Data Management Engineer

About the role

Insurance is all about life. And it’s all about IT. There are over 1000 techies in the IT community at If. Most of our tech teams are working in an agile setup consisting of tribes and cross-functional squads to enable an optimal environment to reach our shared objectives and key results. In our team, you will work with technical solutions that have the power to turn misfortunes into possibilities and dreams into reality. We use modern technologies to create front-running insurance experiences for our customers. Giving them the security and the confidence to be curious, explore new worlds, start new business, and live their lives. Read more about the important work that we do here: https://medium.com/if-tech

The Data Enabler Tribe’s main responsibility is to enable the use of data in If. We build and operate data platforms, support teams with data management practices, provide AI guidance. We enable data producers and data consumers distributed across our organization, including data warehouses, business intelligence, integration and ML and AI solutions. Our squads are mostly located at the If offices in Turku, Espoo, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen and Riga.

What are you going to do?

• Establish and maintain practical standards, controls, and operating practices for data management and governance on the Databricks platform.

• Act as a practical lead for governance and data management implementation, ensuring ways of working are secure, scalable, usable in delivery, and aligned with the overall data strategy.

• Translate governance, compliance, and operational requirements into clear processes, templates, guardrails, and implementation guidance for delivery teams.

• Identify implementation risks, ownership gaps, and weak operating controls early, and drive corrective actions before they become delivery bottlenecks.

• Own operational processes such as access management, retention, metadata expectations, data product standards, and governance review points.

• Work hands-on with platform, DataOps, enablement, architects, and domain teams to implement governance and data management in real delivery.

• Apply a structured, end-to-end approach to solve data management and governance challenges in a way that reduces friction, improves consistency, and supports long-term maintainability.

What do we expect from you?

• Strong builder mindset with the ability to make ambiguous or weakly owned topics operational.

• Strong understanding of modern data platforms and engineering practices; Databricks experience is highly relevant and dbt experience is a plus.

• Experience in data management and governance areas such as ownership, metadata, access management, retention, data quality, and data modeling.

• Experience producing practical operating assets such as standards, templates, controls, and working instructions.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across governance, platform, engineering, and business stakeholders.

• Great communication and stakeholder management skills

• Day-to-day responsibilities require a good/excellent level of English to communicate with clients and colleagues in other countries
  

Our promise to you

• Monthly salary: €3700 - €4500 gross depending on your qualifications

• Strong company culture: knowledge sharing, company events, interesting speakers, and other inspiring initiatives

• Career and development opportunities in the biggest insurance company in the Nordics

• Challenging and exciting projects with autonomy to plan own tasks 

• Extra vacation days, annual bonus, great insurance benefits, discounts on our products for you and your family, gifts, etc. 

• Hybrid work and ergonomic home office compensation 

• A recently renovated office in Riga centre with a 24/7 gym on the premises

• Business trips to Baltic and Nordic countries

Read more about benefits for our employees.

Application deadline: May 14, 2026

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