Lead Data Engineer

Company Description

We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.

We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Job Description

We are on the look-out for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to join the Finance Technology Team. This is a hands-on Engineering role responsible for the technical strategy for the Finance Technology reporting solution, and management of a small team of BI Engineers.

If you are passionate about tech and data engineering, love hands-on development and want to build you will be delivering best in class Business Intelligence (BI) solutions based on the Microsoft Data Platform - you should work with us.

Responsibilities:

• Working collaboratively you will help identify data engineering best practices and promote their adoption; answering technical and procedural questions from less experienced team members; teaching improved processes; mentoring team members.
• Work closely with the solution architects to ensure that designs are practical, workable, and deliverable.
• Championing efficiency and pragmatism throughout the development lifecycle.
• Researching and experimenting with emerging data technologies and industry trends with a view to bringing business value through early adoption.
• Encouraging and driving the use of CI/CD so that solutions are deployable through a transparent and repeatable automated build and release pipelines.
• Ensure that solutions are built to the highest standard, built in a way that favours a simple and maintainable approach over a clever and complex one, tested at every step on the path to production using the appropriate tools and practices, deployable using automated tooling only, and suitably instrumented to meet core operational and business monitoring needs.

Qualifications

Essential

• Expert in implementing modern BI, ETL and Data Warehousing solutions (Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Data Bricks)
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server toolset and BI tools such as Power BI.
• Experience working with Finance or Accounting reporting – understanding of accounting concepts
• Experience in data-warehousing, dimensional modelling, and dimensional data mart design.
• Experience in design, development, and implementation of Dashboards & Business Intelligence applications.
• Excellent T-SQL skills including SQL query performance optimisation.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communications skills.
• Experience in alerting and monitoring requirements for the platform.
• A thought-leader – can help raise the bar at ASOS on how we approach financial reporting technology

Desirable

• Experience with Dynamics 365 for Finance, Dynamics AX or other similar ERP solutions is highly desirable
• Further programming experience in VBA, C#, X++, PowerShell or any Azure technologies

Additional Information

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
• Performance related bonus
• Flex benefits allowance - which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• Tech Develops - our internal tech focussed skills development programme to focus on your personal growth as a technologist
• Opportunity to represent ASOS at industry leading events
• Opportunity to help shape and drive our DE&I initiatives in Tech (like our WIT movement and Diversity mentoring in Tech)
• Opportunity to make an impact from day one and work with the latest in cutting edge of technology

We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how’re we doing it?

Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work.  We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.  

We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th  in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.

There are safe space employee networks and we host a monthly DEI events series to help support and celebrate all of our people. We are constantly listening to our people, evolving, changing and taking a flexible approach to how we make ASOS truly inclusive.