Prada Group is hiring a Data Engineer to join our global Cloud Data Platform team at our Milan headquarters. You will play a key role in managing data operations, with a focus on sales, customer, and marketing data, driving analysis, modeling, and development to support our business evolution.
What You'll Do
- Gain a deep understanding of business and technical needs to support model evolution and digital transformation, focusing on customer intelligence data and sales KPIs.
- Design, maintain, and enhance key datasets to ensure they are high-quality, certified, and easily accessible.
- Analyze and develop data operations and pipelines following enterprise guidelines for data quality, governance, and catalog curation.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and end users to build scalable and agile solutions.
- Develop, deploy, and manage highly efficient and automated data pipelines using cloud-based technologies like Azure, Databricks, and Unity Catalog.
- Maintain and improve existing data pipelines, integrating new features and change requests using an agile approach.
What We're Looking For
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related STEM field.
- 3+ years of experience in intensive data operations within Big Data and cloud infrastructures/platforms.
- Strong experience in retail analytics, with a focus on modeling and leveraging sales and customer KPIs.
- Strong background in Big Data approaches and DBMS/Data Warehouse modeling, optimization, and management.
- Deep knowledge of SQL and Spark-related programming languages.
- Extensive expertise in data preparation, integration, modeling, and governance processes.
- Proven experience designing and managing end-to-end production-ready solutions.
- Experience developing microservices and APIs using technologies like REST and OAuth.
- Proficiency in configuring cloud infrastructures, with a strong preference for Microsoft Azure services.
- Familiarity with stream-processing systems, lambda architectures, Delta Live Tables, Azure Event Hubs, and Spark Streaming.
- Fluency in both Italian and English, written and spoken.
Nice to Have
- A good understanding of retail and/or customer-related processes and back-end operational systems.
Technical Stack
- Azure, Databricks, Unity Catalog, Git
- SQL, Spark
- REST APIs, OAuth
- Delta Live Tables, Azure Event Hubs, Spark Streaming
Team & Environment
You will be part of the global Cloud Data Platform team, working in a creative and international environment motivated by curiosity and the quest for excellence.
Work Mode
This position is based on-site in Milan, Italy.
Prada Group promotes an inclusive work environment, ensuring equal opportunities for all candidates, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or other personal characteristics.
