FE seeks a Junior Data Engineer for FE’s BI team

Do you want to help strengthen critical decision-making processes in an organization where data is part of our DNA? We are looking for a new data engineer to join FE’s newly established cross-functional BI team, which supports administrative and operational BI needs.

Description

The BI team is responsible for supporting strategic and managerial decisions with assumption-building and relevant data foundation and BI reports. We work with establishing data flows and modeling data to ensure consolidated datasets for further presentation on our BI platform. As a data engineer you will play a key role in developing robust and scalable ETL flows from source to BI platform. You will be responsible for modeling underlying BI data models in close collaboration with our BI specialists.

The team consists of a team lead as well as back-end and front-end resources who work closely together to develop good solutions for our users. As part of the team you will engage in close professional collaboration with FE’s IT organization.

We are a new team, and you will therefore have influence on how cross-functional BI support should be developed and managed. You will become part of a team with a high tempo and high professional level, where curiosity, can-do attitude, collaboration and the desire to strengthen Denmark's security drive our work. We have a strong focus on further developing our capabilities in relation to technological advances and opportunities to use AI for agentic coding and quality assurance, optimization of our data pipelines, and Conversational BI.

As a Data Engineer in FE’s BI team your tasks will include

• Source data analysis
• Development of ETL flows from source to BI platform
• Development of underlying BI data models
• Documentation
• Management of production ETL flows

Your background

We imagine that you have a higher education in IT. You have experience with and knowledge of developing data flows and data modeling. You have an interest in working with databases and optimization, and a desire to learn more about the area. Your skills support analysis of source data models from different systems as well as modeling of data models for further presentation in BI reports. You are proactive in your approach to tasks and work in a structured way.

Additionally, it is advantageous if you have experience with

• Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server technology stack
• Advanced SQL
• ETL tools and data integration
• Power BI (or similar BI platforms e.g. Qlik, Tableau)
• GitLab
• C#, Python, PowerShell.

Your new workplace

The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (FE) is Denmark's foreign intelligence service and works – covertly and openly – to protect Denmark and Danish interests in a changing world.

We are not alone in protecting Denmark, but we are the only authority that has been mandated to employ very special means to uncover what other states and foreign actors attempt to keep secret. It makes sense for us to contribute to peace, safety and security for Danes, both in the analog and the digital world, and we do this by uncovering, assessing, advising on, and counteracting both current threats and threats in development.

We value the strength of our diversity with deep expertise and specialists, and we are a very special and operationally oriented knowledge organization that has many different tasks, but all share the knowledge base that our intelligence work creates.

Your salary package depends on your qualifications

Salary and employment terms are in accordance with the collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the relevant professional organization, depending on your educational background. In addition, you have the opportunity to negotiate a pay supplementary based on qualifications. The average working time is 37 hours per week including paid lunch break. The position includes a pension scheme funded by FE.

As an employee of FE you are subject to special terms. It is a requirement that you can obtain and maintain a security clearance during your entire employment. As in the rest of the Defence, you have a duty for short-term deployments abroad.

How to apply for the position

You must submit your application, CV and diploma/certificates via the job posting, no later than November 11, 2026. We expect the initial interviews to take place at the beginning of week 47 and in week 48, and we aim to hire from February 1, 2027. We encourage all interested individuals regardless of personal background to apply.

You are welcome to contact the local HR partner at [email protected] if you have questions about the position or would like more information.

You can also read more at www.fe-ddis.dk, where you can, among other things, find our “INDBLIK” and get a more detailed insight into FE’s tasks, FE as an workplace and further information about employment questions.

Workplace

You will have a fixed duty station at Østerbro in Copenhagen.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Application deadline: November 11, 2026