Data Engineer

We’ve been the go-to for the freshest trainer and apparel releases since 2005, whether it’s big name brands or emerging bedroom labels we’ve got it covered. With over 65 high-street stores across the UK, we’re taking over the high street one step at a time.

The Opportunity

We’re hiring for a Data Engineer to join our Data team. As a Data Engineer you will support the growth of the Data Engineering function; mentor junior members of the team and help build effective practices that drive a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

You will be part of a growing team, developing the data engineering community of practice and defining data standards across the organisation.

The Team

The data team is an enabling team and as such it is important to note that we are a key function for all other teams across the business. We consist of two teams – Business Intelligence Developers and Data Engineering – who work closely alongside each other from end to end. We design solutions together and share best practice. Within the teams we recognise individual skillsets and encourage knowledge sharing sessions and self-development.

About You

We are looking for a driven individual who has a keen eye for detail and strives to ensure that they produce accurate information through visually appealing reporting. Ideally, you will be comfortable liaising with technical teams to understand how business processes reflect in the data produced and are able to relay this back to senior stakeholders at executive level.

What you will do:

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• Contribute towards the next phase of our data strategy.
  
• Deliver the engineering roadmap and champion data engineering across the business.
  
• Contribute towards design and implementation decisions using principles and best practices, making decisions that move the architecture forward.
  
• Empower junior engineers and drive standard methodologies across different data technologies, finding new ways to solve emerging problems.
  
• Support a learning culture by coaching junior engineers to make sound technical decisions and help build effective engineering practices, stabilising and optimising the data platform.
  
• Support the development of the first Data Engineering community of practice.
  
• Be an advocate for standard methodologies and strong CI /CD principles, govern engineering standards and policies across the business.
  
• Advocate working in the open by demonstrating your work; use creative ways to bring to life the value of the Data Engineering team.
  
• Drive a data driven culture, ensuring data is at the forefront of decision making across product teams and the business.
  
• Work with the business and data team to establish a self-service data culture.
  

Skills you will need:

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• 5 years+ working in Data Engineering function.
  
• Databricks, Data Factory, Azure SQL, Azure SQL DW.
  
• Delivering enterprise scale data solutions, infrastructure, and architecture.
  
• Managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment alongside evolving the data tech stack and practices.
  
• Knowledge of emerging technologies and how they can be used to solve modern business problems.
  

Why Footasylum?

We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills. Our aim is to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building services to customers and the wider business. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.

Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way, in Rochdale.