Chief Data Architect

3 weeks ago

Cheadle, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Pets at Home Full time
Transformative Data Engineer Opportunity

We are a pioneering pet care company seeking a visionary Chief Data Engineer to spearhead our data capabilities and drive innovation. As a key member of our Engineering function, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data platforms and driving business outcomes.

The Opportunity:

As a Chief Data Engineer, you will be responsible for:

  • Overseeing the technical implementation of strategic projects, from design to deployment, and ensuring seamless integration with our existing infrastructure.
  • Making informed technical decisions to optimize our data platforms, handle data streams, and model/warehouse data to meet business needs.
  • Spearheading new deployments and features within our Data Platforms to enhance Engineering Excellence and time to first insight for our internal customers.
  • Providing technical mentorship and guidance to colleagues, promoting best practices, and nurturing the team's collective knowledge and capability.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Ensure solutions developed by colleagues are fit for purpose and aligned with our strategic technical direction.
  • Provide guidance, support, and assistance to the Data Platforms team and wider Engineering function.
  • Actively participate in designing and developing simple data platform solutions that meet complex business requirements.
  • Understand, identify, and implement improvements to existing practices and processes in use across our platforms.
  • Define and evolve our agile development lifecycle and tooling.
Essential Experience, Knowledge & Expertise:
  • Proven experience leading and mentoring a technical team or significant experience as a senior team member.
  • Customer-oriented approach with a focus on outcomes.
  • Proven experience engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders of varying seniority.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-grade production data platform tooling or data modeling approaches.
  • A strong understanding of Agile practices.
Desirable Experience, Knowledge & Expertise:
  • Experience building and/or deploying Customer Data Platforms, data streaming architectures for real-time analytics, cloud data lake/warehousing, or semantic modeling.
  • Prior experience leveraging retail customer data for personalization.
  • Working knowledge of deploying and/or using MLOps tooling/frameworks (open source or cloud-native) or data visualization tools (Tableau, Qlik, Looker, PowerBI, etc.).
  • Expertise in encouraging better practice through CI/CD pipelines, KEDBs, SOPs, code review (conventional commits/comments, etc.).
Role-Specific Competencies:
  • Technical Leadership: You are passionate about building better tools, processes, and systems, and you thrive on collaborative team success.
  • Comfort with Ambiguity: You embrace changing requirements as opportunities for growth and innovation. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic and innovative team at the forefront of transforming pet care. If you're passionate about leveraging data to drive business success and enjoy leading technical initiatives in a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.

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