Lead Data Engineer

About us Bloom & Wild is re-inventing the $60B global flower industry. Over a billion flower exchanges take place every year and industry satisfaction levels are low. Driven by our core belief that you can never care too much or be too thoughtful, we do things a little differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. And we’ve seen impressive traction to date - we are Europe’s most loved flower and gifting platform, growing at 100% year on year.
The past two years have continued to be really exciting for us! In January 2021 we announced our £75 million Series D funding round, led by General Catalyst (backers of Airbnb and Deliveroo), with participation from multiple other top tier investors including Index Ventures (who have also backed companies such as Transferwise and Glossier). Bloom & Wild acquired bloomon in April 2021 and Bergamotte in July 2021, cementing our position as Europe’s leading online flower company. Together, we are active in 8 countries. We are home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte.
We have been named one of the 5 fastest growing tech companies in Europe and are alumni of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty. We were also one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Small Companies to Work For 2020.
We really care about creating a diverse and inclusive team - so we welcome people from all backgrounds, with different perspectives, ideas and experiences to work with us. In our team, everyone has the freedom to give their opinion, grow in their career and be part of a genuinely caring and inclusive team.
Data Team at Bloom & WildThe overall Bloom & Wild team is now over 400 people. You will join the Data team within our Technology team.You can read more about our technology and culture over on our tech blog - Code & Wild.The Data Team consists of Data Engineering and Data Science squads. We collaborate closely with the rest of the technology team, product managers, a separate business intelligence team, our CRM and operations teams. You will join the Data Engineering squad as our first Lead Data Engineer. With millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of monthly transactions, we have a large and growing dataset that we use for training machine learning models and powering BI dashboards.  Our data is stored in a data warehouse built on Snowflake and we deploy and execute our pipelines on AWS cloud.

The Data Engineering squad is currently focused on:

• Building and maintaining our data ingestion pipelines, developed in Python using Meltano framework.
• Developing data transformations within our Snowflake data platform, using dbt.
• Working on data integration with bloomon and Bergamotte, the two companies we acquired last year.
• Designing and implementing a data warehouse using dimensional modelling techniques to support machine learning and reporting requirements.

The role and ways of working:

• As a Lead Data Engineer, you will have a critical role in developing and delivering our data platform.
• You will also have an important role in expanding and mentoring our Data Engineering squad, ensuring that we are set up for success as we continue to grow.
• You will use your skills, initiative and ideas to optimise existing as well as design and implement new data flows for ingesting and transforming multiple data sources into our Snowflake data platform.
• You will be delivering data solutions with agreed organisational standards to ensure that our capabilities are resilient, scalable and future-proof.
• You will be responsible for developing and documenting our data architecture.
• You will advise the business on how to collect data to provide datasets for future data science projects.
• You will be responsible for managing the data pipeline that powers the work our BI team is doing, balancing working on the long term roadmap with and implementing changes with immediate impact.
• You will be creating tests for validating data quality and the stability of our data platform, and maintaining alerting systems to ensure smooth operations across all of our datasets.
• The role will suit someone who is looking for a career opportunity in a fast-paced, scale-up environment and is looking to make an immediate impact.
• You will bring energy and positivity to the role, looking for every opportunity to learn and craft the role around our values; care, pride, customer first, innovation and delight.

You:

• At least 5 years of data engineering experience
• Proficiency with SQL
• Python skills
• Management and leadership skills
• Experience with cloud data warehousing solutions
• Strong understanding of ELT processes
• Experience with large datasets
• Data pipelining and automation
• Comfortable with anticipating, preventing, and solving complex data problems
• Understanding of emerging trends in data tools and usage
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate with non-technical people
It would be great if you also have…
• Experience working in e-commerce
• Commercial experience with Snowflake
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure or GCP

Working Environment:

• Currently, the majority of our teams are still working from home. However, in line with government restrictions, we are gradually opening up our beautiful, flower filled office again -  for teams to use as much or as little as they’d like. We continue not to expect people to come in as a norm, though managers may ask teams to come in for specific reasons (unless you are a fully remote worker). Our plan moving forward is to continue to find ways of incorporating remote work into our daily, business as usual, ways of operating.  And we have no expectation that our teams will need to come into the office 5 days per week again.

In addition to our normal perks and benefits we’re supporting each other and maintaining our culture remotely through:

• Twice weekly online yoga class and access to ClassPass workout content
• Birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions celebrated with the team
• Virtual Stand Up for weekly company updates, and Virtual Monthly Meeting to celebrate our successes and value nominations
• Remote lunch and learns
• Wellbeing support through online coaching sessions and employee assistance program, talking about challenges that we are facing in the current environment
• New slack channels and ways of creating community remotely

We apply our five key values of delight, customer first, care, innovation and pride in our day to day activities (find out more here) and reward those who are encompassing them exceptionally. Everyone is friendly and sociable, with regular company-wide events.

Our perks and benefits:

• 25 days holiday, with an additional day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays, totalling 34 days, per annum. There is also the option to buy an extra 5 days holiday
• Flexible working schedule (core hours from 10-4pm)
• We offer flexible bank holidays so at any time you can trade a bank holiday day off and in its place take off another day that fits better with your beliefs, values and celebration calendar.
• Choose your laptop and any extra equipment you need to do your best work
• Health cash plan through Simplyhealth
• Personal Development Budget
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policy
• Workplace nursery - a salary sacrifice based childcare scheme
• Childcare Vouchers
• Pension Contribution
• Discounts on our blooms!
• Lunch & Learns
• Bloom & Go Wild trips (once we’re able to again) - most recently we went to Paris!

Sponsorship:

• We're proud to hold an A-rated sponsor license, so we can assign certificates of sponsorship. This means we can support applications from anywhere as long as the job is deemed suitable under the points based system

When we’re in the office:

• Our lovely, light and spacious office is conveniently located close to Vauxhall and Oval stations in London. We have an informal, inclusive and scale-up culture and those who choose to come into the office, also benefit from:
• Free snacks 
• Early finishes on Thursdays & Fridays to spend more time with each other.
• Beer, wine and soft drinks fridge.
• Season ticket loan (scheme currently frozen due to Covid-19).
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• We’re a social bunch and plan to re-start our regular company wide events as soon as we can! Previous ones have included in person Summer & Christmas parties, post peak celebrations and regular team lunches.

Recruitment Process:

• The interview process will be conducted remotely and will consist of the following:
• Initial call with Safa, our Senior Technology Talent Manager
• A call with Tonci, our Head of Data
• Complete an offline technical task will be shared with you
• Technical interview with the team
• Final stage interview with our CTO, Marta

Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and would love to hear from you directly on how we can improve. If you have any suggestions please feel free to let us know at careers@bloomandwild.com