Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platform
Vend Marketplaces AB / Datajobb / Stockholm
2026-02-17
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hela Sverige Visa alla jobb hos Vend Marketplaces AB i Stockholm THE OPPORTUNITY IN A NUTSHELLYou? 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, you'll 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
WHAT'S THE JOB LIKE?
You'll provide senior engineering leadership within Vend's 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 you'll 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
You'll 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 - we'll review applications continuously! We're 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!
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 people with services and products that matter.
Driven by purpose and curiosity, we constantly evolve to meet today's needs and shape a smarter, more sustainable tomorrow.
At Vend, your time matters. We want you to explore new paths to smarter. Be curious with technology and lean forward. Dare to try, learn, and try again, as we innovate, grow and succeed together. Because your time matters. And when spent wisely, it creates value for you, for Vend, and society as a whole.
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Arbetsgivare Vend Marketplaces AB (org.nr 556610-3429),
http://www.vend.com/ Arbetsplats Vend
Jobbnummer 9747048