- Location
- Sandefjord, Norway
- Type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
SUMMARY OF THE ROLE
Jotun is accelerating its digital transformation journey, and data is becoming an increasingly important driver of business value, innovation, and decision-making. To strengthen our Data & Analytics capabilities, we are looking for a Solution Owner Snowflake who will take ownership of our global Snowflake platform and help ensure that it remains robust, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient.In this newly established role, you will act as the bridge between business needs, data initiatives, and technical capabilities. You will work closely with data owners, project managers, architects, platform specialists, and business stakeholders across Jotun's global organization to drive adoption, governance, and continuous platform improvement.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys combining technology, stakeholder collaboration, and strategic platform ownership while helping build the foundation for data-driven decision-making and future AI initiatives.
The position will have work location at our headquarters in Sandefjord, Norway.
As Solution Owner Snowflake, you will:
Own and govern the Snowflake platform, ensuring stability, scalability, and alignment with business requirements.
Define and drive the platform roadmap, including new functionality and continuous improvements.
Ensure consistent, efficient, and cost-conscious use of the platform across domains.
Support Jotun's transition towards a decentralized and product-oriented data approach while maintaining a trusted source of data.
Define and implement standards, architectural principles, and best practices together with architects and platform stakeholders.
Coordinate platform development activities with business stakeholders, data owners, project teams, and vendors.
Support and guide projects utilizing the platform and ensure successful adoption across the organization.
Facilitate onboarding, knowledge sharing, and user enablement activities.
Monitor platform usage and optimize costs in line with FinOps principles.
Ensure strong governance related to data quality, security, and compliance.
Collaborate with Snowflake and other external partners to evaluate opportunities and leverage new capabilities.
Enable increased data consumption, analytics capabilities, self-service solutions, and AI use cases
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR AND WHAT WE OFFER
We believe you will succeed in this role if you have:
Experience within Data & Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Platforms, Data Warehousing, or related fields.
A good understanding of modern data platform architectures and cloud-based technologies.
Experience collaborating with both business and technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to drive initiatives from idea to implementation.
Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud-based data warehouse platforms is an advantage.
Knowledge of SQL, data modelling, data integration, or cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP is beneficial.
Higher education within IT, Data, Engineering, or a related discipline is desirable, but relevant experience may compensate.
Understanding of AI and machine learning use cases is considered a plus.
Personal requirements
Analytical – you enjoy understanding complex challenges and identifying practical solutions.
Structured and quality-oriented – you create clarity, establish standards, and ensure consistent execution.
Curious and eager to learn – you stay updated on emerging technologies and continuously seek improvement.
Collaborative – you build strong relationships and work effectively across teams, cultures, and disciplines.
Influential and proactive – you take initiative and drive progress without relying on formal authority.
Adaptable and resilient – you navigate change confidently while balancing governance and innovation.
What we offer
Competitive compensation and benefits
Continuous learning opportunities and training activities through on-the-job training and our in-house learning Jotun Academy
Career development opportunities across multiple disciplines and geographies
Leaders who focus on engaging and enabling their team, proven by consistently high employee feedback scores
A supportive and inclusive company culture where you can be your authentic self, and where we have an informal work environment with few hierarchies
A focus on having fun together through team buildings and social activities
POSITION INFORMATION
Company:
Jotun A/S
Contract type:
Time Type:
Full time
CLOSING DATE (dd.mm.yyyy):
WHO WE ARE
Jotun has protected property for almost a century – from iconic buildings to beautiful homes. As one of the world's leading paints and coatings manufacturers, we combine high quality with creativity and innovations.
Jotun's global headquarters is located in Sandefjord, Norway. Here, Jotun Norway has 1000 employees working in state-of-the-art facilities covering services from local factory operations at Vindal to global product development in our new research and development centre at Sandefjord, one of Northern Europe's largest privately owned R&D centres. The administration centre for Europe and Central Asia is located in Sandefjord, together with our local Norwegian operations.
We provide various career opportunities in finance and administration, IT, sales and marketing, supply chain, engineering, technical, and research and development.
Jotun is committed to an ambitious growth strategy. We believe that the real value in our companies is our employees, both as individuals and as teams. We focus on providing our employees with meaningful and challenging work, rewarding them through continued learning and development driven by our values of Loyalty, Care, Respect and Boldness.
Visit our Career Page to learn more about life at Jotun.
Jotun’s company culture welcomes and values differences in people. Our more than 10,200 employees on all continents represent 90 nationalities, four generations and a diversity of professions, genders, abilities, ethnicities, beliefs, cultures, etc. We are committed to representing the societies we operate in, promoting equality, equity and zero-tolerance for discrimination.
If you are applying for a position and require additional support in the interview process, please let us know how we can accommodate this.
If you think this role is what you could do next, apply now!