Senior Software Engineer - Analytics & Data Platforms

Company Description


At H&M, we are on an exciting journey where fashion and tech make magic together. As rapid technological development and new customer behaviors are transforming the fashion retail industry, our mission is to meet and exceed our customers' expectations. All while keeping in mind sustainable practices. We know that the best ideas evolve when great minds with different backgrounds and perspectives get together.
At H&M, we are all on the same team in a global environment where we learn from each other and grow together. We live our values and know that sharing knowledge is the best way to continuously improve our ways of working and creating.
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.
For our product area Analytics, and Data platform, we are looking for senior software engineers who thrive in a workplace where agility, automation, and cloud are non-negotiable. Is that you?


Job Description


The teams within the Product Area Analytics & Data Platforms are responsible for all data processing, reporting, and advanced analytics capabilities across the whole value chain. As a team, we are on a journey to bring data and analytics to the forefront of innovation.
Our to-be self-service data platform will be based on a Data Mesh architecture and GCP. The core team building it needs to consider massive scalability aspects in terms of data and compute scale, user count and variation in user needs, security, and the large number of autonomous data centric product teams in need of the capabilities on the platform.
This role requires you to be a natural leader in exploring new architecture with hands on the keyboard. We believe that you are good at coaching others – like leading programming sessions, presenting and aligning solutions to complex problems. You also have a wide perspective on engineering practices to build scalable and robust platforms.


You are very familiar with modern engineering practices have a DevOps mindset and are familiar with automating software delivery. When it comes to the platform itself, we see that you are very familiar with multiple cloud platforms, monitoring, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code and have knowledge about secure coding practices.


Qualifications


What you will do:
• Build our new data platform based on GCP, CI/CD and IaC automation
• Expand and refine platform module catalog and make them available to other product teams.
• Work with modern DevOps practices.
• Develop data mesh tech practices and tooling for the entire H&M group
• Support, challenge and solve architectural problems with hands on keyboard
• Coach Product Teams in how to migrate towards the new platform
• Ensure technical aspects of the platform is kept by security standards, scalability, observability, self-service, and performance
Qualifications:
• Experience in data query languages (SQL or similar).
• Experience with data centric programming in Python
• Advanced knowledge in infrastructure as code (Terraform is a plus) and cloud-based platforms.
• +3 years experience
• Have competence within different agile frameworks and supporting tools.
• Great collaboration and communication skills in English, Swedish is a plus.
• Have strong problem-solving skills – able to find solutions in complex situations and helping it come alive by coding.
A plus if you also have:
• Experience and understanding of modern Data Platforms and Analytics.
• Experience in programming languages such (Java, Scala, Python).
• Experience in GCP - Dataflow, Dataproc and BigQuery.
• Experience in data processing frameworks - Beam, Spark, Hive, Flink.


Additional Information


This is for full-time positions with placement in Stockholm.
Please apply with a CV as soon as possible, 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!