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Head of Data Platform

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
8 Feb 2021

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Function
Technology
Level
Manager
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Job Details

Zalando is a highly digitized business which produces petabytes of raw data. This data treasure offers opportunities to enhance our business both in the analytical and the machine learning space. In order to leverage these opportunities, data needs to be captured, refined and accessible in a secure, compliant and cost-efficient way. To help with these processes, the Data Platform department provides opinionated first-in-class tools and infrastructure for storing, accessing, transforming, serving and querying data, as well as offering an integrated machine learning development environment. By providing one central data platform, we enable data engineers to focus on the business problems instead of data infrastructure, improving productivity. The product portfolio includes a data lake, data transformation, data pipeline orchestration, a fast-serving layer and a querying engine. For machine learning it provides a notebook, an orchestration engine and an environment to build, train and deploy models. In this role, you will be a key player in defining and implementing the technical solutions which are required to fulfill our company data strategy.

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Build up, lead, manage, inspire, and grow multiple data infrastructure teams
  • Engage with product managers and other leaders across the company to deliver outstanding products to satisfy the needs of our internal customers
  • Implement our company-wide data strategy by defining solutions which fulfill our strategic and operational needs
  • Develop and execute a clear migration plan for the transition of our centralized business intelligence pipeline to a decentralized approach based on isolated transformation processes

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • Strong technical leadership experience; you bring at least 10 years of data engineering and 5 years of leadership experience to the table
  • Data and ML expertise; in-depth experience with large-scale cloud-based data and ML infrastructure as well as tooling landscape (e.g. Spark, Presto, Exadata, Exasol, Databricks, BigQuery, and SageMaker)
  • Customer focus; a deep understanding of the requirements of key data stakeholders like data scientists, data engineers or data analysts
  • Visionary and strategic mindset; you can define, develop and advocate a product vision and strategy, have a progressive approach and the ability to introduce and inspire change. You work through mechanisms, not meetings
  • Excellent communicator; the ability to inform, convince and persuade a range of stakeholders, also on executive level, in both verbal and written form
  • Business acumen; manages a cost center with a high cost footprint; has an eye for cost-efficiency as well as contract negotiation experience

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 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.

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
Germany
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