Principal Data Engineer

Job Description

Were looking for a Principal Data Engineer to join our growing Data team. We are offering flexible working from 24hours (minimum) to 40hours (maximum) per week. Remote working is also on offer for this opportunity. The data tech stack in Footasylum hasevolved significantly over the last year, giving us lots of opportunity to use data to better serve our customers and colleagues. We are growing our data team to enable us to unlock more value from the technology we have invested in. We are looking for a PrincipalData Engineer to lead the growth of the Data Engineering function; to lead the recruitment of senior to junior data engineers, mentor the team to build effective engineering practices and drive a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.This is a very exciting opportunity for someone who wants to be able to build their own team, develop the data engineering community of practice, define data standards across the organisation and be part of the leadership team driving the second phase of FootasylumsData Strategy including maturing a data science function. What you will do Influence and contribute towards the next phase of our data strategy leading the contribution of the Data Engineering team. Understand what the strategy means for your team and developyour structure and team mix to deliver the strategy. Establish the engineering roadmap and champion data engineering across the business and throughout the wider community. Lead the Data Engineering team to design, build and run enterprise data solutions withinthe new Azure data platform. Drive design and implementation decisions using principles and best practices, making decisions that move the architecture forward. Empower your team to inspire and drive standard methodologies across different data technologies,finding new ways to solve emerging problems. Be the Tech Lead for product teams, the go-to expert for data solutions, overseeing the data engineering delivery effort across the business. Create a learning culture by coaching and mentoring your engineers tomake sound technical decisions and help build effective engineering practices, stabilising and optimising the data platform. Build the first Data Engineering community of practice, be an advocate for standard methodologies and strong CI /CD principles, governengineering standards and policies across the business. Advocate working in the open by demonstrating your work; run daily stand ups and use creative ways to bring to life the value of the Data Engineering team add to the business in a way that everyone canunderstand. Work closely with other Principals across the department to drive a data driven culture, ensuring data is at the forefront of decision making across product teams and the business. Work with others to establish a self-service data culture, workingclosely with other cross functional teams to share knowledge, evaluate opportunities and recommend improvements across architecture, pipelines, data models and processes This is an exciting role for an experienced Principal Data Engineer who has; A backgroundin technical leadership, solution architecture and significant experience in the Azure data estate and tools. A track record delivering enterprise scale data solutions, infrastructure and architecture. Experience in managing and reducing cost in the cloudby using best practice techniques. Excellent leadership skills, with experience of developing and mentoring a Data Engineering function. Managing multiple priorities in a fast paced environment alongside evolving the data tech stack and practices. Role modellingagile development practices - DevOps, CI, CD, TDD. Knowledge of emerging technologies and how they can be used to solve modern business problems. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a retail environment using agile methodologies with operationaltargets crossing multiple departments. Why Footasylum We have been going through a digital transformation, changing how we deliver value to our business. A big part of this change is fostering a culture of being open and honest, collaborating, having funand enabling psychological safety. We want to create a place for teams to do their best work, and you will have the opportunity to influence our decisions, help define standards across the teams and contribute to a healthy and happy working environment.TheData TeamThe team and tech stack have evolved significantly over the last year and we now see the Data Engineering function as an opportunity to contribute towards a forward thinking IT department, collaborating with our stakeholders, and thus allowing thedata engineers to focus on working closely with the multi-disciplinary teams and bringing in new data sources. The objective of the data team is to empower the business by using data over opinions and to create efficiencies across the supply chain using machinelearning. The data team is an enabling team and as such it is important to note that we are an important function for both the tech teams and the business. By creating robust solutions that allows us to understand data from our multi-disciplinary teams througheither event based data in our data lake or bringing in other datasets, we can create meaningful insights. The data team have made incredible progress to complete a migration from a traditional on-premise data warehouse to a data lake hosted in Azure. Theyuse Data Factory to create pipelines to push data into the Data Lake, Synapse and SQL DBs to build the reporting cubes and streaming analytics to provide real-time sales and stores dashboards to the business. Salary & Benefits We are offering a salary ofup to £75,000 for the right person (pro-rata dependant on weekly hours), which we assess based on your own experiences, delivery skills and against the principles of our department and our ways of working. Youll also get access to our FA Presents companybenefits platform, 25 days holiday (pro-rata dependant on weekly hours) and pension as standard, and use of our training budget to help you develop your skills. Diversity We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots ofdifferent perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business.