Data Engineer, BigQuery, data products, data mesh
Work Arrangement
Office Days per Week: 3 days
Key Skills
Job Description
*Location : Sweden or Amsterdam. Onsite 2-3 days/week
*40 hours per week*
*English speaking only*
As a data and analytics team within the customer domain, we need data engineering support to transform existing data into data products to enable the data mesh. The work will include ingestion and transformation pipelines, data quality checks, modeling, and the setup of proper access management. This assignment will also involve stakeholder management with product and software engineering, documentation to ensure discover ability, process improvement, and review of our current setup regarding tech stack, best practices, and security.
The scope of the consultant services is to assist in:
Build and improve data products, and organise our team's work together with other data engineers and data stewards based in both Amsterdam and Sweden. For this role, specific technical skills are crucial, but interpersonal skills are also very important.
Requirements
Requirements:
- Data products and data mesh knowledge: experience with practical implementation from levels and schemas to data contracts and data access management
- BigQuery: advanced experience, ideally in-depth Analytics Hub experience for data access management
- Communication and interpersonal skills to help advocate for the data mesh, but also to guide colleagues technically
- GCP in general: especially tools used for data pipelines like Cloud Run (jobs), Workflows; Dataflow is a big plus
- CI/CD and DataOps: GitHub Actions, Observability/Monitoring, IaC with Terraform
- dbt: for data modelling and transformation pipelines
- SQL: advanced skills for pipeline optimisation,
- Stakeholder management (software engineers, POs)
Most important:
- Data products and data mesh knowledge
- BigQuery
- Communication and interpersonal skills
Core Responsibilities
The data engineer will build and improve data products to enable a data mesh architecture, including ingestion, transformation, and modeling. They will also manage stakeholder relationships and ensure proper documentation, security, and process improvement.
Requirements
Candidates must have advanced experience with BigQuery, data mesh implementation, and GCP tools. Strong communication skills and proficiency in SQL, dbt, and CI/CD practices are essential for this role.
About Avanda Solutions
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 51-200 employees
Avanda | IT & Life Sciences Professional Services Consultancy Founded in 2020 by leaders from top-tier IT consultancies and global executive search firms, Avanda is a high-end professional services consultancy operating at the intersection of technology, regulation and business transformation. We advise and support multinational organisations across Europe on complex, high-stakes initiatives spanning IT, Digital, Cybersecurity and Life Sciences, including: Technology and digital transformation programmes Cybersecurity, risk and regulated IT environments Delivery of senior specialists and leadership to reinforce critical programmes Operating across both advisory and delivery models, Avanda combines strategic clarity with hands-on execution — deploying senior consultants where precision, speed and accountability matter most. From modernising regulated platforms to securing mission-critical systems and accelerating transformation under tight constraints, Avanda is trusted for its rigour, discretion and execution excellence.