Senior Data Integration Developer (Maternity Cover) in Bury

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally. We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Data Integration team - Senior Data Integration Developer - 12-month FTC

Role overview:

Working with a wide array of tools, you will work through the full, streaming, enrichment & curation of data into a cloud-based data environment, verifying data, and making sure that links to other key data sets are obtained to allow for simple, effective data analysis for our insight team and data scientists. The role will involve you both engineering data solutions and managing more junior team members working on wider projects.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in the automation & maintenance of pipelines within a cloud-based environment, sourcing data using a range of different methods, whilst carrying out verification that the data is acceptable for ingestion.
• Analysis of large data sets using tools such as Python & SQL.
• Setting up new pipelines for the full stream/enrichment/curation process.
• Upkeep of source code locations.

Role objectives and KPI’s:

• Analysis of large data sets using tools such as Python & SQL.
• Creation stream/enrichment/curation process utilising a wide variety of data sources.
• Upkeep of source code locations/Git Hub Repositories.
• Set up of tables/views/procedures.
• Building of large scale analytical data sets.
• Investigation of new/alternative technology.
• Managing team members and supporting their development.

Competencies and behaviours:

• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Working with People
• Relating and Networking
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Learning and Researching
• Planning and Organising
• Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives

Skills and Experience:

• Extensive hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including cloud storage, BigQuery and related data services.
• Proven experience using Cloud Run and Python to design, build and automate data workflows with GCP.
• Experience managing a wider team of Data Integration Developers / Data Engineers and ensuring they deliver against plans.
• Ability to decide on the overall concept and vision.
• Creating road maps.
• Experience of Pyspark coding or equivalent.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.