Star Pubs, part of HEINEKEN UK, is looking for a Technology Specialist – Azure to join the Connected Brewery Data Platform product team. In this Data Engineer role, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and operating real-time and batch data flows, ensuring a reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient platform that supports multiple analytics use cases.
What You'll Do
- Build and operate ingestion and transformation pipelines using Azure services.
- Automate deployments, monitoring, and alerting using Azure DevOps.
- Collaborate with solution architects to ensure alignment with Heineken’s standards for quality, architecture, compliance, and security.
- Take ownership of issues from diagnosis to resolution, driving continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For
- A solid background in Azure event-driven services, including Event Hubs, Event Grid, Functions, and Logic Apps.
- Hands-on experience with data lakes and pipelines using Databricks, ADF, and Synapse.
- Skills in organizing, optimizing, and securing data in Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2).
- Knowledge of governance frameworks and tools like Unity Catalog, RLS, data contracts, and observability tools.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) and integration with analytics layers such as PowerBI.
- Experience with structured streaming or delta live/Lakeflows.
- Experience building ingestion from external REST APIs at scale.
- SQL proficiency in designing procedures, views, optimizations, and building models.
- Strong problem ownership, analytical judgement, and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset.
- Ability to collaborate across cultures and communicate technical concepts effectively.
- Excellent English language skills.
Technical Stack
- Event-Driven Services: Azure Event Hubs, Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, Logic Apps
- Data & Pipelines: Databricks, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Synapse
- Storage & Governance: Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2), Unity Catalog
- Analytics & DevOps: PowerBI, Azure DevOps
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Connected Brewery Data Platform product team within the Digital & Technology Team (D&T) of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. Our culture is dynamic and innovative, committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery, where you will have a direct impact on building the company's future.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in Kraków.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
