Engineering Squad Lead (Cloud Data Platform)

About the Position

Engineering Squad Lead (Cloud Data Platform)

(Hybrid/Kraków – 1 day per week in the office)

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 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.

Responsibilities

• Act as the line manager for engineers within the squad, planning and orchestrating the delivery of work, building a cohesive team, and ensuring successful customer, platform, and engineering outcomes in collaboration with Product Owners and technical leaders.

• Drive continuous improvement across the squad by increasing its impact, effectiveness, and efficiency through clear ways of working, strong collaboration, knowledge sharing, and alignment with Chapter tooling and engineering standards.

• Inspire, coach, mentor, and provide regular feedback to team members, holding regular 1-2-1s, supporting wellbeing and engagement, and guiding engineers in their development plans and career progression.

• Lead performance management by supporting goal setting and objectives, conducting clear, fair, and constructive performance conversations, and ensuring expectations are understood while helping engineers develop and grow.

• Leverage engineering and delivery experience to communicate a clear vision, shape the squad's impact, develop leadership capability, and create the conditions for the team to succeed.

• Support incident and operational management for squad-owned services, ensuring the platform remains reliable, secure, supportable, and continuously improved through strong ownership, governance, and learning from operational events.

• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing squad culture that promotes engagement, belonging, teamwork, and the continuous development of individuals and the wider team.

Requirements

• Strong technical understanding of cloud data platforms and modern data engineering practices, with experience of technologies such as Databricks, DBT, SQL, Python, and data integration tooling.

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms and networking concepts, particularly on GCP, with Azure experience considered a bonus, including security, connectivity, and platform governance.

• Experience with modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, source control, Infrastructure as Code, and Agile methodologies.

• Understanding of engineering standards, operational excellence, incident management, and the delivery of reliable and scalable platform services.

• Broad understanding of the technology industry, data platform trends, emerging technologies, and their implications for retail organisations.

• Experience of shaping, motivating, and driving change within a large, complex, matrix, and fast-moving environment.

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at all levels of the organisation, with strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

• Effective and pragmatic problem-solving and decision-making, with the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity to identify simple and effective solutions.

• Talented people leader with experience in coaching, mentoring, performance management, career development, and building future technical and leadership capability.

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)

We Offer

• Competitive salary: 30,000 - 38,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dental care) 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

About the Company

At Kingfisher, being all-in means contributing fully to our ambitions, supporting one another, and helping create a culture where we succeed together.

We are open

Continuously curious. Listen to understand. Always improving.

We are brave

Aim high. Act with courage. Move with pace.

We win together

Lead with customer. Commit to deliver. Help each other win.

Testimonials

Our employees know us best. We wouldn’t be Kingfisher without them. So, we want to share what they think with you.

Development and progression is a high priority at Kingfisher, I’ve always felt well supported.

I’m proud to work for Kingfisher, I’ve had great opportunities that have enabled me to contribute to an exciting forward-thinking company.

Application Process

What to expect from our application process...

1. Step 1: Application

   Send in your application via our Kingfisher Careers website.

2. Step 2: Review

   A member of the Talent Acquisition team will then review your application and let you know if you have progressed to the next stage of the process.

3. Step 3: Interview 1

   You’ll then have a telephone interview/one to one conversation with a recruiter.

4. Step 4: Interview 2

   As you progress, you’ll be invited to attend a face to face or virtual interview.

5. Step 5: Feedback

   Your recruiter will be in contact with feedback and, if successful, the details of your job offer!

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