Position: Data engineer - Irish e-commerce market leader
Company: Sonalake
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

Our partner provides a technology platform to brands and retailers that wish to sell online into global markets. Their platform makes brands’ websites feel local to international shoppers, and makes it easier for them to complete their purchase, moving seamlessly through the buyer journey, from checkout to returns.

By focussing relentlessly on innovation around the shopper journey, they’ve built a global crossborder eCommerce platform that translates exceptional customer experiences into scalable, sustainable growth.

**Role description**

This is exciting times for the Data team in the company, as they are currently in the early stages of designing a sustainable data environment, through Google Cloud, that will provide the foundations for fast, data-driven management decisions, and discover new insights in a growing market.
This opportunity is a perfect fit for a motivated, curious and talented developer who is interested in building and influencing this design from an architectural direction, performance, security, etc. perspective. 

**Key responsibilities**

•	You should be committed to delivering fast, delivering quality and 
        possess a passion for data and the value it can bring. 
•	Working with the rest of the data team on GCP to build a dedicated 
        data architecture to support the needs of the company and its partner 
        retailers. 
•	Concept building, case building and interacting with product teams and 
         business units;
•	Production of technical specifications and estimations of work;
•	Development of solutions and delivery into production;
•	Generation of documentation to support solutions delivered.
•	Peer reviews of work with other team members.

**Desired experience**

•	Strong programming and architectural experience, ideally in Python 
        and/or Java, and SQL
•	Apache Beam, Airflow, Kafka desirable 
•	Experience with Microsoft Azure is desirable 
•	Experience building scalable and high-performant code
•	Experience in producing tested, resilient and well documented 
        applications
•	The ability to take ownership of problems end to end and find creative 
        solutions.. 
•	Experience in architecting, building, maintaining and troubleshooting 
        cloud infrastructure
•	Excellent interpersonal skills, verbal and written communication skills; 
        a team player and keen learner who loves building great things 
        together
•	Knowledge of eCommerce would be also an advantage


**Desired behaviours**

•	You should be eager to work in a fast-paced, eCommerce 
        environment.
•	Excellent personal organisation & work-management skills – ability to 
        prioritise multiple tasks.
•	Strong problem-solving skills.
•	Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
•	High level of dedication to see things through to completion, with high 
        quality.
•	Strong level of versatility & willingness to contribute to a company with 
        phenomenal growth.
•	Willingness to introduce change and challenge existing processes and 
        procedures