Senior Data Engineer

Please note, this role can be remote based in the UK

Holland & Barrett International is striving to be the world's leading health and wellness business. Currently the largest in Europe and growing in other markets, the health and wellness of our colleagues and customers is at our heart.

Are you an experienced Senior Data Engineer with a strong focus on building high availability cloud native data platforms? Do you thrive in a challenging environment and enjoy working on complex data solutions? We are seeking a talented Senior Data Engineer to join our dynamic team and help us drive innovation in the fields of Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Science and Business Intelligence.

All our data services and platforms are hosted in AWS with a key focus on moving towards server-less technologies. We deploy our own platforms and services, extensively using IaC technologies. We work in collaboration with Data Science, Data warehouse and Product teams to build, deploy and support highly scalable, cost effective and reliable data platforms and services.

Key areas of engagement

• You will be responsible for building, scaling and managing highly available, scalable Data integration solutions and Data services.
• You will be part of the broader H&B Data & Analytics organisation, working alongside the Data Warehousing, BI, Data Science and Product Analytics teams.
• You will be a key part of the team which owns the Data Lake and will be responsible for governing, managing and integrating various consumers and publishers to the data lake.
• You will be building Cloud native systems hosted in AWS.
• You will be working closely with Data Science team building Data Science platforms and applications.

The data platform is a key pillar in our transformation journey to become the leading health and wellness retailer. We love cloud native, we prefer building the right solutions over buying generic ones and we embrace automation, monitoring and testing in all things software, infrastructure and data.

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in using Docker, virtualisation and containerisation frame works
• Strong experience with IaC technologies : Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, AWS SAM
• Strong experience in AWS Cloud Computing : AWS, S3, Athena, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, EMR, EKS, AWS Batch, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift
• Experience in deploying, scaling, and overseeing production services on AWS infrastructure.
• Hands on experience with CI/CD deployments, GitLab CI
• Strong Scala and/or Python professional development experience
• Experience in working with serverless and events
• Experience in building data services
• Experience in building monitoring and alerting platforms using Datadog or Cloudwatch
• Professional experience in a comparable role

Role & responsibilities

• Consistently demonstrates the ability to design AND deliver functional and quality software.
• Takes a nuanced view of standards and best practices within the team and consistently look for opportunities to improve the overall capability ecosystem.
• You scrutinise code for scalability, performance issues, adhering to software design principles, open to alternative approaches and respect others autonomy.
• Self driven - Able to drive projects to successful outcome collaborating with all stakeholders.
• Can operate at pace independently without constant oversight.
• Arrange and lead meetings to progress decisions.
• You can describe complex technical areas and practices to both technical and non-technical audiences in ways they can understand.
• You actively engage with the key stakeholders influencing your squad and those who are responsible for cross cutting concerns, e.g. infrastructure, PaaS, security, reliability, etc.
• You are active in learning new techniques and approaches which could support the projects you are working on.
• Able to elicit functional and non-functional requirements making sure they are compatible with the Tech and Data strategy.
• Develops into SME for a functional area and multiple small/medium scale capabilities. Takes operational responsibility.
• Writes test plans to ensure robustness of cloud native, high throughput and scalable applications.
• Sets measurable goals, keeps stakeholders informed of progress and consistently meets these goals.
• Can build and review engineering/architecture designs focussing on availability, scalability, visibility and cost effectiveness.
• Identifies software security issues in their own solutions, risks of handling sensitive data and provides relevant solution.
• Mentor new hires and junior members of the team.

Our benefits

• We operate virtually. Remote, hybrid or in our tech hubs - we work in an agile environment where you can thrive.
• We offer a 10% incentive scheme, based on company performance - when we win, so do you
• Learn from the best - at H&B you'll have the opportunity to enhance and expand your skills and shape your career
• We want you to produce your best, so we provide you with the best tech equipment
• Stay healthy with a 25% discount on all product ranges to help you live well
• We like to recognise and celebrate our people with our Colleague Recognition Scheme, so your hard work won't go unnoticed

About H&B

Holland & Barrett is one of the nation's most loved and trusted brands, known for offering quality health food, vitamins and supplements all sold by highly trained and qualified advisors.

Our culture respects equality, values diversity and encourages individuality - because this allows our people to unlock their potential and be their best. We welcome everyone who shares our EPIC values regardless of background, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation.

We are a growing and pioneering business. Our diverse and EPIC teams enable us to push boundaries and accomplish the extraordinary. As we continue to transform, we need more of the brightest and best minds to join us to turn our vision into a reality.