AWS Lead Data Engineer

4 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom JD Williams Full time

We're seeking a highly skilled AWS Lead Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team at JD Williams. As a key member of our team, you'll be responsible for leading the development and maintenance of our analytics platform, ensuring it's reliable, scalable, and secure.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Lead a team of engineers in creating, maintaining, and extending our analytics platform
  2. Design patterns for ingesting, transforming, and exposing data
  3. Drive adoption of strong CI/CD practices to reduce deployment risks
  4. Coach your team in best practices and coding standards
  5. Develop your team's software development capabilities
  6. Collaborate across technology squads and teams
  7. Work within an agile operating model with cross-functional teams
  8. Manage the Analytics Platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security

Required Skills and Experience:

  1. Strong communication skills, able to convey complex technical concepts to various audiences
  2. Experience delivering large-scale transformation projects with a focus on end-to-end data architecture
  3. Deep interest in how data architectures can improve experiences and drive better business decisions
  4. Experience with Google Cloud Platform stack (BigQuery, Composer, Dataplex, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, GCS, Vertex AI, GKE) or similar cloud platforms
  5. Familiarity with open-source data-stack tools (Airflow, DBT, Kafka, Great Expectation, etc.)
  6. Appreciation of modern cloud data stack, headless BI, analytics engineering, Data Mesh, and Lake House

Preferred Skills:

  1. Knowledge of Teradata, Mainframe, and/or Google Analytics
  2. Experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Looker)
  3. Understanding of Agile principles, practices, and tools (Jira, Confluence)
  4. Understanding of data management, analytics, science, and visualization workflows

About JD Williams:

At JD Williams, we're committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by 'championing inclusion, we'll become the most loved and trusted fashion retailer'. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are, therefore, at the heart of our culture.

We're a forward-thinking digital retailer with a financial services proposition to be proud of. We're customer-obsessed, serving them through three core brands: JD Williams, Simply Be, and Jacamo.

Our Promise:

We're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.



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