Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• Up to 29,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

About the Role

We are going through and exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. You will work as part of our exciting greenfield tech hub covering all facets of technology within Kingfisher. You will be responsible for the day-to-day performance and productivity of a small team, leading by example whilst driving quality and ensuring delivery to scope.

If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!

Responsibilities

• Work in agile team, collaborate with other teams, advising, mentoring and line managing other Data Engineers.
• Act as an escalation point for team, unblocking technical or project related issues to maintain project progress.
• Lead in design, architecture and delivery of new features and pipelines within the team
• Support the Principal Data Engineer with resourcing and other day to day management duties.
• Maintain high performing teams by driving continuous improvement of engineering and agile practices and standards.
• Be an active member of the Kingfisher wide technical lead team to help define development processes, and code quality standards, also serve as a technical leader within the organisation.
• Promote TDD to design and develop operationally maintainable solutions in accordance with Kingfisher standards.
• Ensure competence in the specialism is sustained, developed and encouraged within your team by being a data engineer with a passion for leading and coaching.

Skills & Experience

• Strong engineering background and proven experience in developing and maintaining large-scale distributed data processing systems or equivalent expertise.
• Extensive knowledge of data modelling principles, data quality assurance, testing methodologies, and best practices for data access and storage.
• Strong command of data scripting languages within data ecosystem, including Python, SQL, and PySpark.
• Experience with Azure Databricks and DBT for building and optimising data pipelines and workflows.
• Experience in implementing cloud data solutions on at least one major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Knowledge around shortening development lead time and improving data development lifecycle
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and working experience within Agile delivery frameworks
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)