Data Engineer II

Global Fashion Group (GFG) is the leading fashion and lifestyle destination in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Australia New Zealand. From our people to our customers and partners, we exist to empower everyone to express their true selves through fashion. Our three ecommerce platforms: Dafiti (LATAM), ZALORA (SEA) and THE ICONIC (ANZ) connect an assortment of international, local and own brands to a market of 800 million consumers from diverse cultures and lifestyles. GFG’s platforms provide seamless and inspiring customer experiences from discovery to delivery, powered by art & science that is infused with unparalleled local knowledge. Our vision is to be the #1 fashion & lifestyle destination in LATAM, SEA and ANZ, and we are committed to doing this responsibly by being people and planet positive across everything we do.

THE TEAM

Our vision to bring affordable and sustainable fashion to customers in our markets is powered by technology and data. The GFG Data Team is an integral part of GFG and is essential to enabling a data-driven decision-making culture. 

SCOPE OF ROLE

As the Data Engineer II in the Data team, you will be working on all aspects of Data, from Platform and Infra build out to pipeline engineering and writing tooling/services for augmenting and fronting the core platform. You will be responsible for building and maintaining the state-of-the-art data Life Cycle management platform, including acquisition, storage, processing and consumption channels. The team works closely with Data Scientists, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and business stakeholders across the GFG in understanding and tailoring the offerings to their needs.

HOW YOU’LL SUCCEED

• Build and manage the data asset using some of the most scalable and resilient open source big data technologies like Airflow, Spark, Kafka, etc
• Build and manage a highly scalable, efficient Data and ML Infrastructure by adopting microservices driven design and architecture with proper DevOps principles and practices
• Design and deliver the next-gen data lifecycle management suite of tools/frameworks, including ingestion and consumption on the top of the data lake to support real-time as well as batch use cases
• Help the team in integrating various data sources across GFGs group vertical
• Build and expose metadata catalog for the Data Lake for easy exploration, profiling as well as lineage requirements

WHAT IT TAKES

• Relevant experience in developing scalable, secured, fault tolerant, resilient & mission-critical Big Data platforms.
• Able to maintain and monitor the ecosystem with high availability.
• Must have sound understanding for all Big Data components & Administration Fundamentals. Hands-on in building a complete data platform using various open source technologies.
• Must have good fundamental hands-on knowledge of Linux and building big data stack on top of AWS/GCP using Kubernetes.
• Nice to have: understanding of big data and related technologies like HDFS, Spark, Presto, Airflow, Kafka, Apache Atlas etc.
• Nice to have: knowledge of Complex Event Processing systems like Spark Streaming, Kafka, Apache Flink, Beam etc.
• Able to drive devops best practices like CI/CD, containerization, blue-green deployments, secrets management etc in the Data ecosystem.
• Able to develop an agile platform with auto scale capability up & down as well vertically and horizontally.
• Able to develop an observability and monitoring ecosystem for all the components in use in the data ecosystem.
• Proficiency in at least one of the programming languages Java, Scala, Python or Go.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• The unique opportunity to have a serious impact on a growing organisation
• A dynamic working environment shaping the face of fashion e-commerce in growth markets
• Work closely with a global talent pool with international mindset 
• #1 IT company to work for in Vietnam in 2021
• Best practice scaled agile engineering
• Amazing office and great culture! Massage chairs, table tennis, video game room, quarterly team events, yearly company trip, end of the year party
• Hybrid working environment and work from home set up allowance
• Clear career progression plan and support
• English classes
• Macbook or laptop when you start
• Social insurance, medical insurance & AON insurance
• 13th month salary
• 15 days of annual leave, 30 days of sick leave/mental health, 1 day of occasion leave
• Support for Gym membership
• VND 60,000,000 referral reward for successfully referring someone to GFG

Apply today and join GFG in this exciting role shaping the face of fashion e-commerce!

Global Fashion Group embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements