Lead Data Engineer

As a Lead Cloud Data Engineer at SEB, you’ll join a newly formed team in the Finance Tribe to drive a strategic initiative: creating and maintaining the Accounting Hub, a centralised platform for subledger accounting.

Your main responsibilities will be to develop new integrations with source systems, implement data transformations based on the solution data model, and build the orchestration framework and CI/CD pipelines for the platform. You’ll help define development standards and drive the creation of a scalable, high-quality data flow.

You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, architects, and other development teams to ensure the Accounting Hub meets business needs and supports efficient, accurate financial processes.

You’ll also have the opportunity to explore and experiment with modern technologies — including AI tools like Google Gemini — and directly influence how data moves across SEB’s finance landscape.

To thrive in this role, we believe you have:

• Hands-on experience with GCP, especially in building data-transformation pipelines using tools such as DBT or Dataform
• Practical experience orchestrating workflows with Cloud Composer (Airflow)
• Strong knowledge of VMs and their operational management
• Solid experience with SQL Server, including database configuration and working with stored procedures
• Proficiency in Python for scripting and data processing
• Experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud resources
• A track record of building DevOps pipelines (GitHub or GitLab)
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with complex information
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English
• Experience designing automated tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) would be considered a strong advantaged

• Agile and modern ways of working
• A flat hierarchy and openness to share ideas, opinions and points of views
• Extensive training and learning opportunities
• Numerous examples of innovative initiatives such as Innovation Hubs, SEBx, Ted Talks, Design Sprint Week etc.