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Lead Data Engineer AI & Databricks
Software Engineering, Data Science
Copenhagen, Denmark
Posted on Nov 3, 2026
The Impact You'll Make
Join Danfoss Power Solutions in Sofia as a Lead Engineer, Data and help build the data foundation powering our growing AI Hub. As Danfoss accelerates its AI journey, trusted, scalable, and well-governed data is critical to turning AI ambitions into measurable business results. In this role, you will help create the platform that enables AI, analytics, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.
You will play a key role in establishing both the technical foundation and the engineering practices of a team that is currently being built. Working closely with data, analytics, AI, and business teams, you will define architectures, governance standards, and AI-ready data products that allow solutions to scale globally. Beyond your technical contributions, you will provide day-to-day technical leadership, mentor team members, and help shape the culture, standards, and ways of working of the AI Hub. This is a unique opportunity to combine hands-on engineering with the chance to influence the direction of a growing team from the very beginning.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Enable AI and analytics at scale by building and evolving trusted Databricks-based data platforms, architectures, and data products.
- Deliver reliable, AI-ready data by designing and maintaining scalable data models, pipelines, and integration frameworks that support critical business use cases.
- Establish best practices for data governance, security, quality, and platform management, ensuring data can be used confidently across the organization.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a growing team, helping define engineering standards, ways of working, and development practices.
- Drive adoption of data and AI solutions by partnering with engineers, analysts, product owners, and business stakeholders across Danfoss Power Solutions.
What We're Looking For
- Experience with Databricks or similar cloud-based data platforms.
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining scalable data architectures, data models, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python.
- Experience with data governance, data quality, data security, and access management practices.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and collaborate effectively in fluent English with both technical and business stakeholders.
What You'll Get from Us
- The opportunity to help establish the enterprise data platform that powers AI adoption across Danfoss Power Solutions.
- A visible role in shaping a newly growing AI Hub, influencing technical direction, engineering standards, and platform strategy.
- The chance to expand your leadership experience through mentoring, coaching, and guiding a team that is still being built.
- Exposure to enterprise-scale AI, analytics, governance, and cloud data initiatives across a global organization.
- We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
- You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
- We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
- You’ll receive benefits like annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're passionate about building the trusted data foundation that makes AI possible and are excited by the opportunity to help shape both a growing AI Hub and the team behind it, we'd love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
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Salary ranges listed reflect only primary location and currency. For local salary ranges and specific benefits in your preferred hiring location, please ask your Talent Acquisition representative for more information.
The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Any benefits listed do not promise or guarantee any particular benefit or specific action. They may depend on country or contract specifics and are subject to change at any time without prior notice.
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