Senior Data Engineer

Marks & Spencer Plc
London
2 months ago
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Summary

We are seeking a passionate Senior 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 sophisticated and robust solutions to solve complicated problems for our customers and colleagues.

You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class data engineering team, environment, and culture. 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

  • Build and maintain high-quality, reliable data solutions and own it with a high degree of automation in the cloud.
  • Own complex tasks in the backlog and deliver them routinely with no significant issues.
  • Support other data/ML engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming.
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable data/ML pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals.
  • Drive solution through experimentation and innovation.
  • Support the build of analytical tools that use the data pipeline to deliver actionable insights, enabling data driven decision making, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.

Who you are

  • Extensive proven experience in cloud-based data technologies and data warehousing design principles, preferably Azure.
  • Sophisticated understanding of design/building end-to-end data/ML solutions.
  • Solid experience with ETL tools, Databricks, SQL.
  • Demonstrable experience in building end-to-end ML systems and ML Lifecyle (Feature engineering, monitoring, testing, deployment).
  • Solid experience in ML and AI concepts.
  • Solid 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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