Principal Data Engineer, Storio group
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2+ days a week in office
eCommerce photo product company
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eCommerce photo product company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make joy unforgettable by bringing our customers’ stories to life through a range of high-quality personalized photo products, like photo books, wall decor, calendars & gifts.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a software engineering technical leader at heart
- You thrive in the data engineering and analytics engineering domain
- You care deeply about customer outcome-focused data engineering excellence
- Extensive experience in data engineering, including designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable data platforms that enable key business initiatives
- Proven ability to lead technical design and architecture discussions, influencing technical strategy and decisions across the organization
- Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence within the team
- Deep understanding of data engineering principles and best practices, including data modeling, observable ETL/ELT processes, data warehousing, and data governance
- Proficiency in data manipulation languages (e.g., SQL/DBT) and programming languages relevant to data engineering (e.g., Python)
- Experience with a variety of data processing frameworks and technologies, including cloud-based data services
- Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, including version control (e.g., Git), testing, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- A focus on building high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented code
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment, collaborating with product managers, analysts, and other stakeholders
- -Proven effective influencer, capable of driving change outside of your direct team, contributing to the wider engineering community
- A degree in a STEM field (e.g., Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent practical experience
Desirable
- Understanding of various data architecture paradigms (e.g., Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Mesh) and their applicability to different business needs
- Experience with data governance principles and practices, ensuring data quality, accuracy, and compliance
- Familiarity with data security best practices and technologies
- Experience in the e-commerce domain
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Principal Data Engineer to join our London-based data team and help us (re-)build a platform that accelerates a decentralised-by-design data adoption model within the business
- We care about providing trustable, usable data that meets business needs
- We want you to own and drive technical excellence within your team to make this organisation-level change happen
- Collaborate effectively within a cross-functional, mission-led team, led by a product manager and engineering manager, contributing to the team’s strategy, roadmap, and OKRs
- Define and champion technical principles and practices to raise the bar on implementing a well-engineered, well-governed data platform that meets the needs of our customers
- Be accountable for the technical health of your team’s codebase, driving continuous improvement and establishing metrics to track progress
- Lead technical solution design on multiple complex initiatives within your team, demonstrated by successful and timely implementation, driving resolutions for complex and difficult problems
- Drive continuous improvement on key metrics such as business value, cost efficiency, speed, and quality of delivery
- Coach a team of data and analytics engineers on best practices in the software development lifecycle, delivering high-quality software through your own work, and fostering a feedback culture within the team
- Influence key decision-making across the data and ML engineering domain on technical approaches to balance delivering near-term commercial impact and building long-term foundations
- Our Tech Stack:
- Cloud Data Warehouse - Snowflake
- AWS Data Solutions - Kinesis, SNS, SQS, S3, ECS, Lambda
- Data Governance & Quality - Collate & Monte Carlo
- Infrastructure as Code - Terraform
- Data Integration & Transformation - Python, DBT, Fivetran, Airflow
- CI/CD - Github Actions / Jenkins
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Company benefits
- 8 weeks out of the year to work working remotely abroad
- Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the team
- Annual Performance bonus (Discretionary)
- 25 days of holiday a year (excluding public holidays) increasing by 1 day each year up to 30 days after 5 years continuous service
- Healthcare, dental and life assurance
- Pension scheme with employer/employee contributions
- Cycle to work scheme
Our take
Storio group is a personalised photo company that creates photo books, wall decor, calendars, and gifts that are tailored to the individual.
The result of a merger that combined eight brands across fourteen European markets, Storio group is vertically integrated and, unlike many competitors, manufactures the vast majority of the products it sells. The pan-European company serves over 7 million customers and is rapidly expanding, with its own state-of-the-art printing facilities across the European continent.
The company rebrand in 2024 was part of a two-year post-merger strategy that focused on integration, innovation, and growth across the Storio group. With 11 million customers across the globe across its brands, Storio group’s new identity follows a leadership change and signifies a significant brand consolidation.
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