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As Danfoss accelerates its AI journey, trusted, scalable, and well-governed data is critical to turning AI ambitions into measurable business results. In this role, you will help create the platform that enables AI, analytics, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.\nYou will play a key role in establishing both the technical foundation and the engineering practices of a team that is currently being built. Working closely with data, analytics, AI, and business teams, you will define architectures, governance standards, and AI-ready data products that allow solutions to scale globally. Beyond your technical contributions, you will provide day-to-day technical leadership, mentor team members, and help shape the culture, standards, and ways of working of the AI Hub. This is a unique opportunity to combine hands-on engineering with the chance to influence the direction of a growing team from the very beginning.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nEnable AI and analytics at scale by building and evolving trusted Databricks-based data platforms, architectures, and data products.\nDeliver reliable, AI-ready data by designing and maintaining scalable data models, pipelines, and integration frameworks that support critical business use cases.\nEstablish best practices for data governance, security, quality, and platform management, ensuring data can be used confidently across the organization.\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to a growing team, helping define engineering standards, ways of working, and development practices.\nDrive adoption of data and AI solutions by partnering with engineers, analysts, product owners, and business stakeholders across Danfoss Power Solutions.\nWhat We're Looking For\nExperience with Databricks or similar cloud-based data platforms.\nHands-on experience designing and maintaining scalable data architectures, data models, and ETL/ELT pipelines.\nProficiency in SQL and Python.\nExperience with data governance, data quality, data security, and access management practices.\nAbility to communicate complex concepts clearly and collaborate effectively in fluent English with both technical and business stakeholders.\nWhat You'll Get from Us\nThe opportunity to help establish the enterprise data platform that powers AI adoption across Danfoss Power Solutions.\nA visible role in shaping a newly growing AI Hub, influencing technical direction, engineering standards, and platform strategy.\nThe chance to expand your leadership experience through mentoring, coaching, and guiding a team that is still being built.\nExposure to enterprise-scale AI, analytics, governance, and cloud data initiatives across a global organization.\nWe promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.\nYou’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. 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