Senior HR Data Engineer

Deutsche Post DHL Group; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Deutsche Post DHL Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior HR Data Engineer to lead end-to-end ETL and data integration projects within HR. You will drive architecture, ensure secure, automated data flows, and partner with HR BPO towers to align processes with standards.

The role requires deep HR data design expertise, strong SQL and Python skills, and experience with Oracle HCM or equivalent systems. You will contribute to data quality and analytics across HR domains.

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL, Python, Oracle HCM – or equivalent, HDL, Business Objects, ETL, KNIME, RPA design.
• Experience designing HR data domains and integration patterns.
• Familiarity with HR IT landscape and data governance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-complexity ETL/SQL transformations and migrations.
• Define data-flow and automation architecture; specify integration patterns.
• Review HR BPO tower requirements for data integration and standards conformance.
• Understand HR IT landscape and inter-system dependencies; support data flow.
• Design HR master data domains with object definitions and naming standards.
• Develop Python scripts for data auditing and automation of data reconciliation.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Oracle HCM

ETL

KNIME

RPA design

Tools

HDL

Business Objects

Job description

BE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Position: Senior HR Data Engineer

Contract Type: Full time – permanent

Travel Required: Less than 20%

Location: UKI//NORAM

At DHL our business is logistics, but people are our passion. With over 500,000 team members in 220 countries, we attract and retain great talent. We are one of the most innovative, most culturally diverse companies on the planet. We provide unmatched opportunities for personal and professional development. We really are a “Best Place to Work”.

The Senior HR Data Engineer is the senior technical authority in HR Data Engineering, blending advanced HR functional and technical skill to design and build high-complexity data transformation, migration, integration and automation solutions. The role is primarily project-based and takes on the projects that vary to a greater degree — those beyond the recurring, cookbook patterns handled at Engineer level.

Working automation-first, process-first and security-by-design, the Sr Engineer leads design of end-to-end ETL / SQL transformation and migration and defines data-flow and advise on automation architecture — identifying the need for and defining new integration and RPA flow patterns. Deeply knowledgeable in HR data-design standards and best practices, the role serves as the functional review and approval for process-tower integration requirements, working alongside the HR Business Process Optimization (BPO) towers to define systems data-flow requirements and approaches.

The Sr Engineer brings deep expertise in the HR IT landscape and its interdependencies, understands how adjacent systems consume and react to HR data, and is expert at designing HR data domains for both operational processing effectiveness and business insight.

If this sounds like a team, you'd like to join … keep reading.

Your key accountabilities include

• High-Complexity Design & Build — design and build high-complexity solutions on the projects that vary most from recurring patterns: end-to-end ETL / SQL transformation and migration (SME), advanced loading (Oracle (or equivalent) Business objects, HDL, custom templates) and automated reconciliation.
• Data-Flow & Automation Architecture — identify the need for and define new integration and RPA / automation flow patterns; set the architecture that Engineers build to.
• Integration Requirements Review — check HR BPO process-tower requirements and design intents against standards and best practices; serve as the functional review / approval for integration requirements and work alongside the towers to define systems data-flow requirements and approaches.
• HR IT Landscape & Adjacent Systems — bring deep expertise in HR processes and the HR IT landscape, its interdependencies and data-exchange methods; understand how adjacent systems consume and react to HR data, and actively support defining the business rules by which those systems react to incoming HR data based on each system's function and purpose.
• HR Data Domain Design — design HR master data domains — object definitions (per system-vendor definitions), field-to-object determination for custom fields, lists of values (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive), and naming standards and structure — ensuring data serves both operational processing effectiveness and business insight and analytics.
• Data Auditing & Automation — develop Python for data auditing to support HR Data Management (HRDM) Operations QA and migration activities; develop medium-to-complex RPA data flow patterns that pre-qualify data for further processing and loading and automate data reconciliation.

What are we looking for from you?

• Technical (advanced): advanced SQL, Python, Oracle HCM – or equivalent - (HDL, business objects), ETL, KNIME, RPA design.
• Architecture & standards: data-flow and integration pattern design; HR data-domain design (objects, custom fields, lists of values, naming standards); HR IT landscape and inter-system dependencies; data-design standards and best-practice SME; functional review / approval.
• Ways of working: project delivery on higher-variability work; consultative partnering with HR BPO towers; functional Workforce Admin / Employee Data Admin, Time & Attendance & Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, and Recruiting & Onboarding process SME; agile as core; security by design.

We will ensure that all our resourcing activities are fair, transparent, and consistent across the Globe. We want to ensure that the candidate experience is of the highest professional standard.

The Company is committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. Furthermore, we aim to ensure our workplaces are free from discrimination and that not only employees but also our potential future employees are treated fairly and with dignity and respect. We will ensure that equality of opportunity maintains a high profile in our organisation.