Data Engineer

Appriss Retail
London
1 year ago
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About Appriss Retail

Appriss Retail provides real-time decisions and active risk monitoring to enable our customers to maximize profitability while managing risk. Our solutions are continually adapting to changing market conditions.

We bring 20+ years of retail data science expertise and experience. We serve a global base of leading commerce partners, representing 1/3 of all US omnichannel retail sales activity across 150,000 retail locations across specialty, apparel, department store, hard goods, big box, grocery, pharmacy, and hospitality businesses in 45 countries on six continents.

The company provides compelling, relevant, and profitable collective intelligence to operations, finance, marketing, and loss prevention. Appriss Retail's performance-improvement solutions yield measurable results with significant return on investment.


About the role

Data Engineers at Appriss Retail are part of a team that followsDataOpsbest practices and owns the standardized data assets and the processes around it that support our products and enable our customers and internal teams.

The Data Engineer will develop and code software programs, algorithms, and automated processes to cleanse,integrate, and evaluate large datasets from multiple disparate sources.They will analyze and evaluatethe usability of data provided by customers and interact with product and service teams to

identifyquestions and issues for data quality.They will alsodevelop, and program methods, processes, andsystems toconsolidateand analyze diverse data sources to generate actionable insights.

What you"ll do

  • Developandprogram methods and processes toconsolidate, normalize, and analyze data.

  • Buildrobust and massively scalabledata pipelines to map data into our data warehouse that powers our various products.

  • Understand the data and implement quality checks.

  • Monitor and improvetoolset/libraries.

  • Work with large datasets.

  • Present results from these analyses to managementandcommunicateissues to and fromclients, and coordinate resolution of those issues.

  • Monitor the system's business performance,identifyareas for improvement andassistin the identification and tracking of issues.

  • Interacts closelywith Support and Engineering teams to deployandimprove the products.

  • Participate in on-call rotation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an analytical related field such as Statistics or Computer Science orat least 2+ yearsequivalent professional experience.

  • Experience with SQL(2+ years)

  • ProficiencywithPython(2+ years)

  • Ability to work with APIs, structured and unstructured data.

  • Experience processing and analyzing large data sets.

  • Experience with data warehouse solutions (VMWare Greenplum or Snowflake).

  • Good verbal and written communication skills.

  • Ability and willingness to work with a team.

  • Proven ability to work on time-sensitive deliverables.


Appriss does not hold a sponsorship licence, and therefore will not be able to employ a candidate who requires a certificate of sponsorship in order to be eligible to work in the UK.



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