Senior Data Engineer

Mars Petcare UK
London
2 weeks ago
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Job Description:

Are you passionate about Data and Analytics (D&A) and excited about how it can completely transform the way an enterprise works Do you have the strategic vision technical expertise and leadership skills to drive datadriven solutions Do you want to work in a dynamic fastgrowing category If so you might be the ideal candidate for the role in the Data and Analytics function for Global Pet Nutrition (PN) at Mars.

Pet Nutrition (PN) is the most vibrant category in the FMCG sector. As we work to transform this exciting category a new program Digital First has been mobilized by the Mars Pet Nutrition (PN) leadership team. Digital First places pet parents at the center of all we do in Mars PN while digitalizing a wide range of business process areas and creating future fit capabilities to achieve ambitious targets in top line growth earnings and pet parent centricity. The Digital First agenda requires Digitizing at scale and requires you to demonstrate significant thought leadership quality decision making deep technical knowhow and an ability to navigate complex business challenges while building and leading a team of world class data and analytics leaders.

With Digital First PN is moving to a Product based model to create business facing digital capabilities. Develop and maintain robust data pipelines and storage solutions to support data analytics and machine learning initiatives. Reporting to the DirectorData engineering solution The role operates globally in collaboration with teams engineering teams across growth products.

Technical LeadershipProvide strong technical leadership to data engineers and DevOps engineers across growth product teams. Act as a thought partner in the design implementation and evolution of scalable data platforms and assets. Champion best practices in data engineering and foster a collaborative innovative and highperformance culture across teams.

Engineering Standards and Frameworks:Define maintain and evolve data engineering standards patterns and frameworks that product teams can adopt. Ensure consistency quality and reusability across solutions. Serve as a point of accountability for technical decisions and architectural direction while empowering product teams to execute effectively.

DataOps Enablement and Optimization:Drive the adoption of modern DataOps principles to streamline engineering workflows. Partner with platform teams to establish CI/CD pipelines observability standards that improve operational efficiency reliability and speed across data pipelines.

Data Governance and Quality Assurance:Embed governance security and data quality practices into engineering workflows. Define guardrails and reference implementations for data access control data lineage and compliance. Promote consistent metadata management and enforce technical standards to ensure trust in data assets.

Stakeholder Engagement:Collaborate with PN D&A leadership PN product owners and segment D&A leadership to synchronize and formulate data priorities aimed at maximizing value through data utilization.

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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.


Required Experience:

Senior IC


Key Skills
Apache Hive,S3,Hadoop,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Apache Pig,NoSQL,Big Data,Data Warehouse,Kafka,Scala
Employment Type :Full-Time
Experience:years
Vacancy:1

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