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Sr Data Engineer
Sinch
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Source date: 10/23/2026
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Job Description ABOUT SINCH Sinch is pioneering the way the world communicates. More than 200,000 businesses — including Google, Uber, Paypal, Visa, Tinder, and many others — rely on Sinch’s Customer Communications Cloud to power engaging customer experiences through mobile messaging, voice, and email. Whether you need to verify users or craft omnichannel campaigns, Sinch makes it easy. Our AI-infused Super Network, APIs, and applications ensure you can connect with your customers reliably and securely, at every step of their journey. At Sinch we “Dream Big”, “Win Together”, “Keep it simple”, and “Make it Happen”. These values are our foundation! DESCRIPTION Join our team at Sinch as a Senior Data Engineer, where you'll be responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and optimizing data pipelines across our global product portfolio. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, embrace AI-assisted development, and explore emerging innovations such as AI agents, agentic workflows, and intelligent automation to shape the future of data engineering at Sinch. We're seeking someone with a proven background in SQL, Python, and ETL/ELT, who takes a proactive approach to solving complex challenges and building scalable, reliable data solutions. Beyond traditional data engineering, we value an innovative mindset and curiosity about how AI-powered development tools, LLMs, and autonomous agents can improve engineering productivity, automate workflows, and unlock new possibilities across our data platforms. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead, drive, and implement impactful initiatives in a rapidly growing global business. You'll play an important role in evolving our data architecture, championing modern engineering practices, and exploring how emerging AI technologies can transform the way we build and operate data solutions. Lead data engineering projects, driving technical decisions and ensuring successful delivery of scalable, high-quality solutions. Act as a technical authority, supporting leadership and mentoring team members on architecture, engineering practices, and emerging technologies. Champion engineering excellence through code reviews, automation, AI-assisted development, and continuous improvement. Promote modern data engineering practices, encouraging innovation and the adoption of new tools and technologies across teams. Explore opportunities to leverage AI agents, LLMs, and agentic workflows to automate development tasks, streamline data operations, and improve engineering efficiency. Drive data integration efforts across diverse platforms and products, enabling seamless access to reliable data throughout Sinch. Contribute to the development, performance, quality, monitoring, and maintenance of data pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. Identify opportunities to improve our products, business processes, and data architecture through insightful data analysis, intelligent automation, and innovative engineering solutions. REQUIREMENTS We believe you are a professional skilled in pipeline development and governance, with experience in tools for virtualization and a background in real-time data processing. Your organizational prowess is evident in breaking down projects efficiently, and your expertise extends to designing new data architectures with a focus on security standard processes. Your diverse skills make you a valuable asset, poised to drive innovative data solutions for our dynamic team and evolving business. Proficient in software development with expertise in Python, Spark, Git, CI/CD, and Docker. Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar) to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation while maintaining high standards of code quality, security, and maintainability. Skilled in using SQL for data querying and ETL/ELT development. Strong interest in emerging AI technologies, particularly AI agents and agentic workflows, with a curiosity for exploring how LLMs, autonomous agents, and AI-driven automation can enhance data engineering processes and developer productivity. Experience in structuring and storing large volumes of data in data lakes and warehouses. Capable of fixing and optimizing data pipelines for enhanced performance and reliability. Familiarity with data pipeline orchestration tools like Airflow, Dagster, and experience using Databricks. Cloud experience in AWS or GCP. Knowledgeable about various data architectures such as Data Lake, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric. Strong communication skills with fluency in English for engaging with stakeholders from technical and business areas. Our corporate language is English, please submit your application in English. This role is hybrid role based in Stockholm and reporting to the Data Engineering Manager. Candidates must have the right to work in Sweden. Relocation and work permit sponsorship are not available for this role. OUR HIRING PROCESS We are committed to ensuring a recruitment process that is fair, objective, consistent, and inclusive. Our approach includes structured, competency-based interviews designed to evaluate your skills, experience, and qualifications relevant to the role. At times, we may include a data-driven assessment to enhance our hiring success and identify candidates likely to excel. We believe in a two-way process and encourage you to ask questions throughout the journey. If this role isn't what you're looking for, please explore the other opportunities listed on our career page: https://www.sinch.com/careers/. No matter who you are, we hope you find an exciting path forward - hopefully with us! Salary: The monthly salary for this position is between 60 000 – 72 000 SEK. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include skills, education, experience, and other qualifications. Sinch is a global customer engagement platform that provides communication services for businesses across messaging, voice, and email. Sinch's services are used by more than 150,000 businesses, including many of the world's largest tech companies. Through strategic acquisitions and fast organic growth, Sinch has turned into an international powerhouse serving enterprises across the globe and handling over 700 billion engagements per year. In fact, independent analysts say we're a CPaaS leader! Job Info Job Identification 1704 Job Category Data Engineering Posting Date 10/23/2026 Apply Before 12/31/2026 Job Schedule Full time Locations Lindhagensgatan 112, Stockholm, 112 51, SE (Hybrid)