Asos Careers – Principal Big Data Engineer

Job Description:

ASOS Technology is going through an exciting period of transition and major investment. – this includes a number of strategic programmes to deliver the amazing technology and business solutions to support our ambitious global growth plans. At the heart of these plans is the rebuilding of our digital platforms and channels to provide the best shopping experience for our customers. Our plan is designed to enable us to really put our mobile experience first, enable personalisation and support a data driven organisation. We are also making significant investments in all our Buying, Merchandising, Finance and People systems with the latest toolsets and applications to accelerate the next phase of our global growth. We are also improving our ways of working within Technology to enable autonomous platform development and improve our engineering and agile practices.

Job Responsibilities:

• As Principal Big Data Engineer your goal is to make engineering – and our engineers – better, every day.
• You support multiple Big Data Engineering teams at ASOS and are responsible the Big Data Engineering capabilities across ASOS. You are approachable, collaborative and you actively nurture a diverse and inclusive culture and team environment.
• This year we are setting up a new tech hub in Belfast, where you will help to bring three new teams on board.
• Whilst reporting into the Head of Engineering, you will be aligned primarily to the AI team and to other teams as the need arises.
• Working closely with data and machine learning scientists, product managers, architects, big data and machine learning engineers, and senior leadership, you will work with the teams to deliver and support state-of-the-art, Azure-based data infrastructure and ETL pipelines supporting ML & Data Science initiatives.
• You contribute to the overall data strategy and drive strategic big data initiatives.
• You bring engineering leadership as we evolve our big data platform and we transition to a data mesh architecture and help manage the operations and tech debt of the platform and data product teams.

Job Requirements:

• You are a seasoned Big Data Engineer with a depth of practical knowledge in guiding Big Data engineering teams through the full delivery lifecycle.
• You are passionate about mentoring and developing others and have a breadth of exposure to data engineering and architecture.
• Experience of transitioning an organisation to a data mesh operating model would be valuable.
• You have many years of professional experience in distributed data processing using industry standard big data frameworks, storage, data orchestration and data streaming technologies within a cloud environment.
• We use Microsoft Azure but transferable knowledge of other cloud providers is fine. You have expert level programming skills in at least one of python or scala.

Job Details:

Company: Asos

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

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