Lead Data Architect

3 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom N Brown Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team at N Brown. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and maintenance of our analytics platform.

Key Responsibilities

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

Required Skills and Experience

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

What's in it for you?

  • Hybrid working
  • 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 days
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
  • Access to Apricity, a self-funding IVF benefit at a reduced rate
  • Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
  • Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
  • A range of financial wellbeing support
  • Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
  • Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts
  • Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
  • Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice

About N Brown

N Brown is 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. We're experienced, with over 160 years of trading under our belt. We're inclusive, as we believe in fashion without boundaries; and we're sustainable, striving to make as little impact on the planet as possible.

Ways of Working

We offer hybrid working which varies across the business depending on the role you're in.. Our Head Office is located in the Northern Quarter in Manchester City Centre. So if you are travelling by train, tram or bus we're perfectly located, plus we're surrounded by cool cafes, trendy bars and the best places to eat



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