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Data Platform Engineer

Finnair

About Finnair

  • Finnair is a diverse community of professionals who work ambitiously with a big heart and commitment.
  • A strong safety culture is our priority and at the core of our everyday work, never taking it for granted.
  • We are committed to doing our share in solving the climate challenge by determinedly following our science-based pathway to decarbonize our operations.
  • With our heart in Finland, we make every journey better, today and tomorrow.
  • Always Safe, Customer at Heart and Stronger Together– guide us in everything we do.
  • We are now looking for a DATA PLATFORM ENGINEER to work on our Data and Platform Engineering team in Vantaa, Finland.
  • In this role, your job is to design reliable, secure, and user-friendly data tools for Finnair’s customer, commercial, and operational domains.
  • You will be one of the leaders of the architecture, infrastructure and tooling development of our Data Warehouse, Data Ingestion & Transformation Tools, and Workflow Orchestration.
  • You will learn the different aspects of our customer, commercial, and operational landscape.
  • You will also work together with data engineers on shared practices and tools between different data domains.
  • At Finnair, You become part of One Crew working together to make every journey better — today and tomorrow.
  • Always Safe, Customer at Heart, and Stronger Together — guide how we work, make decisions, and support each other every day.
  • We offer meaningful work with real impact, where your contribution helps shape the future of aviation, digital services, and sustainable travel.
  • Collaboration, trust, and respect are part of everyday work, and people are encouraged to take ownership and grow.
  • You’ll join a community where diverse perspectives are valued, continuous learning is supported, and development happens together — not alone.

Are you interested?

  • Our people are key to our success and the foundation that makes Finnair unique.
  • We are committed to creating a safe work environment where all our people can thrive and succeed.
  • We cherish diversity and strive to employ people with different backgrounds and experiences, to bring together multiple views to foster our business success.
  • You are welcome to join Finnair as your authentic self.

Responsibilities

  • Democratize data engineering and analytics work by designing easy-to-use tools and automating manual work.
  • Make our data flows more reliable and secure by standardizing the patterns for ingesting, transforming and orchestrating data.
  • Deliver data faster by investigating new technologies and common performance bottlenecks.
  • Be more cost-efficient by making smart design choices and reacting to anomalies.
  • Encourage collaboration by sharing common engineering practices and reusable tooling across data domains.
  • Create a strong foundation for Finnair’s future analytics and AI use cases.

Requirements

  • Solid experience in data engineering or data platform development.
  • Experience in change management in a complex technical environment.
  • Interest in airline Industry.
  • Excellent communication skills and positive mindset to work in a social, friendly and international team.
  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
  • Previous experience in at least some of our stack ( see below ).

Our stack

Platforms: AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Alation, PowerBI AWS Analytical Services: Glue, EMR, Airflow (MWAA), Firehose AWS Infra: S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild Languages & Frameworks: CDK (Typescript), Python, SQL, Spark (Scala) Data Model: Dimensional Modeling, OBT Why Join Finnair?

Get onboard! Please submit your application with your CV, cover letter and salary expectation no later than Sunday, 15 November 2026 . Please note that the hiring process includes a pre-employment security clearance and a drug test. In case you have any questions about the role, please contact Venkata Varanasi ( Data & Platform Engineering Lead ) by phone +358 50 393 0130 on the specified time stated below (GMT +02:00): Thursday, 5 November between 4pm to 5pm Please note that we do not process applications submitted via email.

According to our employee survey, respecting diversity is at a high level in our work community.