Principal Big Data Engineer

*Open to applications from Candidates within a commutable distance from London, Belfast or Birmingham areas (with Hybrid working).

ASOS is the UK’s number one fashion and beauty destination, expanding globally at a rapid pace. Our values are to be authentic, brave and creative, and we live and breathe these in everything we do. Our award-winning Tech teams sit at the heart of our business. We deliver technical innovations and pioneer incredible solutions to keep our 20-something market engaged, the cloud based architecture to support our global reach and the agile engineering methods to deliver value fast. 

We’re extremely ambitious and thrive on the individuality of our amazing employees. Our values encompass everything needed for our tech people to be the thought leaders of tomorrow.

We are building the next generation Big Data infrastructure which will ingest and serve massive amounts of data for complex real-time processing, leveraging the latest and most cutting-edge technologies at web-scale

About the role

As Principal Big Data Engineer your goal is to make engineering - and our engineers - better, every day. You support multiple Big Data Engineering teams at ASOS and are responsible the Big Data Engineering capabilities across ASOS.  You are approachable, collaborative and you actively nurture a diverse and inclusive culture and team environment. This year we are setting up a new tech hub in Belfast, where you will help to bring three new teams on board.

Whilst reporting into the Head of Engineering, you will be aligned primarily to the AI team and to other teams as the need arises.  Working closely with data and machine learning scientists, product managers, architects, big data and machine learning engineers, and senior leadership, you will work with the teams to deliver and support state-of-the-art, Azure-based data infrastructure and ETL pipelines supporting ML & Data Science initiatives.   

You contribute to the overall data strategy and drive strategic big data initiatives. You bring engineering leadership as we evolve our big data platform and we transition to a data mesh architecture and help manage the operations and tech debt of the platform and data product teams.

You work closely with the platform and data product teams to refine their existing development practices, processes, and technologies, as well as explore new ones. You help them to overcome complex technical hurdles and if needed you will join a team to work on stories and code alongside them. You also work closely with your peers in the Principal Engineering team, to share your innovations and initiatives across Tech and to support others doing the same.

About you

You are a seasoned Big Data Engineer with a depth of practical knowledge in guiding Big Data engineering teams through the full delivery lifecycle. You are passionate about mentoring and developing others and have a breadth of exposure to data engineering and architecture.  Experience of transitioning an organisation to a data mesh operating model would be valuable.

You have many years of professional experience in distributed data processing using industry standard big data frameworks, storage, data orchestration and data streaming technologies  within a cloud environment.  We use Microsoft Azure but transferable knowledge of other cloud providers is fine.   You have expert level programming skills in at least one of python or scala.

You take pride in being considered a ‘go-to’ technical authority with deep knowledge and skills. You are happy to help teams and team members to deliver great software, whether through general advice and guidance, hands-on coaching, working through technical designs or as a point of escalation if required.

You follow good software crafting approaches, with a security and operational readiness mindset. We use automated, repeatable CI/CD pipelines to deploy safely right through to production, and infrastructure as code is standard practice in our teams. 

The ASOS way

We do things a certain way - The ASOS Way. It’s in our DNA and runs through everything we do. It defines who we are, what we do and how we do it. Some things change - these don’t.

Passionate

We are proud to be a part of ASOS. We always give our best and we celebrate our successes.

Customer Obsessed

We know our customers love fashion and we understand what they want. We know our stuff inside and out and we put our customers at the heart of everything we do.

Restlessly Innovative
We never stand still. We give it a go and we are brave.

Collaborative and Respectful
We work together to get the job done. We grow ideas from within. We make things happen and we do the right thing.

People are the future of our business and we have really big ideas. We know we need people who can turn these ideas into reality – it’s our people that make the difference.

What can we offer you?  

•    Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme 
•    Performance related bonus 
•    Flex benefits allowance - which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits 
•    25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday 
•    Employee discount (excellent savings off ASOS items across our full range) 
•    Tech Develops - our internal tech focussed skills development programme to focus on your personal growth as a technologist 
•    Opportunity to represent ASOS at industry leading events 
•    Opportunity to help shape and drive our DE&I initiatives in Tech (like our WIT movement and Diversity mentoring in Tech) 
•    Opportunity to make an impact from day one and work with the latest in cutting edge of technology 
•    Dynamic working with time from home and some time working from our offices in London and Belfast.  
 
We are equal! We’re committed to creating an inclusive workforce. We believe in a world where you have the freedom to explore and express yourself without judgement, no matter who you are or where you’re from. Where you value yourself and feel proud of who you are. Where individuality is a source of confidence because difference makes the world a better place.