Overview

Overview 

We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in. 

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation. 

If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at kingfisher.recruitment@kingfisher.com 

We advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles. 

Role Overview: 

As a Lead Software Engineer for Master Data Management/ Content Management, you will lead the MDM development teams across the software lifecycle to design, develop, build, and launch and maintain our MDM products, as well as providing oversight, direction, and mentorship. You will provide leadership and implement leading practices and standards for MDM, enforce data governance procedures, and ensure data integrity across multiple platforms.

What's the job?

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities: 

• Facilitate and lead the design of scalable MDM solutions that meet business needs.
• Collaborate with architecture capabilities to ensure alignment with Technology and Data Architecture.
• Conduct effective technical reviews of Data Pipelines to ensure quality of Information delivery.
• Mentor and Coach junior team members on data management & data services best practices.
• Evangelise and promote current technological developments.
• Support product capability in collecting ideas and setting priorities for prototyping and development.
• Deliver products in accordance with their targets.
• Monitor relevant product KPIs and initiating and managing promotional activities based on development.
• Identify synergies and address interdependencies with other product teams.
• Partner with security resources to ensure compliance with data security and privacy mandates.
• Research and recommend new and emerging MDM technologies, methodologies, and standards.
• Ensure consistency and compatibility with all other system technology components.
• Evaluate, prototype and evolving the MDM framework for new technologies related to enterprise analytics. These technologies may include unstructured "Big Data", data grids, and cloud-based computing.

What you'll bring

Required Skills & Experience:

• Recent experience delivering Master Data Management solutions, in multiple domains such as Customer, Product, etc.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT/API based Integration patterns for Data Services.
• Experience in Data Warehousing and Data management
• Experience delivering solutions in Cloud
• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, Test Automation in Data Services area.
• Solid understanding of MDM benefits, best practices & challenges.
• Understanding of Data Governance and how it relates to successful MDM.
• Experience in multifaceted landscape of data domains and systems such as PIM, DAM, CRM, SAP, and Data Lake technologies.
• Riversand or Stibo Product Information Management and/or Opentext DAM experience or equivalent is preferred.
• Reporting and Data visualisation experience would be advantageous.