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.