Overview

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. We aim to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

What's the job?

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the overall technical direction, standards, and principles of the data engineering practices. You will lead all aspects of the build, development, and design of data products in line with the business or technical demands.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Providing a framework for data engineering best practices and principles by setting coding standards, peer review process, etc.
• Staying abreast of the industry data engineering technology roadmap to stay at the leading edge of tooling for integration, streaming, and transformation of high volume data sets.
• Providing technical direction to the engineering teams and upskilling teams to showcase good practice technology delivery.
• Providing engineering support as required to the data engineering resource within the delivery team.
• Providing urgent support for technical blockers and escalation for any issues in the production environment.
• Being a highly effective coach/mentor who leads by example with an approachable demeanour.
• Applying critical thinking to problems and tasks.
• Planning own work to meet given objectives and processes.
• Working within the wider community of PE’s, Seniors, and Product Owners to shape the future of the Data platform.

What you'll bring

Required Skills & Experience:

• Highly skilled in building large scale distributed data processing systems (or experience in equal measure).
• Subject Matter Expert on building and delivering data products.
• Programming in multiple languages within our data eco-system e.g., Python.
• Implementing cloud data technologies on either GCP, Azure, or AWS.
• Experience of mentoring and coaching data engineers.
• Building and maintaining constructive and collaborative business relationships with other teams and functions.
• Advocating Agile delivery methodologies.

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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