Overview

Lead Data Designer

Who we are and what we create?

Kingfisher plc is an international home improvement company with approximately 1,380 stores, supported by a team of 80,000 colleagues. We operate in 8 countries across Europe under retail banners including B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt, Screwfix, TradePoint and Koçtaş. At Kingfisher, our purpose is to make home improvement accessible for everyone. In 2017 we opened a Global Business Services (GBS) Centre in Krakow, to which we are looking for candidates for the above-mentioned position.

What’s in it for you as a professional in Group Data?

• Be a pioneer, get in right at the beginning of our journey and establish our culture and ways of working in Kingfisher GBS
• Its all new stuff! No legacy BI to own
• Work with experienced data professionals from a range of industry backgrounds
• Use the latest technology in a truly agile, product orientated deliver environment

If you are looking for a place where you can always just be yourself, you will be receiving understanding from your colleagues, and your curiosity of the world will be valued, it means that you’ve come to the right place, because we include the diversity!

What can we offer you?

• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

What's the job?

Role purpose:

Leading the resources who are accountable for understanding and documenting the detail on where to source data, how the source data will be ingested into the data platform, data mappings, and modelling. Including details on the data harmonisation required, calculations, derivation transformation logic.

What will you be responsible for?

• Managing and mentoring more junior design resources
• Working with the Data Solutions Design manager to identify key areas of focus, resolve key issues and liaise with Solutions and Enterprise architects as needed
• Working with systems and business SMEs to gather requirements
• Working with the Solutions Architect, source system and business SMEs to understand data structures and usage, including data refresh cadence, any cleansing /transformation logic, volume of history retention, etc.
• Gathering business requirements and enhancing with technical details and creating the Source-to-Target mapping documentation that is used by Data Engineers for implementation
• Documenting data quality rules to be incorporated as part of the build process, with expected behaviour of the product to various outputs from those rules
• Working closely with Solution Architects, Data Architect and Data Engineers to define data harmonisations rules and best modelling approach to satisfy business needs
• Working with the PO to create user stories with agreed definition of done

What you'll bring

What do we expect from you?

• Ideally around 4-5 years of previous data experience, including data change programmes or data platform build initiatives in relevant industries
• Experience in leading small data design teams
• Demonstrable experience and expertise in handling large complex data sets
• SQL expertise and experience with other modern data tools
• Expertise in Kimball and other data modelling techniques
• A results-oriented mindset with an eye for detail and a passion for data

To get to know us better visit:

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