Analytics Engineer (Remote Eligible - Sweden)

At Viaplay Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, TV channels and production companies. From live sports and films to music and our own original shows, our purpose is to tell stories, touch lives and expand worlds. We’re now launching our Viaplay streaming service in a wide range of new markets and aiming to become the international streaming challenger. As a Nordic company with a global perspective and clear values, we’re looking for the best people to join us on our journey.

Do you want to work with the future of entertainment? Are you also excited about data and creating world class streaming solutions? Awesome, we might have the opportunity for you! We’re currently looking for an Analytics Engineer to join our Data Relations team in Stockholm.

Viaplay Group’s Data Relations team is responsible for assisting teams get access to and understand data about Viaplay’s everyday operations – from sales to viewing. To do this, the Data Relations team designs data sets, data models, and reporting dashboards. In this position you will work close with the Data Engineering team and bridge the gap between analytics and engineering. Our modern solution runs on AWS and our tech stack includes Exasol as a data warehouse, Airflow for data pipeline orchestration, Databricks for data processing and data transformation.

Feeling excited yet? We can guarantee that you will have a huge impact in this role, and we are really looking forward to start working with you!

In a rapidly expanding international streaming service, business insights and reporting allow Viaplay to monitor its performance and tune its strategy to its customers.

Some of your tasks might be:

• Developing and maintaining analytic solutions that balance flexible self-service business with fast, maintainable data sets.
• Identifying ways of upholding quality of data processing, data analytics, and continuous integration.
• Liaising with data engineering and data analysis teams to develop structured and well-defined data sets.

To be our next colleague, we will have experience in a similar role with strong software engineering practices. You are naturally curious and excited about engineering performant datasets and enjoy asking questions to understand problem spaces. With great analytical skills and a customer-centric approach, you like making sense of and structure data so it can be intuitively consumed. As we work with dozens of teams that support Viaplay’s daily operations, your communication skills will be prized as you will be an enabler for change.

Ideal candidates also meet the following requirements:

• At least 5+ years of experience in building and maintaining novel large scale data sets using both SQL, Python, and Spark.
• Comfortable supporting as a technical mentor in all things analytics engineering.
• Significant experience with developing and scheduling ETL flows, analyzing and handling DAG dependencies, and optimizing queries and partitions for speed and performance when serving insights to users.
• Values the importance of strong operations and maintenance practices of technical stack to ensure consistent system performance.
• Able to design and implement data flows that support Tableau or similar reporting tools.
• Experience working with or setting up large scale data warehouse
• Experience of working in a cloud environment (e.g. AWS).
• Great communication skills (written and visual reports, dashboards, and presentations).
• Experience in media or streaming is a bonus.

Our HQ is in Stockholm, but our market is the Nordics. You will become part of an amazing company with great people, content and culture. Some of the benefits we offer you when working here are:

• A hybrid and flexible work model to make it able to work part-time remotely.
• An agile approach, freedom to try out new things and independent decision-making by our autonomous teams.
• A place to grow and learn from our mistakes. We have a learning and development focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training and regular internal technical talks, pair programming and mob programming.
• An innovative environment with hackdays two times a year.
• An international and diverse environment with people from all over the world working here. We have 35+ different nationalities in the office coming from different backgrounds.
• An attractive offer with a beneficial occupational pension plan, insurance plan, health care, 30 days of paid vacation, flexible work hours and parental leave pay lift.

If this feels like your kind of challenge, please apply and attach your CV and cover letter.

Viaplay Group AB (publ.) is committed to equality and diversity and we welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and marital status. We want to make sure your recruitment experience is the best it can be – so, if you’re selected for an interview, please let us know if there are any adjustments we can make that would be helpful for you.

Viaplay Group AB (publ.) is the Nordic region’s leading entertainment provider. We entertain millions of people every day with our streaming services, TV channels and radio stations, and our production companies create content that is experienced around the world. We make life more entertaining by telling stories, touching lives and expanding worlds – from live sports, movies and series to music and original shows. Headquartered in Stockholm, Viaplay Group is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (‘VPLAY A’ and ‘VPLAY B’).

Streaming services, radio networks, TV and production companies. It's our mission to create compelling stories that reach beyond media outlets and touch people's lives.