Data Engineer - Contract
About Oh Polly
Founded in 2015, Oh Polly is a fast-growing, social first fashion brand that creates trend driven, high quality premium products. With a focus on innovation, global responsibility, and ethics. We’ve built a combined social following of over 10 million across our brands, including Bo+Tee; our activewear line. Operating across multiple global offices, we are a dynamic team offering ambitious individuals the chance to thrive, grow, and take their careers to the next level.
About the department
We are looking for a Data Engineer to drive data integration and management across the business, enabling informed decision-making and actionable insights.
Sitting within the Tech team, this role focuses on unifying data from various third-party tools used across departments such as Operations, Merchandising, Finance, Marketing, and Trading. By consolidating data into our cloud-based warehouse, you’ll create the foundation for efficient data processing and high-quality analytics delivery.
While the initial focus will be on Operations, Merchandising, and Digital Trading, a broad understanding of business functions is essential for success.
Main responsibilities
- Responsible for contributing to the day-to-day data flows from 3rd party systems to our own data environment for use in reporting and analysis
- Build out our own ETL processes and data warehouse architecture to best deliver on the reporting, analysis and insight needs of the business
- Deliver ad-hoc data and reporting as needed
- Driving best-practice process and project management for the Snowflake data warehouse
- Integrating new 3rd party systems into Oh Polly from a data perspective and ensuring the data coming out of different tools is consistent and of high quality
- Building from the ground up how to best utilise data across our Operations functions – move away from several different tools and manual inputs to a streamlined and consistent approach to helps to drive Operations performance
- Work with the Tech team to ensure all data coming out of systems is of high quality and uses consistent definitions.
- Collect business requirements from across departments to build out Oh Polly future data strategy
- Apply best practice data quality, data governance, project management strategies and techniques.
- Proactively assist in problem solving within the team and across teams
Requirements
- You are technical by nature, with experience across a variety of programming languages (SQL, Python are essential)
- Experienced in working with server and/or cloud SQL databases
- Able to translate business needs into technical data requirements
- Experience with DBT for transformations is desirable.
- Driven by best-practice and doing things the right way
- Well organised with a systematic approach to work and close attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written & verbal
- Have 2+ year’s experience working in a similar engineering capacity.
- An understanding of data processes and experience working with and/or developing ETL processes
- Experience of manipulating/analysing data from large databases.
- Project Management qualifications (e.g. Prince, Agile); ideal but not essential
What's on offer?
- 50% discount on all Oh Polly, Bo+Tee products.
- Salary: £50,000-£55,000
- Hours: Monday – Friday 9.00-5.30 (Flexible hours)
- Minimum 3 months contract
- Learning and Development opportunities.
- Corporate gym membership.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- 25 days annual leave + an extra day for your Birthday.
- Company Pension.
This Company is an equal opportunities employer
Oh Polly job positions are open to all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
- Department
- IT
- Locations
- Manchester, Wirral
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Wirral
Some of Our Perks & Benefits
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Competitive Salary
We review our salaries regularly
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Enhanced Holiday Entitlement
You deserve a break after all your hard work
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Your Birthday Off
To celebrate being you
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50% Discount on Company Products
By far our most popular benefit
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Flexible Working Options
We want to make it work for you
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Enhanced Company Pension
Your future is important
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Corporate Gym Membership
Helping to keep you healthy in body and mind
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Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
Extra help for your most precious time
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Personal Development Plan
We prioritise developing our people
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Cycle to Work Scheme
Its good for you and your environment
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Company Sick Pay
To help when you are not 100%
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Bright Modern Open Plan Offices
They really are lovely places to work
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Employee Assistance Programme
Supporting physical and mental health
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Employee Rewards Platform
To say thank you and give recognition
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
Our culture is diverse, creative and collaborative. Our teams are committed, ambitious and hard working. We offer an environment to flourish, develop and take your career to the next level.
All of our clothes are designed in the U.K and we are passionate about nurturing fresh and upcoming talent within the fashion industry – whether this is through working with the latest bloggers or spotting the next marketing guru in the making!
We work with hundreds of women across the world, with 70% of global senior management positions in the UK and LA being held by women – a striking contrast to the majority of fashion brands globally. Furthermore, there is no gender pay gap among workers in the same roles, regardless of where they are based around the world.
We are currently experiencing phenomenal growth and there are many opportunities to join our fun and dynamic teams across the globe. Click on our current vacancies or contact our recruitment team, they would love to hear from you!
Data Engineer - Contract
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