Engineering Manager to Analytics and Data Platforms

Company Description


Are you a tech-savvy leader passionate about coaching and helping engineers to unleash their potential, while also applying your own tech skills? We are now looking for an experienced engineer manager to join us in our new Business Tech organization. Check out this video to meet a few of our colleagues in Business Tech.
We are on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
The best ideas evolve when great minds with different perspectives get together. We’re all on the same team in a global environment and we learn from each other. There are endless opportunities to grow – your development is all up to you!
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users. H&M Group – Business Tech.




Job Description


We are looking for an engineer manager who wants to work in a modern organization, where agility, automation and cloud are non-negotiables. Our product area is called Analytics and Data Platforms, and our teams are responsible for all data processing, reporting and advanced analytics capabilities across the value chain. This means tons of data and unlimited learning opportunities.
The role has a dual focus – staff responsibility and delivery. In Business Tech the engineering manager responsibility is called competence lead, which means you play a key role in unleashing the potential of your colleagues working in the same competence domain as your own. Your staff responsibility goes across different Product Teams and tasks include coaching, development conversations, salary review among others.
Upon joining the product area and according to your interests, experience, and competences, you will have a home in one of our 19 product teams. You and your team leverage modern software engineering principles and cloud services to build robust data solutions for our entire value-chain, in production, logistics, sales, marketing and others. We hope you appreciate working in autonomous teams, have a hands-on attitude and believe that no challenge is too big if we have the right support and tools in place.
We appreciate a multitude of technical backgrounds, but we believe you will enjoy working here if you’re passionate about data and have worked hands-on with analytics in the past, either in modern data warehouses or with modern open-source data processing frameworks such as Spark. We appreciate your solid foundations in database principles and/or software engineering, as these go together when building robust, cloud-based solutions.
As a competence lead at H&M Group you will embark on a journey that will lead to something new and exciting - we will test, fail and learn. For this assignment, we are looking for someone who has demonstrated experience in leadership roles in tech environments.
You are an important player in this transformation, and so we believe you are communicative, flexible and able to work in an environment that is not yet formalized. You have previous experience from working in large companies with many stakeholders, you have worked with distributed teams, and you know how to translate business requirements and visualize technical roadmaps. You will also:
Collaborate with other engineers and specialists in building data-driven solutions that have laser-focus on business problems and our customers
Build products in a varied of technologies and with varied focus (reporting, self-service analytics, large-scale data processing)
Use your expertise and creativity to solve problems using modern technologies and software engineering, in the areas of data quality, testing, deployment and monitoring





Qualifications


Previous experience from leadership and staff responsibility
You are a team player, solution-driven and open-minded, with a passion for continuous improvement
Solid track record in data engineering or in business intelligence/ advanced analytics environments, including building data platforms on Hadoop and Spark
Experience with version control workflows with Git and an advocate of Continuous Integration
Experience with designing and architecting cloud-based data solutions (Azure, AWS or GCP)
Solid software architecture skills, keen to leverage patterns to write code which is resilient, scalable, and maintainable
You have experience working in agile teams, and using supporting tools such as JIRA
Excellent communication skills in English, Swedish is a plus
Tools and software used by the teams: Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Lake, Airflow, Power BI, Tableau and many others.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users.




Additional Information


Do you think we are a match? We hope so!
Do you have leadership experience?
Do you have staff responsible experience?
Do you have engineering background?

If you anwser YES on these questions, please apply with CV and cover letter the latest 5th of March 2021. In you cover letter please highlight your leadership experience.
This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm.
We are looking forward to your application!