Data Engineer - CFF Insights

At IKEA we have the vision to create a better everyday life at home for the many people. We strive to be affordable, but in a truly people and planet positive way. Our digital capabilities play a crucial role in achieving this goal. We believe that you will thrive when you meet great people that are on the same mission at IKEA. People that are not only talented and skilled, but also humble, supportive and committed to leading home-furnishing retail into the future. Our team enables analytical insights into many of our unit operations and fulfilment capabilities and it is already used by thousands of co-workers across the globe today.

OUR TEAM WITHIN IKEA

We are a diverse team with 9 different nationalities present in our data and product teams and majority of us work from Amsterdam. On the Data & Analytics side we have data engineering and data analyst / BI development capabilities for building data solutions, structured datasets and reporting insights on top of various data sources specific to the Ikea’s Customer Fulfilment capabilities. The variety of data available and the possibilities to utilize it are growing. Making good use of the data, creating reliable metrics and meaningful insights can bring improvements to the efficiency and cost consciousness of our operations that affect not only our different business processes and our co-workers but also in the end our many customers around the world.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

As a Data Engineer, you will play an important role in the design, development, and operations of our data products, data transformation pipelines, related GCP infrastructure and data modelling activities and you can also provide advisory for other subdomains and product teams on how they could be building their own data products for others to consume. Together with our team, product owner and possible other stakeholders, you refine product requirements and translate them to technical solutions. Herein, you adopt a value-first technology-second mindset, to ensure the team contributes to the company goals. You take responsibility for the technical refinement and delivery of sprint stories and epics, in collaboration with other engineers, the Product Owner, and Specialists. From data engineering point of view the important aspects are with building processes to bring data available, aggregated, and usable from various sources. Your work will consist of implementing well-structured dimensionally modelled data marts, orchestration mechanisms and the metrics in co-operation with our product owners and specialists, data analysts and other stakeholders. Our cloud platform of choice is GCP, and we publish our data marts through BigQuery. Going forward in the role after gaining some more context understanding, your work could steer more towards cloud technology implementations or towards a more business-oriented data engineering meets business analyst kind of a role interacting with other product teams and to help them and us to also use their data.

WHO YOU ARE

What follows is our wish list! If you do not recognize yourself in all these points, you might still be an excellent candidate for the role. We like to think long-term and invest in people’s development.

• 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer in a commercial environment (experience will be considered for a senior title)
• A proven track record of designing and building data pipelines and data marts
• DataForm or DBT experience - we use DataForm which is quite like DBT conceptually, but templating and scripting is done in JavaScript
• Proficiency with our tech stack, most importantly Google Cloud Platform, Python, SQL, BigQuery, Airflow, preferably with hands-on project experience
• Excellent communicative skills, with good command of the English language
• Understanding of collaborative software engineering practices (Git, Agile, Scrum, CI/CD, DevOps)
• Strong knowledge of the data engineering field, including the latest tooling and developments, being able to lead design choices
• Self-organized and able to work independently, while collaborating proactively with others in a team and the wider organization
• Any form of domain expertise in inventory and/or logistics operations is a strong plus

The IKEA culture and values resonate with you.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

• A challenging and diverse job, with exceptional opportunities to grow
• An exciting, flexible, empowering but also friendly and fun work environment, in a truly value-based company
• The opportunity to have global positive impact with your work, both for people and planet
• A wealth of data, with a massive potential unlocked through engineering
• Work with the latest data engineering technologies (you will have a strong influence on which ones) on a Google Cloud Platform infrastructure
• A team of great colleagues to continuously learn with and from, with world-class experience across all aspects of data and analytics
• Hardware and OS of your choice

We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.