Principal Data Engineer - Retail

Principal Data Engineer - Retail
The Very Group, United Kingdom

Experience
1 Year
Salary
0 - 0
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
May 1, 2021
Last Date
Jun 1, 2021
Location(s)

Job Description

About us.

We’re The Very Group, home to Very.co.uk, Littlewoods.com and a team of 4,000 super-talented people.

We’re the UK’s largest integrated digital retailer and financial services provider, and we’ve been helping customers say yes when it matters most for over 100 years. In that time, we’ve consistently reinvented our business to adapt to economic conditions and industry changes going from bricks, to clicks, to mobile.

But despite our passion for reinvention, we’ve never wavered from our purpose; to make good things easily accessible to more people. It means giving our customers the brands they love, an outstanding shopping experience and flexible ways to spread the cost.

We’ve continued to deliver for our customers throughout the Covid-19 outbreak and we’ve done it by transforming the way we work.

We’re fired up for the future and the next stage in our development. We’ll give customers access to more great brands for themselves and their families, a seamless shopping experience and even more control of their finances through innovation in flexible ways to pay.

Data in Retail

The Very Group has a Tribe and Squad Technology Delivery Model. This means that each primary area of the business is fully aligned to its primary function e.g. Financial Services, Customer Care, Logistics amp; Fulfilment, Digital Customer Experience (DCX) (front-end web and app development), Data and Retail. We do not operate as a traditional, centralised IT/technology team, though we do have some central technology functions such as operations, platform, security, risk, networking etc. Generally, each tribe is responsible for its own technology solutions and delivery of those solutions (bought or built) and interaction/integration with other tribes/3rd parties. Each tribe consists of the business operations colleagues and technology roles needed to support that tribe. This QA Engineering role is aligned with the Retail Tribe.

The Retail Tribe own the master and dynamic data attributes associated with products sold to customers by The Very Group via our websites or app. Among many other processes such as sourcing, merchandising, buying, marketing, Retail also owns the forecasting, planning, pricing and replenishment processes which rely heavily on having accurate data available for high-quality forecasting, pricing and inventory holding. We are striving to improve our data quality through people, processes and technology. At the moment these processes are held in several legacy systems that we are looking to decommission and modernise our estate and make use of the wealth of data that is available to us. We are also looking at initiatives to improve our data quality before products go on-sale on our websites and app. We are currently undergoing a cloud migration to AWS.

For information, we also have a separate Data Tribe who work across the business and various tribes and are responsible for areas such as data science, AI/ML, corporate analytics, data strategy and core data engineering. They have embarked on an ambitious journey, to modernise our Data domain working with cutting-edge technology working within the Data Science, Analytics, Strategy and Engineering teams.

About the role:

The Principal Data Engineer is a senior role in the Retail Tribe. They will play a significant role in defining our data strategy and infrastructure and our migration path to a better set of data management systems and data quality.

The Principal Data Engineer will work within squads and would play a leading role in developing our data strategy and infrastructure in areas such as our product setup methodology, analytics, pricing, replenishment and forecasting solutions. The Principal Data Engineer will also be able to automate processes, removing the need to manually maintain solutions. They will also be involved in decommissioning some tightly coupled, critical legacy data systems as we move to modernise the estate. They will also play a significant role in ensuring that our data infrastructure is built and maintained to a high standard and provides and satisfies the requirements of our demanding, fast-paced business, its customers and shareholders.

You will be comfortable taking part in and leading Agile ceremonies and communicating with senior stakeholders.

The Principal Data Engineer is comfortable collaborating effectively and works well in cross-functional, Agile squads and plays a hands-on role in coding, coaching, guiding and mentoring others in the squad. The role is a trusted role in the tribe and our primary interface to the Data Tribe.


Day to day:

  • Significantly contribute to the data strategy for the Retail Tribe.
  • Oversee and engineer across multiple squads ensuring deliveries remain on time and in budget.
  • Own the delivery assigned via a backlog to successful

Job Specification

Job Rewards and Benefits

The Very Group

Information Technology and Services - Liverpool, United Kingdom
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