Senior Data Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid role based in Stockholm, Sweden; candidates must have the right to work in Sweden. Relocation and work permit sponsorship are not available.

Salary: 60,000–72,000 SEK per month.

Company

Sinch is a global customer engagement platform providing communication services across messaging, voice, and email for businesses.

What you will do

• Lead data engineering projects, make technical decisions, and deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.
• Act as a technical authority, support leadership, and mentor team members on architecture, engineering practices, and emerging technologies.
• Design, develop, optimize, monitor, and maintain reliable data pipelines across diverse platforms and products.
• Drive data integration and improve access to reliable data across the product portfolio.
• Champion code quality, automation, AI-assisted development, continuous improvement, and modern data engineering practices.
• Explore AI agents, LLMs, and agentic workflows to automate development and data operations and improve engineering efficiency.

Requirements

• Professional experience in pipeline development and governance, data virtualization tools, and real-time data processing.
• Proficiency in software development with Python, Spark, Git, CI/CD, and Docker.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar for coding, debugging, testing, and documentation while maintaining code quality, security, and maintainability.
• Strong SQL skills for data querying and ETL/ELT development.
• Strong interest in AI agents, agentic workflows, LLMs, autonomous agents, and AI-driven automation applied to data engineering and developer productivity.
• Experience structuring and storing large volumes of data in data lakes and warehouses.
• Ability to fix and optimize data pipelines for performance and reliability.
• Familiarity with Airflow or Dagster and experience using Databricks; cloud experience in AWS or GCP.
• Knowledge of Data Lake, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric architectures, plus strong communication skills and fluent English for technical and business stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work based in Stockholm.
• Corporate language is English.
• Values include dreaming big, winning together, keeping it simple, and making it happen.
• Inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace with a fair, objective, consistent, and inclusive recruitment approach.

Hiring process

• Structured, competency-based interviews evaluate relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
• A data-driven assessment may be included in the process.