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Head of Data Intelligence

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
22 Sep 2020

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Function
Operations
Level
Manager
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ABOUT THE TEAM

Department: Enterprise Applications and Architecture
Reports to: Head of Enterprise and Applications
Team Size: 20+
Recruiter Name, E-mail: Abdul Tafadar, abdul.tafadar@zalando.de

As a Head of DATA, you will gain end-to-end responsibility for the respective Technology Products in Enterprise Applications and Architectures department. You will lead all the functions to make the Enterprise Applications (with strong focus on SAP Retail, HANA, AWS) successful. You will be technical lead for migration project (migration from BW to BW4/HANA System, building SQL Driven Data Warehouse on HANA Enterprise). Together with Data teams you will be the front runner for designing, implementing, running Enterprise Big Data Warehouse in AWS and lead finance digital transformation efforts of Zalando Group.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Establish strategic & tactical direction for the DATA organisation and solutions and ensure that projects and ops stay consistent with corporate goals
  • Drive SAP and non-SAP innovation by continuously reviewing and analysing the effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Responsibility for Business Warehousing implementation in the organisation
  • Defining and implementation of roadmap in DATA space.
  • Technical leadership: You provide the right guidance to your team and help them solve their technical questions, such as choice of tech stack, system architecture, code quality and system performance. You have a clear mid- and long-term technical vision for your products and foster close collaboration with other Engineering Leads to be in line with our overall tech strategy. You proudly represent Zalando at conferences and meetups and give technical talks.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • 10+ years experience in Data domain (focus BW, HANA AWS, Data Management, etc.) with a strong understanding of IT methodologies to drive the business requirements of the future state
  • Experience in coaching, team-building, and conflict resolution and bringing typically 5-7 years of people management experience in an agile development environment.
  • Previous experience within HANA native, Big Data Architectures as either SAP CC Manager / Team Leader
  • Able to drive the Teams forward, and ensure deliverables are met
  • Strong experience as project lead in big transformation projects
  • Strong people management skills, and able to communicate with and bridge the gap between the IT and Business
  • A fire-fighter / troubleshooter - able to sweep clean existing issues with the SAP implementation
  • Comprehensive knowledge of Business processes and IT Service management concepts, practices, and procedures. Know How in Cloud, streaming (Kafka) and other enterprise tools are highly appreciated
  • Experience in systems integration, Microservices, and project management with an ability to understand the implications of technology solutions and the latest innovations
  • Hands on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Continuous Deployment, AWS, Databricks, git
  • Experience with ML related libraries (e.g. numpy, pandas, scikit-learn) and frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, Spark)
  • Worked in one or more of the following programming languages: Java, Scala and Python
  • A good understanding of machine learning topics and a strong mathematical background
  • Fluent German and English (nice-to-have)
PERKS AT WORK
  • Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
  • Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
  • Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
  • Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available only in select locations)

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

Company

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.

Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.

Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.

  • Fashion Store​
    Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
     
  • Offprice
    The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
     
  • Zalando's Private Labels
    Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
     
  • Zalon
    Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
     
  • Zalando Marketing Services
    The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
     
  • Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
    Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
     
  • Zalando Partner Services
    Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.


With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.

Company info
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Telephone
+49 (0)30 2759 4693
Location
Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
 Berlin
Germany
10243
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