Integration & Data Engineer

MM Flowers
Alconbury
1 week ago
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The British flower market is worth £1.2bn and MM Flowers supplies fresh cut flowers and bouquets to the U.K.’s and Europe’s leading flower retailers. We grow and source the highest quality and most beautiful blooms across the world, delivering colour, passion, and inspiration through breath-taking blooms.

Established in 2007, MM Flowers has grown exponentially every year and is based in a purpose built, state-of-the-art facility in Alconbury, Huntingdon. MM Flowers employs over 900 people who are dedicated to delivering exceptional quality and service to our customers.

To continue our tremendous growth, we need the brilliant people to help us achieve our goals. We aim to deliver excellence at every point in the supply chain from distribution to processing, technical standards through to marketing, with consideration for our people and the planet at the heart of everything we do.

If this sounds like a company that you would like to be a part of, and you have the talent, energy, and drive to be a part of shaping our journey, we would love to hear from you.


We are currently looking for an Integration & Data Engineer


The Integration & Data Engineer is a key role for MM Flowers during an exciting time of change, transformation, and enablement of future business critical projects. The role will be a key enabler on the delivery of significant technology focused projects, and the continual development of the digital landscape across the business.

Working closely with the IT Team, vendors and business stakeholders, the Data & Integration Engineer will design and implement an integration solution that will enable better use of data and drive business benefits in alignment with the wider business strategy.

This is a huge opportunity to utilise your previous experience to assist in the successfully delivery of business transformation.


Daily Responsibilities


  • Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of integration architecture based on business requirements, business capabilities, value-streams and enterprise standards.
  • Manages and develops the integration architecture for all projects, working closely with system managers, 3rd parties and analysts to ensure an integrated ecosystem.
  • Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise integration platform.
  • Ensures that business processes that span multiple platforms are integrated and the movement of data is undertaken with accuracy and resilience.
  • Ensure data is available to the right system, at the right time, with the appropriate level of security.
  • Ensure data requirements are captured, and that MM Flowers has a data repository that provides analytics and reporting capabilities to enable the usage of data as an asset.
  • Work with the architecture team to design and deliver a data repository to meet business requirements with structured and controlled data ingestion processes to accurately store data.


What you can already do


  • Minimum 3 years’ experience in Integration Platforms design, implementation, and administration.
  • Minimum 3 years of Integration products experience covering technologies such as MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, or similar industry-leading platforms.
  • Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including Integration architecture, integration development, middleware, database / data lake management or cloud integration development.
  • Delivering technology projects within a fast-paced business, medium sized organisations.
  • Working in a controlled environment with experience, knowledge, and desire to continuously improve.
  • Deliver solutions within the appropriate framework and methodology whilst ensuring the supportability of services delivered.
  • Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments.
  • Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
  • Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.
  • Experience working with ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) Pipelines.
  • Knowledge of Middleware technologies (iPaaS) or Microservice architecture.
  • Ability to design and deliver integrations in the selected Middleware technologies.
  • Experience integrating Web Services (Scribe, SOAP, REST, JSON, XML)
  • Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, C#, PHP and Python.
  • Knowledge of various database technologies like MS SQL Server, T-SQL, SSIS, MySQL, MongoDB, and Snowflake.
  • Knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like integration, networking, data, API, and security.
  • Knowledge of information principles, processes, and Master Data Management (MDM).
  • Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
  • Understanding of IT standards and controls
  • Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture


So, what’s the package? When you work at MM Flowers you get more than just a salary.


  • Holiday allowances are calculated on the days worked and you can find your allowance in your offer letter.
  • Pension Scheme - You will be auto-enrolled onto the company pension scheme after 3 months. At present we operate an auto enrolment scheme where you will benefit from contributions from us.
  • Onsite Parking – free parking is available onsite.
  • Recommend a Friend Scheme – £250 is payable to you when you recommend a friend who is successful through the application process and successfully completes their 3-month probationary period.
  • Career Progression – we actively encourage employees from within the business to consider roles which become available and whether that be within their field or want to consider a cross functional move.
  • Wonderful working environment– we are all working in a modern contemporary purpose-built State of the Art facility.
  • We are committed to an open ethical and fair working environment and have a Whistleblowing Policy in place to ensure complaints and concerns are handled appropriately.
  • We work with an Occupational Health provider to support employees both mentally and physically.
  • We run corporate engagement initiatives throughout the year.
  • We gather employee feedback annually to see how we can improve the employee experience.
  • Grocery Aid


What are you waiting for, we would love to hear from you.

If this position doesn’t match your experience but you love the sound of MM Flowers we welcome speculative applicants, please forward your cv and a covering letter about the type of role or function you are interested in being considered for.

MM Flowers are a proud equal opportunity employer, and we understand the benefits of nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, genetic information. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation to complete the job role advertised are encouraged to apply.

We believe we can only achieve our potential if we employ a diverse population of people, ideas, and perspectives. We are committed to grow our workplace culture, encouraging team members to feel unique valued and engaged, enabling them to achieve their full potential.


All recruitment activities go through our internal Talent Acquisition Team and currently, this role doesn’t require agency input. Please do not forward resumes directly to MM Flowers employees/managers; we do not accept unsolicited resumes and are not responsible for any associated fees.

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