Staff Data Engineer

Ready to lead, disrupt and reinvent the sleep industry?
We are Emma – The Sleep Company. Created in 2013, we are now the world's largest D2C sleep brand, available in over 30 countries and recommended by many consumer associations in EMEA, APAC, and the Americas. We're pushing the boundaries of technology to transform the world of sleep and we want your help to pull it off.  We're a highly ambitious, hard-working team that pushes you to produce your best work yet. We focus on how we approach problems, we chase growth, and set ambitious goals. Want your ideas to have an impact and your career to grow? Then Emma is the right place for you.

What you'll do

• You will take on the role of a technical lead within our Data Engineering Team .
• You will assess the current data platform architecture and constantly look for opportunities to improve it.
• You will continuously research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.
• You will keep the target architecture specification and reference architectures of our data platform up-to-date.
• You will evaluate the needs of the company to then design, build and integrate information systems.
• You will define best practices, standard processes and architectures for use cases within the data domain.
• You will provide guidance, support and mentoring to junior Data Engineers and contribute to their technical growth.
• You will stay in touch with our stakeholder, both on the business side as well as the technical side, and provide updates on development processes and costs.
• You will become an expert for our tool set, define how we should use it, and constantly search for upgrades or improvements.
• You will perform technical pilots as well as proof of concepts to assess their advantages. Based on this you will give recommendations and define timelines, goals and roadmaps for following projects.

Who we are looking for

• You have several years of proven experience as a Data Engineer or Data Platform Specialist.
• You have experience with cloud services, ideally AWS (knowledge in Redshift, EC2, Glue, etc. would be a plus).
• You have experience with different tools for ETL processes and process orchestration (preferably Matillion, dbt, Apache Airflow).
• You have prior knowledge of implementing Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi or Terraform.
• You have proven experience with the implementation of data warehousing architectures and layers.
• You have worked with message-based integration technologies (like SQS/ SNS).
• You have proven experience in data modeling and implementation of dimensional models and start-schemas (3NF and data vault 2.0 would be a plus).
• You have proven experience in delivering enterprise solutions from design to production using Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and are able to break down design into meaningful tasks.
• You have experience with implementing or working with modern integration methods (APIs (REST, SOAP), ESB, Streaming, CDC, …).
• You have excellent documentation, communication and presentation skills for reporting from team members to C-Level.
• You have a solid understanding of Data governance practices (GDPR, Ataccama or other RDM tools, …).
• You have a good knowledge of cloud infrastructure virtualization with Kubernetes & Docker.

This is what we offer:

• A combination of personal and company growth to accelerate your career and help you reach your goals.
• The chance to work on exciting and challenging projects either independently or as part of a dedicated, international team.
• Responsibility and decision-making authority from day one—you'll create an impact with new, innovative ideas and help shape our company DNA.
• To work and learn from experts in diverse fields and get to know your team members at exciting company events.

Become an Emmie
Emma is transforming the world of sleep - and we want the highest-performing people to help us pull it off. We want you. But only if you're willing to go all in. Only if you're willing to question, disrupt, innovate, and create from the ground up. ​
We proudly celebrate diversity. We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting inclusion in our workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.
Our aim is to get back to you in a couple of days, however, we are currently receiving a large number of applications and this might lead to a delay in the process. We will get back to you as soon as possible!