Data Engineer

About Centric Software:

Centric Software® is a global leader, providing an innovative and AI-enabled product-concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. We equip retail, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and consumer goods brands with pioneering best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. Our technology powers brands to streamline processes, drive efficiency and operate with confidence in an ever-changing market.

Our story is one of rapid growth, bold ideas and extraordinary opportunities. We’re here to challenge the status quo—and we’re looking for brilliant people who want to do the same. No matter where you are in the world, this is your chance to be part of something exceptional.

You will have excellent experience of cloud technologies, data engineering technologies and best practices and will be comfortable working as part of multi-skilled team in the delivery of cutting-edge solutions in high pressure environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery high-quality code for data solutions, in-line with approved data architecture and high-level designs.

• Operate comfortably in both the Application domain (OLTP, RDBMS) and the Analytics domain (data lake, data warehouse, big data, reporting etc)

• Collaborate with wider team (application, QA, UI, dev-ops, security, infrastructure, SRE) to ensure we are delivering the best possible solutions.

• Actively participate in all regular delivery team rituals (stand-ups, refinement, planning, retrospectives code reviews, technical discussions etc).

• Ensure the scalability, reliability and security of all data solutions.

• Be a ‘data expert’ to support other team members in both delivery and production support.

• Be proactive in optimisation and continuous improvement of data solutions.

• Stay updated with industry trends and advancements in data technologies.

Desirable Qualifications:

• 3+ year's experience as a Data Engineer in cloud-native technologies.

• Strong understanding of wide range of data concepts and technologies, including: OLTP, OLAP, data warehousing, data modelling, data lakes/lake-house, data storage formats (e.g. parquet/iceberg/delta), streaming, graph databases, data quality frameworks, data observability, data visualisation, orchestration and micro-services architecture.

• High proficiency in delivering data solutions using programming languages/frameworks including but not limited to: SQL, Python, DBT, Iceberg, Pyspark

• Excellent experience in AWS data technologies (S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Lake Formation, SQS, QuickSight, RDS, Redshift, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Lambda).

• Experience of delivering orchestration/workflow solutions using tools like Prefect, Airflow etc

• Experience of data quality frameworks (e.g. Great Expectations)

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and creatively.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Experience with CI/CD practices.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery teams

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.