What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Designer position at Kingfisher?
Overview
We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.
At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.
We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
- Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
- Life insurance financed by the employer
- 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
- Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
- Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
- Wellbeing programme for employees
- Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
- Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
- Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
- Employee referral programme
What's the job?
About the Role
In this role, you will be responsible for understanding and documenting Enterprise Data Warehouse data designs. This includes identifying data sources, detailing how source data is ingested into the data platform, and defining data mappings and data models. You will also play a key role in specifying data harmonization requirements, calculations, derivations, and transformation logic. Your work will ensure data integrity, consistency, and accuracy, supporting robust decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Design and document ingestions from existing sources.
- Collaborate with Principal Data Designer to design and document ingestions from new sources.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and data platform teams to create designs that meet or exceed requirements, comply with principles, with supporting documentation delivered accurately and on time.
- Keep up to date with the data design principles.
- Contribute to improvements to ways of working and documentation templates.
- Peer review colleagues designs to ensure that they meet the requirements and principles.
- Support the workstream by picking up additional design work when capacity allows.
What you'll bring
Skills
- Data modelling for enterprise data warehouses.
- Works constructively with team and wider network to achieve deliverables.
- Gathers and documents information as guided.
- Understands deliverables and focuses on what is important.
- Works collaboratively in agile development process.
- Engages with key stakeholders inside and outside of own area to make design decisions.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Supports the wider design team by asking questions and offering suggestions during design review sessions
- Communicates clearly and effectively.
- Learns new and deepens existing skills and techniques relevant to the role.
- Excellent command of English (written and spoken)
Desirable Experience
- Querying and transforming data using complex SQL.
- Conducting basic data profiling and analysis.
- Modelling data into simple facts and dimensions (including SCD type 2 dimensions).
- Identifying basic data quality rules from the data source profiling and from business rules.
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