Luisa Via Roma is a leading global luxury goods e-commerce with an online presence for over 20 years, serving upwards of 1 million users from more than 200 countries.
Our team is also international, including over 300 people from 20 different countries.

As a company, we constantly look to the future to offer our clients innovation through our services, platforms, website and app. We also aim to give back to the community and the planet by supporting charities and environmental causes. Through LVRSustainable – our section dedicated to sustainability– we offer conscious fashion and promote special collaborations with non-profits, organizations, and brands to benefit social and low impact initiatives.

Lead Data Engineer

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a modern data platform, ensuring data governance and ultimately enabling advanced analytics capabilities and data science models.
We are seeking a forward-thinking individual who possesses a clear understanding of the structure and development of a data engineering team and that is able to split its time between team management and single contribution.
We are looking for a candidate who continuously updates their knowledge base with the evolving tools and technologies within this domain, and who exhibits a comprehensive understanding of structuring and fostering a data engineering team.

If you think you fit in the role, we’d like to meet you! 

Requirements:
- 6+ years professional experience as Data Engineer
- 1+ years managing Data Engineers
- Experience with ETL tools, such as Talend
- Hands-on experience with relational databases and cloud databases, in particular Redshift
- Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Python, Spark, Java
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills in Italian and proficiency in English language
- Experience in Data Architecture: Cloud Architecture, Data & Solution Architecture, API, Amazon Web Services
- Requirement analysis and data governance

Preferred skills & experience:
- AWS glue or dbt
- Web API integrations
- Google Cloud
- Queuing systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Customer Data Platforms (Segment)

What we offer:

📃 Full-time employment with a commercial contract
🕒 Monday to Friday work week
👍 In addition to optimal work-life balance, we offer job rotation, conventions and employee discounts
📍 Florence or Milan

What to expect next…

First and foremost, we take great care to go through each and every application we receive in order to determine if the candidate fits the profile we’re looking for. We take the time to compare and contrast all the CVs we receive in order to make a shortlist of candidates we will then invite to interview with our Recruiter.
 After this initial interview, if the candidate is an initial match, a second interview with the hiring team manager and HR team will take place, followed by final confirmation interview.