Join Pandora to help lead one of the most compelling data engineering challenges in 2026: the Data & AI Platform that sits underneath the world's largest jewellery company. The platform serves teams across consumer engagement, retail supply chain, finance, merchandising, and manufacturing, operating across more than 100 countries and 6,800 points of sale. What it enables sets the ceiling on what the rest of the business can do with data.
As Lead Engineer for the Data Platform, you are the most senior IC on the team. You set the technical direction for the platform alongside the Engineering Manager, unblock the engineers around you, and personally lead the highest-leverage, highest-risk initiatives end to end — from problem framing through rollout and adoption.
Key responsibilities:
- Set the technical direction for the Data & AI Platform; own the architecture across Databricks, the Microsoft Fabric and Power BI platform layer.
- Lead the highest-leverage, highest-risk initiatives end to end — from problem framing through delivery, rollout, and adoption across product teams.
- Raise the engineering bar across the team through design reviews, code reviews, incident reviews, and patterns that scale beyond a single service.
- Partner with the Engineering Manager on roadmap, staffing, and the technical trade-offs behind them.
- Represent the platform in Pandora-wide architecture and governance forums; influence peer teams so the platform is adopted, not imposed.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; multiply the impact of the people around you rather than bottlenecking on yourself.
- Drive the patterns for batch, streaming, and ML/AI workloads, and for data contracts and shared schemas that make interoperability across domains the default.
What you bring:
- Track record leading the technical direction of a production data or developer platform at scale, with measurable adoption across many product teams.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems design, polyglot engineering, and infrastructure-as-code at scale. Strong coding skills in Python; comfort in at least one additional language.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, and Spark (or equivalent lakehouse technologies), and working knowledge of the Microsoft data ecosystem — Fabric, Power BI, Azure.
- Deep Terraform and CI/CD experience, including modules, workspaces, and policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel, or equivalent) across multi-account patterns.
- Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of platform capabilities.
Nice to have:
- Experience building internal developer platforms, platform SDKs, or golden paths that product teams consume at scale.
- Familiarity with FinOps practices — cost modelling, chargeback and showback, optimising compute, storage, and egress at scale.
- Background in retail, consumer products, manufacturing, or another multi-region, multi-domain enterprise.
Did we get your attention?
We hope you got all your questions answered and feel confident applying for this position. If you see yourself in the role and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please do not hesitate to apply! We are an international team, so please make sure to send us your application in English to be considered. We look forward to hearing from you!
We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com.
Icing on the cake:
You will be working out of our beautiful Digital & Technology Hub in Copenhagen, in a rapidly growing environment of highly skilled and experienced colleagues, which is a key initiative that goes along with Pandora’s experience & ambitions.Besides our beautiful interior design, we are also proud of our LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design. This means that we use as few natural resources as possible and that we use them with respect. The result is a professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational – and delivers a true Pandora experience to anyone who works here or comes to visit.
About Pandora:
Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 7,000 points of sale, including more than 2,800 concept stores.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs around 39,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery with 100% recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 32.5 billion (EUR 4.4 billion) in 2025.
