Area: GBS

Department: Enabling Functions

Direct Reporting Line: Manager GBS

Indirect/secondary reporting line: --

Subsidiary/Country: India

Location: Chennai

GSMS Grade: P1

Number of Personnel Managed: 0

Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: 0

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Global Business Services (GBS) has been created to provide globally unified services based on standardized and automated solutions across different functions and markets. This will enable us to drive operational efficiency, quality services, improved agility and better decision-making whilst reducing complexity and workload. In adidas GBS we leverage state-of-the-art technology and cultivate a human-centric and innovative mindset to continually raise the bar of the user experience.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will collect, aggregate, store, and reconcile data in support of adidas (GBS) business decisions. You will design and build data pipelines, data streams, data service APIs, data generators, and other end-user information portals and insight tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, build, and implement data solutions based on DataBricks.
• Design and build Modern Data Pipelines and Data Streams
• Develop and Maintain Data Warehouse
• Design and create ETL processes supplying Data Warehouse
• Implement effective metrics and monitoring processes.
• Preprocess of structured and unstructured data, create queries in databases.

Key Relationships:

• Operations Teams in different Hubs
• Global Operational Excellence Team
• IT Platform Engineering team
• IT Tech Consultants

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience working with Databricks and familiarity with PySpark
• Mastery of SQL (T-SQL or PL SQL preferred)
• Experience with SQL, T-SQL, and any one of the data engineering programming languages like Python, Scala, R, Java, etc
• Ability to conduct data profiling, cataloging, and mapping for technical design and construction of technical data flows
• Hands-on experience in performance tuning and optimizing code running in the Databricks environment
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills particularly those that apply to a big data environment
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in the GBS organization, experience in any of the Excellence functions (automation, continuous improvement, reporting) is preferable.
• The Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
• University degree or equivalent experience.