Do you have the spark to develop new, influential solutions that help make daily life easier for wide audiences? Are you interested in a chance to do pioneer work on solutions that revolutionize the ways we at OP do business decisions?

At OP, we are continuing our transformation journey to revolutionize both our own work and our services to customers. The new, agile operating model will be adopted in stages throughout the organization and will distribute responsibilities and freedom to all OP personnel. Our team’s will have the freedom to tackle ambitious development work the way they consider the best.

So, why not consider joining Finland’s largest financial services provider and leading technology house as a Data Engineer, Non-Life Insurance? The position will combine significant opportunities for continuous professional development and learning from co-workers, and the development of ambitious solutions that fulfill OP’s shared service promise. Located in Vallila, Helsinki the Data Engineer position also offers an excellent opportunity to get into the core of Finnish fintech.

Data Engineer, Non-Life Insurance

About the role

Your goal is to develop suitable ETL solutions to transfer Non-Life insurance data for reporting, analytics and machine learning needs. You are leading and developing the use of AWS-based analytics and Big Data solutions. In other words, you harness our data to support business decisions. You will be creating and enabling capabilities that help the data be understandable, visual and easy to access.

You participate in deciding which data we are collecting, from where and how we are warehousing it. Additionally, you analyze the data to support our business and development needs. Because you are an expert on your field, we hope you participate in strategic plans and projects, which are related to digitalization, AWS-based analytics and Big Data. You’ll be working in tribe which is responsible Non-Life Insurance products, but your own Data & Knowledge organization has your back in everything you do.

What you need to succeed

We are looking for a candidate who likes to work hands-on and understands the business value of data. You don’t need to have several years of experience, but you have already gained expertise in data warehouse, ETL implementation and data quality.

You have good general knowledge of AWS infrastructure and its components. As programming languages, we use SQL, Scala, Java, Python, R, Spark and SAS. The more experience in previous the better. As ETL tools we use DataStage and Kafka. You don’t have to excel everything from the day one, as learning while and by doing and eagerness to learn are profound elements of our culture here in OP. And as stated above, you are not alone – your team and colleagues are here to help you.

We use agile methods and DevOps, so we hope that you are familiar with those and you have an agile mindset. Your way of working is goal-oriented and analytical; you are good at prioritizing tasks, you have good time management skills and you are good at working under pressure. You are solution oriented and you have a way to motivate others to participate and create new solutions together. In work-related matters you communicate fluently in English. Finnish skills are an advantage, but not mandatory.

What we offer

Our corporate culture and every-day operations are based on our core values: Responsibility, Succeeding Together and People First. For us, Responsibility means that by our solutions we are also developing Finnish economy and society. With our skills we can to serve our society the best way by creating good banking solutions, insurance solutions and digital service channels.

Succeeding together for its part means that we strongly believe in cooperation. We share knowledge and expertise within and between our teams, and we learn from each other every day. You’ll be doing close cooperation with Developers, Test Engineers, Solution Analysts and operations’ professionals.

People First means healthy relationship with work. With the Agile transformation journey, which we started for over a year ago, we have wanted to give our agile teams great power and responsibility of their own work. We have full trust on our professionals and experts, and we give them freedom to do what they do best in a way that suits best for them.

Even though we have transformed from a traditional financial group more and more towards a technology house, you should not forget that we are a bank, after all. And this means that as an employee of OP, you will enjoy cheap mortgages and significant insurance benefits along with competitive salaries. Also, you will be offered extensive occupational health care plus health and accident insurances. And as a big house we also have the benefits of a big organization for your personal professional growth and development! As a cliffhanger, we can mention our internal education program, OP Software Academy, which is created to broaden and deepen our employees’ technical skills and competence.

How to apply

If you are interested, get in touch with us to learn more and introduce yourself! For more information about the position, contact Satu Ketonen by phone at +358 50 599 1702 or email satu.ketonen(at)op.fi. If you’re ready to apply for the position, submit your application by Friday 11th of September 2020.

The person to be selected for the job will have a credit check and a business relationship check, as well as drug test, basic security report and a health survey.

OP is the leading financial services group in Finland and pioneer in the industry's digital transformation. Owned by our customers, we are the largest financial sector employer in Finland. OP Financial Group employs over 12,000 professionals and provides banking, wealth management, insurance and healthcare services for our more than four million customers.#LI-MP1