Principal Data Engineer
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Job Summary
Overview
Principal Data Engineer
Were Kingfisher a team made up of over 74000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama B&Q Screwfix Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. Thats right were big but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And thats where you come in.
At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues future colleagues and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age gender marital or civil partnership status colour ethnic or national origin culture religious belief philosophical belief political opinion disability gender identity gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
At Kingfisher we value the perspectives that any new team members bring and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return we offer an inclusive environment where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas actively support experimentation and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.
We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
- Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
- Life insurance financed by the employer
- 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
- Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
- Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
- Wellbeing programme for employees
- Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
- Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
- Language courses accounting courses access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
- Employee referral programme
Whats the job
About the role
As a Principal Data Engineer you will be a senior individual contributor and technical leader shaping the design direction and evolution of Kingfishers data platforms and products.
Operating at aleading capability level you will be recognised as a trusted technical expert and advisor across Group Technology influencing engineering strategy technical standards and ways of working across multiple squads and domains.
You will lead the delivery of enterprise-scale data solutions enable high-performing engineering teams and drive the evolution of our data platforms to ensure they deliver measurable business value. Through your technical leadership you will helpestablishengineering best practices support innovation and contribute to the long-term success of our data engineering capability.
Responsibilities
Define and drive the data platform and data engineering strategy aligned with Group Technologyobjectives.
Lead architecture decisions andestablishengineering standards best practices and scalable design patterns across data pipelines storage and processing.
Partner with Architecture and Product teams to shape long-term platform roadmaps and capabilities.
Design and deliver robust production-ready data platforms and pipelines that are scalable resilient high-performing and cost-efficient.
Champion modern data engineering practices including CI/CD automated testing observability DevOps and platform automation.
Drive data quality governance and security standards while promoting reusable data products and shared platform capabilities.
Provide technical leadership across multiple squads influencing engineering decisions and collaborating with senior stakeholders across Engineering Product Architecture and Technology.
Lead complex business-critical initiatives spanning multiple teams systems and geographies.
Mentor and coach engineers across the Data Engineering Chapter fostering knowledge sharing continuous learning and engineering excellence.
Support hiring onboarding and capability development while helping build a strong engineering community.
Stay ahead ofemergingtechnologies evaluating and introducing new tools and approaches that deliver measurable value.
Drive continuous improvement across the data engineering landscape ensuring technical solutions support customer and commercial outcomes while balancing quality speed cost and risk.
What youll bring
Proven ability to influence executive-level stakeholders and collaborate effectively across multiple domains.
Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with experience addressing complex ambiguous and cross-system challenges.
Ability to lead through uncertainty transformation and changing priorities.
A track recordof setting engineering standards driving continuous improvement and raising capability across teams.
Experience coaching engineers and contributing to the development of high-performing teams and engineering communities.
Strongexpertisein distributed data processing systems and architectures.
Deep knowledge of data modelling storage access and processing patterns.
Proven experience delivering large-scale data platforms and production-grade data pipelines.
Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
Hands-on experience with SparkPySpark or Scala.
Experience using DBT for data modelling and transformation.
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms including GCP Azure and AWS.
Experience with data platforms and services such as DatabricksBigQuery and Azure Data Factory.
Strong understanding of DevOps andDataOpspractices including CI/CD Git Terraform Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with data quality tools and testing frameworks including Great Expectations.
Deep understanding of batch streaming and event-driven data architecture patterns.
Strong knowledge of cloud-native and distributed systems design.
Experience designing resilient scalable and observable systems.
Proven ability to optimise data platforms for performance and cost efficiency.
Ability to act as a trusted technical authority influence strategic direction and investment decisions and deliver measurable business value through data platforms.
Excellent command of English (written and spoken).
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About Company
Kingfisher plc is an international home improvement company with over 1,360 stores in nine countries across Europe. We operate under retail banners including B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt, Screwfix, Tradepoint and Koçtaş, supported by a team of 77,000 colleagues
