Data Management Engineer

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

About the team

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Who are 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

We offer

In the same way that we place high expectations on you as an employee, we also expect you to place high demands on us as an employer. Here are some of the benefits of working at If: 

• An inclusive work environment where everyone is welcome
• Career and development opportunities in the biggest insurance company in the Nordics
• Social activities, as well as highly skilled professional environment
• Health promoting workplace with e.g., wellness allowance and various sports activities
• Great insurance benefits

Additional information and recruitment process
Applying: Please apply through our recruitment system and attach your CV and answer in the questions on the application form. We will start screening and interviewing candidates already during the application period. Please notice that we are not able to handle any applications outside our recruitment system.

Deadline: Last day to apply is May 13th, 2026.

Location: Turku, Espoo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Riga or Oslo

Employment type: Permanent and full-time

Traveling: Requires some occasional traveling in the Nordics and Baltics

Final candidates will undergo a background check before a job offer can be presented. Background checks will be done in accordance with the law in the country of employment.

If have any questions about the position, please contact:

- Norway: Svein F. Tryggestad, svein.f.tryggestad@if.no, +4790649956

- Sweden: Stellan Sardal, stellan.sardal@if.se, +46706881225

- Latvia: Viktorija Ignatova, viktorija.ignatova@if.lv, +37126438 388

- Denmark: Rasmus Dyhrberg, rasmus.dyhrberg@if.dk, +4529775579

- Finland: Kimmo Vuori, kimmo.vuori@if.fi, +358505611366

We are eager to hear from you!