Do you want to make a real impact by accelerating the transition to zero-carbon energy systems and work in a startup-like environment? 

Elisa’s Smart Energy team is expanding rapidly, and we are seeking talented individuals to join our dynamic team of over 40 employees. Our multidisciplinary team leverages data and AI to address challenges posed by wind and solar energy becoming primary sources of power, through intelligently managed energy storage. We are providing solutions for the telecom sector (read more about it from www.elisa.com/des), homeowners (https://elisa.fi/kotiakku/) and Commercial and Industrial sector (f.ex Loviisan Lämpö). 

 As a Data Engineer, your main focus will be designing and implementing data pipelines between data-intensive systems and participate in developing solutions for data handling and machine learning. This role requires strong data integration skills and solid coding experience. 

Elisa’s Smart Energy Team’s innovative AI-based solution optimizes energy storage assets, delivering financial, operational, and sustainability benefits to telecom, commercial, industrial and residential clients. We are not only helping businesses and individuals maximize their energy storage potential but also driving the green energy transition by enabling renewable energy production and stabilizing electricity grids.  

Are you excited about transforming the energy ecosystem to a zero-carbon era? Do you enjoy developing new solution concepts from the idea stage to pilot installations and full-scale commercial launches? 

If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you! We are functioning like a startup within the larger Elisa corporation, proving that it is truly possible to combine the perks of a lean startup business with the resources and financial stability of a corporation. As we are growing fast and changing all the time, you will have a great chance to evolve the role yourself. 

What is the role all about?  

• Build and maintain data pipelines. 

• Continuously improve and optimize data operations. 

• Contribute to the developing and maintenance of our data platform and critical for machine learning team. 

• Support and contribute to developing the data platform that enables our product’s development, scaling and machine learning team. 

What do we expect from you?  

• Background and 3+ years of experience in software and data engineering. 

• Solid experience with modern software design patterns and cloud-native , including distributed computing and data processing pipelines. 

• Proficiency in Python; knowledge of other programming languages (e.g. Java, Go, ...) is a plus. 

• Practical development experience in some major cloud platforms (AWS preferred).  

• A DevSecOps and shift-left mindset and hands-on skills in IaC,  and CI/CD. 

• Experience with data and analytics platforms, preferably Databricks, and building data pipelines. 

• Experience with distributed batch and streaming processing frameworks (e.g. Apache Spark, Apache Spark Streaming, Apache Kafka, Flink,...). 

• Experience with schema validation at source and schema evolution.Enjoy writing maintainable and well-tested code. 

• Good communication skills and fluency in English. 

Nice to have 

• Shift-left testing and data validation mindset. 

• Experience in networking. 

• Experience with modern data file formats and specifications (e.g. Parquet, Avro, Iceberg, ) 

• Experience with modern analytics and query engines. 

• Experience or familiarity with the Apache ecosystem. 

• Understanding of energy markets, including the balancing reserve markets would be highly valued. 

Most of our team is based in Helsinki (some in Tampere and Turku), but like the rest of the Elisians, we can work flexibly (in Southern Finland). 

Why join us?  

You will be given a large portion of responsibility, but equal amounts of freedom and trust. We’re a dedicated cross-disciplinary venture team, working on a new disruptive solution to the energy markets – a true startup but inside Elisa. 

Elisa has been ranked as one of the Finland's best employers for many years, for many reasons: huge amounts of flexibility, a friendly and laid-back working environment, great leadership that we are truly proud of, a continuous curiosity and an innovative aim to develop, as well as a fundamental invitation to come as you are. We understand and honor the fact that each Elisian comes with families, hobbies, problems, backgrounds and lives of their own. Read more about Elisa and the Elisians here. 

We can't wait to get to know you a bit better! We will start the interviews immediately with promising candidates, so submit your application through the link below as soon as possible. If you have any questions about the role, please turn to the hiring manager, Pekka Kosonen at pekka.kosonen (a) elisa.com.