The Role
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design and maintain data pipelines, ensure data governance, and mentor team members while focusing on customer-driven engineering.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Storio group:
We are Storio group, a place where life’s stories are made, crafted and shared. A place where we create new ways to pass memories and stories between people and generations. And where, together, we make joy unforgettable. Through our brands including Photobox and Albelli, we bring our customers’ stories to life through a range of high-quality personalised photo products, like photo books, wall decor, calendars & gifts. Our innovative technology enables customers to easily personalise their creations to keep for themselves or share as the most thoughtful of gifts.
About The Role:
We are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineerto join our London-based data team and help us build a platform that accelerates a decentralised-by-design data adoption model within the business. We care about trustable, usable data and we want you to bring your technical expertise to make that happen. You’re a software engineer at heart, you thrive in the data domain and care deeply about customer outcome-focused engineering excellence.
Day to day, you will build observable, scalable and resilient data services that ingest data from source systems into consuming applications such as our data warehouse to meet the needs of analytics engineers and stakeholders. You will make significant contributions to solution designs, provide technical guidance to other team members and champion iterative approaches to software delivery. You will work within a cross-functional mission-led team, led by a product manager, an engineering manager and a principal engineer.
About Our Data & ML Team:
Data & AI powers our growth and innovation. We build enterprise platforms to create actionable insight enabling colleagues to make effective decisions and create proactive, automated, hyper-personalised experiences for our customers.
We have a growing data and AI team in the UK and Netherlands. We function as the backbone for a variety of data-hungry consumers and platforms across the business within Marketing, Finance, Operations and Product teams. Our AI photo services are at the heart of our consumer experience and we’re expanding our footprint towards decentralised ML adoption within the business. As a team, we have come together through mergers. We are at the end of a phase of simplification of legacy infrastructure and moving into the next phase of consolidation and growth.
How You Make Your Mark:
- Collaborate effectively within a cross-functional, mission-led team, led by a product manager and engineering manager, contributing to the team’s strategy, roadmap, and OKRs.
- Build and maintain data pipelines for ingesting and serving datasets to various downstream applications and data warehouses.
- Design and build evolvable, maintainable and reusable data models (both logical and physical) on strong engineering foundations to support business needs.
- Champion and ensure adoption of software engineering and data engineering best practices to build a well-engineered and well-governed data platform aligned with customer needs.
- Own technical solution design for complex features within your team, leading timely and successful implementation through your own and others’ work.
- Enable continuous improvement efforts by identifying opportunities to enhance business value, improve cost efficiency, and increase the speed and quality of delivery.
- Mentor engineers within and outside your team by sharing best practices across the software development lifecycle, writing high-quality code, and contributing to a positive, feedback-driven team culture.
- Effectively partner with stakeholders and other teams to define and deliver the right solution for the right business problem statement.
Our Tech Stack:
- Cloud Data Warehouse - Snowflake
- AWS Data Solutions - Kinesis, SNS, SQS, S3, ECS, Lambda
- Data Governance & Quality - Collate & Monte Carlo
- Infrastructure as Code - Terraform
- Data Integration & Transformation - Python, DBT, Fivetran, Airflow
- CI/CD - Github Actions / Jenkins
- Business Intelligence - Looker
Skills & Attributes We'd Like To See:
- Extensive experience in data engineering, including designing and maintaining robust data pipelines.
- Proficient in SQL and relational databases; familiarity with modern data warehousing solutions such as Snowflake is preferred.
- Proficient in programming, capable of developing and maintaining tested, production-ready data solutions, preferably in Python.
- Familiarity with major cloud providers and their data services, concrete experience in building production-grade data solutions on AWS is a plus.
- Experience in data modeling and warehouse architecture design.
- Experience with data orchestration and workflow management tools such as Airflow.
- Solid understanding of data ingestion, transformation, and ELT/ETL practices.
- Expertise on data transformation frameworks such as DBT.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolsTerraform preferred.
- Experience with version control systems, GitHub preferred.
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) practices and tools, such as GitHub Actions.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team, understand and interpret functional and non-functional requirements.
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with technical and non-technical colleagues.
Nice To Have Experience:
- A degree in a STEM field, e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics.
- Familiarity with data integration tools such as Fivetran.
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About us
At Storio Group, we help people hold onto life's moments. We make personalised photo products that turn fleeting memories into things you can keep, share, and re-live.
Every person at Storio Group helps create our products and shape our company. You will see the impact of your work daily. We invite you to make your mark on our business, products, and customers' lives.
We act with heart by putting people first and valuing diverse perspectives. We give our best and aim for high standards in all we do. We own our work, taking initiative to find solutions. We embrace curiosity, always learning and trying new things. We find the joy in our work and create a positive environment.
Top Skills
Airflow
AWS
Collate
Dbt
Ecs
Fivetran
Github Actions
Jenkins
Kinesis
Lambda
Looker
Monte Carlo
Python
S3
Snowflake
Sns
Sqs
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Hello. We are Storio group. We make joy unforgettable by bringing our customers’ stories to life through a range of high-quality personalized photo products, like photo books, wall decor, calendars & gifts.
Our innovative technology enables customers to easily personalize their creation to keep for themselves or share as the most thoughtful of gifts.
Storio group is a place where life’s stories are made, crafted and shared. A place where we create new ways to pass memories and stories between people and generations
