Principal Engineer, Storio group
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2+ days a week in office
eCommerce photo product company
Posted today
eCommerce photo product company
1001+ employees
Posted today
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
Salary benchmarks
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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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
Company values
- Act with heart; People - both customers and employees - are at the heart of all we do. So we embrace diversity and get to know each other as real people and build real relationships based on mutual understanding and respect.
- Give our best; As the crafters and makers of people’s memories, we play an important role in our customers’ lives. That’s why we give our best and work together to build a better business, every day.
- Own all we do; We are all, as individuals and as a team, responsible for creating our success and shaping our future. We lead the charge and drive things forward - fully owning our actions and decisions along the way.
- Embrace curiosity; We believe progress requires curiosity. So, we’re relentlessly curious about the world and each other, actively seeking out diverse perspectives and always asking big questions like ‘why’ and ‘what’s next’?
- Find the joy; At Storio, joy matters. We see it as a state of mind, so while we don’t pretend every day will be easy, we do set out every day to intentionally find, create and share big and little moments of joy with our customers and teammates.
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Alessandro Coppo
(CEO)Previously Senior Vice President of eBay classifieds, Principal at the Boston Consulting Group.
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