Staff Data Engineer

Marks & Spencer Plc; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Holiday entitlement

Discretionary bonus

Pension & Life Assurance

Induction and training

M&S Choices perks

Parental/adoption policies

Wellbeing support

Volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer Plc is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to design and build scalable data solutions within the BEAM Cloud Data Platform, partnering with product and delivery teams to democratise data across the business. You will lead a small squad of engineers, own complex ETL pipelines, and shape data frameworks and policies to improve quality and speed.

This role offers an inclusive, dynamic environment where you can contribute to a best-in-class data platform and help colleagues and customers

Qualifications

• Leadership mentality and business acumen.
• Expertise in cloud-based data technologies and data warehousing design (preferably Azure).
• Experience designing end-to-end data solutions and ETL tooling (Databricks, SQL).

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high-quality data solutions with automation in the cloud.
• Provide technical leadership to a small squad of engineers.
• Own complex backlog items and deliver consistently with minimal issues.
• Lead the development of M&S data frameworks and policies.
• Support engineers to produce clean, high-quality code via reviews and pairing.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable ETL pipelines aligned to business goals.

Skills

Leadership mindset

Cloud data technologies

Azure data warehousing

End-to-end data solutions

ETL tools (Databricks, SQL)

Python/SQL/Spark

Tools

Databricks

SQL

Spark

Python

Job description

We are seeking a passionate Staff Data Engineer to support the delivery of our data transformation. Working within a squad of data engineers, you will work with partners from across the business to implement the data strategy, delivering value to the organisation and achieving our goal of democratising data. You will be an advocate for our industry leading BEAM Cloud Data Platform. As an equal partner with the Product and Delivery teams you will deliver elegant and robust solutions for complex problems affecting our customers and colleagues. You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class data engineering function. We are looking for people to join our community of engineers to drive this transformation, build a modern data platform using exciting technologies and do the best work of their careers.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

• Design, build and maintain high-quality, reliable data solutions and own it with a high degree of automation in the cloud
• Provide technical leadership to a small squad of engineers
• Own complex tasks in the backlog and deliver them routinely with no significant issues
• Lead in the development of M&S standard data frameworks and policies, ensuring that they are understood and adopted
• Support other data engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals

Who you are

• Demonstrable leadership mentality, business acuity, and big-picture approach
• Expertise in cloud-based data technologies and data warehousing design principles, preferably Azure
• Expert in design/build of end-to-end data solutions
• Demonstrable experience with ETL tools, e.g. Databricks, SQL
• Demonstrable experience with Python/SQL/Spark

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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