Senior Platform Engineer – Data and Analytics

About the role

Essity is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer within its Data & Analytics environment to help build, automate and evolve the engineering foundations that let analytics and AI solutions run securely, reliably and at scale. This is a hands-on platform engineering role working across Microsoft Azure, Azure Databricks and Power BI, strengthening DevOps and infrastructure-as-code capabilities and shaping the use of AI and intelligent automation for self-service analytics.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain Azure and Databricks infrastructure (storage, networking, access controls, Unity Catalog) using Terraform or Bicep
• Develop and operate automated CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, Databricks workloads and Power BI using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• Create reusable, metadata-driven ingestion and processing capabilities with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark and SQL
• Strengthen security, access management, lineage, data quality and governance
• Improve monitoring, performance, operational resilience and cost efficiency
• Establish engineering standards, review technical solutions, mentor colleagues and promote effective use of the platform
• Identify opportunities to use AI and intelligent automation to reduce manual work

Required profile

• Relevant technical education or equivalent practical experience in enterprise platform engineering
• 6+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps or data engineering in enterprise cloud environments
• Strong practical expertise in Microsoft Azure and Azure Databricks
• Experience with Terraform or Bicep, CI/CD, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Python, SQL and PySpark
• Power BI administration or deployment automation experience is valuable
• Fluent English; CVs must be submitted in English
• Comfortable collaborating in an international, geographically distributed team

What we offer

• A multi-location role with flexibility to be based in Lisbon (primary), Munich, Hamburg or Gothenburg, collaborating with international teams
• An inclusive, collaborative culture focused on well-being and positive change