Senior Data Engineer
This is your chance to be a part of the M&S Data Engineering team!
You’ll be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on solutions that serves millions of loyal customers and thousands of colleagues! With ethical values that run right through the company’s core and technology leaders that truly understand data engineers and engineering, it’s an exciting time as we’re redefining ourselves into a digital first and engineering-led organisation, with the quality of our engineering team being a key differentiator.
What’s in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – becoming a part and playing your part. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
- A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we’re proud of at M&S.
- Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave – that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
- Charity Volunteer Day – A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
- A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support – this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family as well as many other schemes.
What you'll be doing
- Design, build and maintain high-quality, reliable data solutions and own it with a high degree of automation in the cloud.
- Provide technical leadership to a small squad of engineers.
- Own complex tasks in the backlog and deliver them routinely with no significant issues.
- Lead in the development of M&S standard data frameworks and policies, ensuring that they are understood and adopted.
- Support other data engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals.
- Drive solution through experimentation and innovation as a culture.
- Work with the data architect to build the core data model for the organisation both from an operational and analytical perspective.
- Support the build of analytical tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights, enabling data driven decision making, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
- Solve problems collaboratively, communicating decisions to customers.
- Approach, contribute and help lead product planning and roadmap with an agile mentality.
- Engage with product colleagues to improve value for the customer and to understand ambiguous requirements.
- Promote technology, innovation, values, and ways of working within the team and wider community.
- Active participation and contribution to technical forums with a focus on positive momentum.
- Coach, mentor and develop by providing the knowledge and assets to less experienced engineers.
- Assist with recruitment and new starter on-boarding activities.
- Help lead initiatives to take M&S Data Engineering to the next level by challenging the status quo.
Who you are
The below points are a guide to what skills we're looking for. If you don't meet all of the points below we still encourage you to apply. Through applying you give yourself the opportunity to be considered!
- Expertise in cloud-based data technologies and data warehousing design principles, preferably Azure.
- Design/build/administration of end-to-end data solutions.
- Experience with ETL tools, e.g. Databricks, SQL.
- Advanced knowledge with schema design and dimensional data modelling, automation processes.
- Expertise in Python/SQL/Spark, and solid expertise with distributed version controls systems like GitHub.
- Continuous integration and Continuous Delivery
- Proficiency of documenting solution design technical decisions and recommendations.
- Ability to work with senior stakeholders, understand requirements and communicate progress.
- A leadership mentality that is willing to take responsibility.
Everyone's welcome
M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.
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