and working instructions.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across governance, platform, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Great communication and stakeholder management skills
• We offer
• In the same way that we place high expectations on you as an employee, we also expect you to place high demands on us as an employer.
• Here are some of the benefits of working at If:
• An inclusive work environment where everyone is welcome
• Career and development opportunities in the biggest insurance company in the Nordics
• Social activities, as well as highly skilled professional environment
• Health promoting workplace with e.g., wellness allowance and various sports activities
• Great insurance benefits

Applying

Deadline

Location

Traveling

• : Requires some occasional traveling in the Nordics and Baltics
• Final candidates will undergo a background check before a job offer can be presented.
• Background checks will be done in accordance with the law in the country of employment.
• If have any questions about the position, please contact:
• Norway: Svein F. Tryggestad, svein.f.tryggestad@if.no, +4790649956
• Sweden: Stellan Sardal, stellan.sardal@if.se, +46706881225
• Latvia: Viktorija Ignatova, viktorija.ignatova@if.lv, +37126438 388
• Denmark: Rasmus Dyhrberg, rasmus.dyhrberg@if.dk, +4529775579
• Finland: Kimmo Vuori, kimmo.vuori@if.fi, +358505611366
• We are eager to hear from you!