Data Engineering Lead

Key Skills

Agile methodologies, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data science techniques, DevOps, Leadership Skill

Job Description

What are we looking for?

• A technical expert and leader, helping build the foundations for new Insights across multiple strategic pillars
• Manage, mentor, coach, develop and inspire a team of enthusiastic data engineers
• Partner with strategic product functions to evaluate business requirements whilst thinking like the end user and translating requests into technical solutions.
• Work alongside the Principal Data Engineer, ensuring that technical implementation of architecture, data modelling and technologies are delivered by the engineering team in an extensible and consistent fashion.
• Collaborate within a cross-domain data solutions team to build a consistent and extensible overall ecosystem
• Engage with senior stakeholders as a primary contact for technical solutions

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Manage an agile team of data engineers. Evolve their skillset and personal development, driving best practices and innovation
• Take technical ownership of Data Engineering projects and products within the ODDA analytics ecosystem
• Partner with the DevOps pillar to promote DevOps & CI/CD methodologies that work successfully within an agile environment
• Facilitate the design & engineering of data products & pipelines in a cloud environment using a progressive tech stack
• Take accountability & ownership for platform frameworks and development best practices which allow engineers of all levels to build extensible, performant and maintainable solutions
• Manage data from across pillars to produce valuable data assets while contributing to a connected foundational data ecosystem
• Drive research of new technologies, promoting the evolution of the ODDA analytics ecosystem
• Manage cross-team and stakeholder relationships to drive collaboration and meet shared goals
• Lead on governance and security practices within our cloud big data platform
• Partner with peers within a cross-domain data solutions team (e.g. product strategy, DevOps, Data Science) to provide multiple strategic D&A pillars with a connected and silo-breaking ecosystem providing first class analytical capability
• Foster a data engineering culture that Is collaborative, inclusive, innovative, and inspiring

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

About Mars:

Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL® and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 130,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.