KONE Technology and Innovation (KTI) is where the magic happens at KONE. It's where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to shape the future of the industry with new technologies and sustainable innovations.
We are looking for a
Data Architect, Data Products
to join the KONE IT Enterprise Data & Analytics team in Espoo, Finland. The team leads our Data Foundation initiative—a modern, cloud-based approach to data using the latest architecture to drive digital transformation. This enables scalable AI/ML and digital use cases across the organization. Data products are essential in generating business value, and strong data architecture ensures their reusability and maintainability.
As a Data Architect, you’ll ensure an effective data supply chain within assigned data domains—designing and optimizing the architecture from ingestion to consumption layers, enhancing data product value, and documenting the physical architecture. These domains integrate data from multiple systems, with products serving diverse users across the company.
Your responsibilities include designing, developing, and delivering data products that meet business needs. You’ll provide architecture support to stakeholders, resolve technical issues, and guide data-related problem-solving. You’ll work closely with Product Owners, Data Engineers, Global Data Owners, Enterprise Architects, Data Scientists, and development teams.
Main Responsibilities:
- Analyze business needs, define information and data requirements, and guide end-to-end data pipeline development.
- Design data architectures and models and ensure data quality.
- Drive data innovation, develop new products, and advise consumers on existing data assets and capabilities.
- Translate KONE’s strategy into data requirements, supporting planning and complex implementations from a data architecture perspective.
- Identify improvement needs, integrate them into system and product roadmaps.
- Support incident resolution by identifying root causes in data flows and preparing permanent fixes.
- Catalog data assets and products to improve documentation and usability for consumers.
To succeed in this role, you’ll bring:
- A master’s in engineering, computer science, MIS, or related field.
- 10–12+ years of experience in data architecture, engineering, analytics, or software engineering in enterprise settings.
- Expertise in CRM, ERP, product data management, and business process data. Experience with SAP ERP, Salesforce CRM, and FSM.
- Ability to document and visualize data pipelines and models (3NF, dimensional), and support engineering teams hands-on.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and in applying SDLC, DevSecOps, and DataOps practices across the full pipeline lifecycle.
- Technical mastery of tools such as Databricks, medallion architecture, Unity Catalog, Airflow, DBT, AWS services (Glue, EMR, Athena), Spark, Flink, Kafka, Terraform, and Git platforms. Certifications in AWS/Databricks are a plus.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity, data privacy, compliance, QA, and cloud FinOps.
- Experience mentoring, leading teams, and advancing DataOps maturity.
- Familiarity with agile methods and tools (Jira, Confluence, draw.io).
- Ability to deliver in agile sprints, collaborate globally, self-organize, seek feedback, solve problems, and communicate effectively in English.
Who you are:
We are searching for an enthusiastic person to join the team who is excited about developing own professional skills even further, learning new things and contributing to team success. We are expecting you to take self-driven, proactive approach to your work, find & implement solutions, continuously looks for improvement opportunities in own area, solve problems, make decisions and share the learnings to colleagues. We want to work with people who enjoy teamwork, are not afraid to step out of their comfort zone, want to help others and share information.
For more information, please contact Marika Mattelmäki via email [email protected]
Want to join the #PeopleFlow?
If you are interested in this position, please submit your application including a cover letter and CV via our Careers site www.kone.com/jobs by 8.6.2025.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on www.kone.com/careers
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
