Tech Lead - Data & Insights

Join Telenor Linx as Tech Lead - Data & Insights!

Do you like high-performing environments, diverse teams, and innovative technologies? We are searching for new talents to take part in building our Data & Insights team at Telenor Linx and develop valuable data solutions benefitting internal and external customers worldwide.

About the Team

You'll be joining a small team that is responsible for ensuring our data platform is providing maximum value to internal product teams.

We are a high performing team that work together to create an enjoyable user experience and deliver a product that is bringing revenues to Telenor.

We apply agile and iterative methods and operate in a collaborative, DevOps manner.

We prioritize quality, integrity, and agility over time, deliver small changes often, and strive to have close and trustful relationship to our product manager and management.

We use modern tools and techniques, and you are free to choose between a Mac or Linux.

Who You are?

We are looking for a Tech Lead who can actively contribute to bringing our data platform forward.

• You are proactive and always looking for ways to improve our products and processes.
• You are able to thoughtfully advocate for solutions that deliver value to the company.
• You are comfortable communicating with stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership.
• Enjoy or see value in motivating, supporting, and looking for development opportunities for your team: This point highlights the candidate's ability to lead and mentor a team. You are open minded and love to learn, as well as to explore and share your own ideas.
• Working together with colleagues inspires you, and creating quality solutions is a motivation.
• You take pride in making quality code and solutions that the users love, you are passionate about data engineering work, and you are motivated by making users happy.
• You will be working on everything from requirement gathering and analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, and maintenance.

What You bring

To succeed in this team, we believe you should have knowledge and experience in many (but not necessarily all) of the following areas:

• Excellent problem-solving capabilities
• Team oriented work style
• Developing and maintaining cloud-native applications, including setting up resources with Infrastructure-as-Code: AWS (Amazon Web Services), Terraform, Terragrunt
• Traditional Data, Big-Data or Data streaming solutions; also, more modern Lakehouse solutions: PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, Databricks. Experience with data transformation using Databricks medallion architecture and modeling with SQL
• Experience with analytics platform refactoring and data pipeline simplification
• Some experience building and maintaining ML pipelines.
• Programming: Spark, Python, Clojure
• Code-versioning and CI/CD: GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Metrics collection, visualizing and alerting (observability): Prometheus, Prometheus Alertmanager, Grafana

Most of the engineers in the team have an M.Sc. in Computer Science, or similar relevant experience/education and we think you have the same.

Our working language is English; therefore, a fluent English level is required

How We Work

We follow Agile methodologies to plan and execute our work, but we are not strict about it. We adopt what works best for our current setup.

OKRs, sprints/kanban, daily standups, quarterly planning meetings, retrospectives and 1-on-1s are part of our routines; we use JIRA and Confluence to keep things organised.

We sometimes pair-program, many times we rely on code-reviews. All the time, we use reason to argue with each other and accept that we do not always need to agree. We always respect each other.

Some of the Benefits We Offer

Some of the benefits we offer are an excellent canteen (subsidized lunch), coffee, snacks, opportunity to book company-subsidized cabins, an insurance scheme, corporate discounts, good pension plan, professional development opportunities through company-paid courses and tons of social activities.

Why Telenor Linx?

In Telenor Linx you to take part in shaping the strategy, get challenges and personal development. Telenor Linx offers a rewarding, international fast-paced working environment, and the opportunity to play a role in safeguarding and building value for a leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia. 

We believe in the power of our people, and we recognize that the diverse talents within our global workforce are integral to our success. Join a culture that values individual contributions and supports professional growth.

Join the Telenor Linx team of nice and dedicated colleagues and work together with us in reaching our next goal on the continuous way of making Telenor’s services as optimal as possible. 

Other Information

Application deadline: We will process applications continuously

Location: Fornebu, Norway

We conduct background checks on relevant candidates through Semac

If you have any questions, please reach out to Hiring Manager, Arild Nilsen, Head of Engineering, mobile +47 95 99 15 66 .

Inclusion and Diversity

Telenor is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.