Senior Data Engineer (Maternity Cover)

What we are looking for:

NRC Norway is looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer for a maternity cover position.

You’ll play a key role in building and optimising the data infrastructure that enables NRC to turn complex data into actionable insights. You will design and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes in Microsoft Fabric across data lakes and data warehouses, ensuring that data remains accessible, reliable, and secure. You will also advise on the use of alternative data products when Microsoft Fabric is not the most suitable solution. Working closely with data product managers, analysts and other stakeholders, you’ll translate business needs into effective data solutions, strengthen data quality and governance, and champion modern engineering practices, automation and innovation.

If you’re passionate about data, technology and meaningful humanitarian impact, we’d like to hear from you.

What you will do:

• Ensure that data at NRC is accessible and optimized for use in the organisation.

• Instigate collaboration with program managers and field staff to understand their data needs and ensure that data systems are aligned with operational goals.

• Provide technical leadership, support and guidance to non-technical teams on data processing methods and infrastructure setup.

• Implement best practices for data governance, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and ethical standards.

• Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures, and a specific responsibility for the functions policies and procedures.

• Build data pipelines in Fabric to integrate internal and external data based on existing internal best

practices. This should reflect the current data needs set by SPK, other operational departments and field operations.

• Contribute to the design and continuous improvement of the Fabric environment, supporting secure data sharing across NRC.

• Contribute to developing the infrastructure, governance, and standards required to make data more discoverable and accessible.

• Build and evaluate systems and data pipelines on Microsoft infrastructure, including Azure and Power Apps, for use cases that fall outside Fabric’s scope, such as archiving solutions, and integrations with other NRC systems.

• Architect the data infrastructure inside and outside of Fabric to ensure it is optimized for performance and can handle the (large-scale) data requirements of the organisation.

• Proactively implement data validation checks, monitoring and error-handling processes to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of data.

Please download a more detailed JOB DESCRIPTION to learn more about the position.

What you will bring:

• Proven experience with IT projects.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related subjects, or demonstrable expertise in the field.

• Advanced analytical skills and problem-solving attitude.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable working with a geographically distributed team, and can easily work with non-technical colleagues

• Capable of operating in an "Agile" environment

• Fluency in written and spoken English. Other languages are an asset.

• Proactive in keeping up to date with industry trends and innovation.

• 5+ years of experience shipping and maintaining code in production.

• Experience working with Microsoft Fabric or other Microsoft reporting tools.

• Experience or deep understanding of data architecture and data modelling.

• Solid knowledge of programming in Python, fundamentals of API design and security, familiarity with basic DevOps is a plus.

• In depth knowledge and comfortable working with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and nonrelational data (JSON format) including building, optimizing, debugging, and creating queries and safe migration scripts.

• Familiarity in working with enterprise information systems in general, and especially ERP and CRM, are desirable.

What we offer:

• Duty station: NRC Head Office in Oslo, NRC Representation Offices (excluding Geneva and Washington, DC), approved Employer of Record (EoR) countries, and other countries where NRC operates, provided they are within ±2 hours of Oslo time.

• Contract: Maternity Cover (12 Months).

• Travel: Up to 5%.

• Salary/benefits: Grade 9 on NRC’s Resident salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions.

• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.

• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

Find out more about the benefits of working for NRC

Important information about the application process

• For Internal candidates: To apply as an internal candidate, log in with your official email or click on Opportunity Market Place.

• When creating your profile, include your full name as given on your passport. Complete all the system-required fields for experience, employment history and education.

• Submit your application and CV in English, taking care to attach your latest CV.

• Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.

• We receive many applications for each vacant position and so only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

If you have any questions about this role, please email [email protected] with the job title as the subject line.

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

Watch this short video to see NRC in action.

We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:

• do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.

• join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.

• be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.