Senior Data Engineer - Modern Data Platforms

Company Description
Are you an experienced data engineer looking for your next challenge building the next generation self-service data platform on cutting edge technology and global data? Then this is an opportunity for you to join us as a Senior Data Engineer for our Modern Data Platform team in our Analytics and Data Platform Product Area.
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 on a journey to bring data and analytics to the forefront of innovation. Our vision is to lead the H&M Group to become the most insight-driven organization on Earth. We will do so by providing relevant, high-quality, and self-service analytical products and platform, we do so by simplifying and improving our customers everyday decision taking through a world class customer experience. We do this with an agile mindset and methodology closely with our friends in the whole H&M Group where we always keep the customer in focus. In Analytics and Data Platform Product Area our motto is to engage, learn, share, inspire and have fun.
In this role you will play a vital role for us in our mission to make the H&M group a truly data and insight driven company democratize data providing a modern self-service data platform.
This role focuses on shaping our next generation data platform to build and manage data assets @scale across the whole organization targeted towards Analytics/BI and AI. You will build the data platform as a service on the latest cloud technologies to simplify complexed batch and stream data processing pipelines. You do this in close collaboration with other product teams.


What you will do
Develop and design the next generation data platform with focus on self-service capabilities and data mesh concept
Build, test & maintain source/sink connectors, processors, transformation, and metadata storage building blocks
Develop schema management and update strategies
Add value by leveraging and setting new trends in data engineering through design, architecture, and implementation of highly used data services
Work with cross-functional initiative and collaborate with product teams across the whole H&M group





Qualifications


Who you are:
We are looking for someone that is smart, humble and hungry in helping us build our next modern data platform, you will play a key role in our data transformation journey. In order to succeed, we believe that you have previous experience in building, testing and maintaining data pipelines as well working with Big Data technologies. You feel accountable for the work done and you take pride in question and changing the status quo. You dare to speak up when necessary and seek input and feedback to improve further. We believe that you have:
5+ years’ experience of software development and testing in the field of Data & Analytics
Experience in Big Data technologies (Presto, Hive, Spark)
Experience in Big Data file formats (e.g., Avro, Parquet)
Expert in data base programming languages (SQL, PL/SQL, other for relational databases)
Expert in object-oriented programming languages such (Java, Scala, Python)
Experienced in agile methodologies
Fluent in English both written and verbal
You want to make an impact and take on big complex issues
Experience from successful delivery of high-quality outcomes
Passion for people and interest for technology




Additional Information
What we can offer
This is for fulltime positions with placement in Stockholm.
Please apply with CV and cover letter as soon as possible but at the latest 23d of June, as a part of the process you may be asked to complete a test connected to engineering. Interviews will be held continuously. And We love code! So If you have contributed to Github project(s), also send those to us together with the CV. We are more than happy to take a look!