Lead Data Engineer

Location: Brand: RS Group Function: Digital & Technology Work Location: Hybrid Location : This is a remote role, offering the flexibility to work virtually from anywhere within Poland. Contract Type : full-time (contract of employment) The Opportunity As a Lead Data Engineer , you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing RS’s Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), built on Snowflake. Combining technical expertise, people leadership, and delivery ownership, you will lead the design, development, and operation of scalable, reliable, and high-performing data products and pipelines that power data-driven decision-making across our global organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to translate data architecture strategy into impactful solutions, ensuring trusted, timely, and accessible data is available to support analytics, innovation, and business growth. Working at the heart of our Group Data function within IS&T, you will lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers, champion engineering best practices, and drive the delivery of high-quality data solutions aligned with enterprise priorities. With visibility across the entire business, you will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, helping to unlock the value of data and accelerate RS’s transformation into a truly data-driven organisation. What You Will Be Doing Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable data pipelines and products on the Enterprise Data Platform. Define and champion engineering standards, best practices, and modern data engineering methodologies. Collaborate with architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality data solutions. Ensure data platforms and pipelines are reliable, secure, performant, and cost-effective. Provide hands-on technical leadership through solution design, coding, and peer reviews. Act as the senior escalation point for complex data engineering and platform challenges. Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. Drive automation, AI-enabled engineering practices, and operational efficiencies across the data ecosystem. Support the transition of innovative data use cases into scalable, production-ready solutions. Contribute to major data platform transformation and migration initiatives across the organisation. What You’ll Bring Experience in a Senior or Lead Data Engineering role, delivering scalable data solutions in production environments. Strong expertise in Snowflake or a similar cloud data platform. Hands-on experience with modern data engineering tools such as dbt, Dagster, Airbyte, or equivalent. Solid understanding of ELT/ETL, data modelling, SQL, and pipeline orchestration. Experience implementing data quality, testing, monitoring, and performance optimisation practices. Proven ability to lead, mentor, and support Data Engineers while providing hands-on technical leadership. Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills. A collaborative, delivery-focused mindset with a passion for high-quality data solutions. Experience with SAP S/4HANA, AI-enabled engineering, or global enterprise-scale data environments would be advantageous. We Are RS At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world. As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive. What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact. Join us and help make amazing happen. Rewards Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company. Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but in Poland include: Financial – pension scheme, annual bonus Wellbeing – private medical care (Allianz), subsidy for Multisport card, holiday allowance Lifestyle – lunch card, subsidy for learning English language, employee referral scheme Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values Ready to Make Amazing Happen? Join over 8,500 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are – it all starts here. Apply now and make RS a part of your journey. #LI-REMOTE #LI-BK1