Data Engineer

 

Data Strategy & Design

Finance, Legal & Global Solutions

Denmark, Bagsværd

 

Build the data backbone that powers financial decision-making across a global healthcare leader. Join our core backend team where your pipelines and data solutions will enable Finance teams to operate with speed, accuracy, and insight—ultimately supporting our mission to change lives for millions of patients.

 

Your new role

As a Data Engineer in our core backend team, you'll design and operate the scalable data infrastructure that underpins our Finance Data Centre. Working primarily with Databricks, you'll build robust ETL/ELT processes that transform raw data into reliable, timely insights for our global Finance organization. This is a hands-on technical role where your work directly enables finance teams to make data-driven decisions that matter.

 

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

- Designing, implementing, and operating scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes on Databricks

- Working with raw source systems, data modelling, transformation logic, and orchestration to ensure timely and accurate finance data delivery

- Implementing best practices for data quality, observability, performance, and cost optimization in a cloud environment

- Supporting deployment, CI/CD, and production incident resolution to maintain high system reliability

- Collaborating with product owners, analysts, and architects to translate business requirements into technical solutions that deliver measurable business value

- Ensuring data governance, security, and compliance across all data engineering solutions

- Working in agile, cross-functional teams with a focus on delivering production-ready, high-quality solutions

 

Your new department

You'll join Enterprise Platforms within Novo Nordisk IT, where we deliver a robust and scalable data foundation that enables the global Finance organization to operate efficiently and make insight-driven decisions. Our Finance Data Centre is strengthening its capabilities across our core technology stack—SAP BW/4HANA, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. You'll work alongside solution architects, developers, analysts, and data engineers from diverse technical and multinational backgrounds. We design, build, and maintain data solutions that support core finance processes, with collaboration, business focus, and technical excellence at the heart of how we work. Our goal is to use data to gain new understandings, drive optimizations, and create true business value for Finance, Novo Nordisk, and the patients we serve.

 

In Finance, Legal & Global Solutions, we enable Novo Nordisk to fulfil our purpose by safeguarding the business, providing corporate infrastructure, and driving value creation. We are a team of 2,300 colleagues primarily based at our headquarters in Denmark and our Global Business Services centres in India and Mexico.

 

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in building production-grade data pipelines. You'll thrive in this role if you bring:

 

- Strong hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, notebooks, jobs)

- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and familiarity with Data Engineering frameworks

- Experience with data modelling, ingestion patterns, and orchestration tools

- Knowledge of cloud platform services (Azure/AWS/GCP) relevant to Databricks

- Experience with data observability tools, infrastructure as code, and DevOps practices

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate finance needs into technical solutions

- A collaborative mindset and willingness to work in agile, cross-functional teams

- Strong quality and delivery focus, with the ability to produce robust, production-ready solutions

- Commitment to data governance, security, and compliance

- Fluent spoken and written English

 

Nice to have:

- Interest in finance data and core finance processes—you'll work closely with Finance stakeholders, so business curiosity is valuable

- Experience working in a regulated industry or financial organization

 

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease. 

 

Contact

You are welcome to contact Marta Szabados Ravn (Associate Director) on +45 30 75 34 29 if you have questions about the role. Be advised Marta will not support queries about your recruitment status.

 

Deadline

24 May 2026

 

Please note that we will be assessing applications as we go, so we recommend applying as soon as possible.

 

Please apply in English and refrain from adding a photo to your CV to ensure fair and efficient processing. We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all applicants.

 

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.