Developer / Data Engineer - 12 Month Contract

Please note: This is a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave

While you’ll have heard our name, there’s a lot you probably don’t know about NEXT. Like how we create most of our systems ourselves – whether it’s a website, mobile app or application. What’s more, we’re growing. Fast. And it’s the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business. 

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding Business Intelligence Systems team working with a great mix of experience both inside Next and across the industry. BIS is transforming from a traditional SQL team to a modern hybrid cloud platform bringing together the best data, analytical and reporting tools to deliver new and enhance existing products and support our users.

About the team

Business Intelligence works with Finance, Product, Warehouse, Marketing, the Brand teams, almost everyone to design and build the data solutions that NEXT relies on to measure, report and analyse the performance of the business and its operations. We are SQL at heart but embracing new tech to modernise the platform and really are leading the charge toward platform modernisation.

This position is within the BIS Product Workstream, where our primary responsibility is to complete projects to support Retail and Product Operations.Our focus lies in technologies such as Azure, Databricks, Power BI, and ADF. We actively explore and adopt new technologies to innovate and enhance our processes. We are a growing team of 80+ developers, analysts and product managers responsible for providing the business with data solutions. 

About the role

In this role you will be working in a product team developing solutions to help fulfil the business’ needs, which can include providing new data for them to access that we obtain from a variety of sources or enhancing the way we work to deliver better results. 

BIS supports over 70 BI products today and we are always building more. We work with the business / product owners to define the product development roadmap eventually decommissioning old solutions and replacing them with newer more performant and scalable solutions that will meet the growing needs of the business for years to come.

While our legacy platform is SQL which will play a huge part in our product base for years to come, we are also rapidly expanding our modern data platform so we are seeking developers who have experience in tools such as DataBricks (Spark), Data Factory, Data Lake, PowerBI and Synapse.

We are looking for people who want to learn new skills, get hands-on experience with the latest technologies and become very knowledgeable of BIS systems. Successful candidates will join a great team with a real mix of experience, knowledge and skills. There are great opportunities to learn and a real potential to advance your career.

Criteria

Essential

• DataBricks or similar and Azure Data Factory
• Languages: SQL, Python
• Data Platform: Azure data lake and SQL Server RDBMS
• ETL: SQL Server Integration Services and ADF
• Able to speak, read and write English at a level that enables you to complete your role, for example, to understand instructions and communicate effectively with stakeholders and/or other team members
• Experienced in effectively working in a collaborative manner in a large scale, fast paced environment within a multifunctional technical team

Desirable

• Languages: PySQL, C#, R
• Reporting: PowerBI or similar 
• Modelling: SQL Server SSAS Tabular (DAX) / Dimensional Modelling / Data Warehousing
• Development Management:  Azure DevOps 
• SQL MI / DB
• ETL: Active Batch, API, Event Hub, Kafka
• AI / ML

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!