GLOBAL DATA ENGINEER London, England
Job description
Dr. Martens is a globally famous and culturally influential British brand with over 60 years of heritage. Our products have become cultural icons, instantly recognisable and with timeless appeal, which is still relevant to consumers across the world today.
As brand custodians, we are lucky to work for a dynamic, thriving, and ethical business, with people from diverse
backgrounds, who bring their true selves to work, and where anyone can grow their career. Do you have what it takes?
THE GIG
The D&A Team has set the vision “To make every DM decision better with data” and is embarking on a transformational journey to “Execute faster in creating trust, access and value globally from all our data to empower our colleagues to stride forwards”. It is an exciting time to join the D&A team, with the opportunity to both set and guide the team and DM’s strategic direction.
As our Data Engineer you will be at the forefront of the team working on our data pipelines and data warehouse. You will be central to the success of the global Data Transformation initiative. We are at the beginning of the journey, so you will get the opportunity to define our data engineering approach, making fundamental changes through the design and implementation of a modern data ecosystem that underpins DMs bold growth ambitions. You will work closely with the broader business, supporting, challenging, and championing data and analytics for better decision making.
You will also be responsible for:
- Working independently, this will require the need for you to be able to not only work on tasks assigned to you with minimal help from your peers but also to be proactive on issues found during your working day.
- You will be responsible for representing the team in all data project meetings.
- Establishing the data warehouse as a trusted, stable, and reliable source of insight for the business
- Building and maintaining robust and efficient data pipelines to bring internal and external data sources into our cloud-based platform for processing and ingesting into the DW
- Building analytics datasets that utilise our pipelines to provide actionable insights into customer understanding, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
- You will possess strong organisational skills and attention to detail, including the ability to manage multiple tasks autonomously
- You strive for improvement in your work and that of others, proactively identifying issues and opportunities
- Provide hands-on support to users reporting data incidents, helping the wider team triage and respond to user queries promptly
- Embedding technical architecture and documentation standards, governance, policies, processes, and procedures.
YOUR FUNDAMENTAL QUALITIES
To be our Global Office Data Engineer your technical capability will go hand in hand with:
- Great relationship management that delivers results through effective teamwork
- You’ll be a proud custodian to our DM’s culture, embodying what we stand for and encouraging others to do the same.
- You will bring the outside-in; you’ll share best practice across the team / business and encourage idea sharing as well as collaborative problem solving
THE STUFF THAT SETS YOU APART
- Azure and its various services
- Advanced SQL skills
- Azure Data Factory and Logic Apps development and orchestration
- Cloud data warehouse platforms such as Azure Data Warehouse, Synapse or Snowflake
- Developing Spark/Databricks pipelines using Python
- Event-driven architecture and data streaming
- Implementing data lake standards and best practice
- Data warehouse design and modelling skills such as dimensional or Data Vault 2.0.
- Agile delivery methodologies, Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Supporting a BI Development team in maintaining data warehouse and pipeline development best practices
OUR FUNDAMENTAL QUALITIES
It’s never just a job at Dr. Martens. It’s a way of life. We live and breathe our Fundamentals: INTEGRITY. PROFESSIONAL. PASSIONATE. TEAM PLAYERS.
We’re a diverse bunch who believe each role is as unique as the person who does it.
Are you ready to fill your boots? Apply now.
At Dr. Martens, we are committed to creating an environment where we can all be proud to work and be our best. Part of this commitment is being an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, and age.
