Data Engineer

Charlotte Tilbury
London
1 year ago
Applications closed

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About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the bran­d is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

The Role

 

Data is at the heart of our strategy to engage and delight our customers, and we are determined to harness its power to go as far as we can to deliver a euphoric, personalised experience that they'll love. 

 

We're seeking a skilled and experienced Data Engineer to join our Data function to join our team of data engineers in the design, build & maintenance of the pipelines that support this ambition. The ideal candidate will not only be able to see many different routes to engineering success, but also to work collaboratively with Engineers, Analysts, Scientists & stakeholders to design & build robust data products to meet business requirements.

 

Our stack is primarily GCP, with Fivetran handling change detection capture, Google Cloud Functions for file ingestion, Dataform & Composer (Airflow) for orchestration, GA & Snowplow for event tracking and Looker as our BI Platform. We use Terraform Cloud to manage our infrastructure programmatically as code.

 

Reporting Relationships

 

This role will report into the Lead Data Engineer

 

About you and attributes we're looking for



  • Extensive experience with cloud data warehouses and analytics query engines such as BigQuery, Redshift or Snowflow and a good understanding of cloud technologies in general. 
  • Proficient in SQL, Python and Git 
  • Prior experience with HCL (Terraform configuration language), YAML, JavaScript, CLIs and Bash.
  • Prior experience with serverless tooling e.g. Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambdas, etc.
  • Familiarity with tools such as Fivetran and Dataform/DBT 
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field 
  • Collaborative mindset and a passion for sharing ideas & knowledge
  • Demonstrable experience developing high quality code in the retail sector is a bonus

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

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