Asos Apprenticeships – Senior Big Data Engineer

Job Description:

We deliver technical innovations and pioneer incredible solutions to keep our 20-something market engaged. Our cloud-based architecture enables us to support our global reach and we use agile engineering methods to deliver value fast. We’re extremely ambitious and thrive on the individuality of our amazing employees. Our values encompass everything needed for our tech people to be the thought leaders of tomorrow, and our roles offer a flexible blend of remote and in-office working.

Job Responsibilities:

• Delivering high-quality software which is future proof, scalable and in-line with ASOS standards.
• Using the latest tech, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Spark, Event Hub and Azure Stream Analytics.
• Research and experiment with emerging data technologies and industry trends with a view to bringing business value through early adoption
• Performance related bonus
• Flex benefits allowance – which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• Tech Develops – our internal tech focussed skills development programme to focus on your personal growth as a technologist
• Opportunity to represent ASOS at industry leading events
• Opportunity to help shape and drive our DE&I initiatives in Tech (like our WIT movement and Diversity mentoring in Tech)
• Joining our regular Tech Develops days to learn new things, take part in internal and external hackathons, share your knowledge and help to drive improvements in engineering.
• Continually develop and improve our code and technology, whilst playing an active role in the conception of brand-new features for our millions of global customers.
• Design and build big data pipelines which are scalable, repeatable, and secure, and can reliably provide the quality and throughput of data required for complex machine learning workloads using extremely large datasets.
• Work on a number of big data projects throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Working as part of an enthusiastic and motivated development team comprised of software engineers, scientists, platform engineers, solution architects and analysts, to ensure the technical requirements of our numerous stakeholders are met in the most efficient way.

Job Requirements:

• Knowledge of advanced analytics and insights techniques (e.g. predictive analytics, machine learning, segmentation)
• Knowledge of deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, Keras
• Knowledge of machine learning libraries like MLLIB, sklearn
• Experience of Azure Machine Learning Platform or other ML platform.
• Experience in retail and/or e-commerce
• Deep exposure to Microsoft Azure
• Exposure to a microservices architecture
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of advanced analytics and insights techniques (e.g. predictive analytics, machine learning, segmentation)

Qualification & Experience:

• Experience in building real time/batch data, high throughput processing infrastructure
• Knowledge of RDBMS, ETL and Data Warehouse Technologies
• Fully-automated provisioning and application deployment pipelines
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps, Ansible, TeamCity, Jenkins, Octopus
• Infrastructure automation using a scripting language like bash or powershell
• Configuration management
• Strong understanding of Big Data core concepts and technologies
• Strong Cloud (Azure/AWS/Google) experience, preferably Azure.

Job Details:

Company: Asos

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: London, England

Application Deadline: N/A