Senior Data Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom

12/6/2024

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. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher 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. Leading 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. - Responsible for providing technical direction to the engineering teams and upskilling teams to showcase good practice technology delivery. - Provides engineering support as required to the data engineering resource within the delivery team. - Provides urgent support for technical blockers and escalation for any issues in the production environment. - Highly effective coach/mentor who is able to lead by example with an approachable demeanour. - Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks. - Plans own work to meet given objectives and processes. - Works 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). They are SME on building and delivering data products. - Programming in multiple languages within our data eco-system e.g. Python. - Implement cloud data technologies on either GCP, Azure or AWS. - Experience of mentoring and coaching data engineers. - Experience of building and maintaining constructive and collaborative business - relationships with other teams and functions - Advocate of Agile delivery methodologies

Be Customer Focused – constantly improving our customers’ experience

• I listen to my customers
• I use available data to help make decisions
  
  

Be Human – acting with humanity and care

• I do the right thing
• I am respectful
  
  

Be Curious – thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• I build and share new ideas
• I try new things and share my learnings
  
  

Be Agile – working with trust, pace and agility

• I have courage to be creative
• Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20
  
  

Be Inclusive – acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together

• I embrace allyship
• I have self-awareness and a desire to learn
  
  

Be Accountable – championing the plan to deliver results and growth

• I own my actions
• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role
  
  

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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