Data Engineer

Ferrero India is looking to fill the full-time position of a Data Engineer reporting to the central Data & AI team. This position covers all countries and categories in which Ferrero operates.

The Data Engineer, which is an emerging role in Ferrero’s Data & AI team, will play a pivotal role in operationalizing the most critical data and AI initiatives for Ferrero’s digital transformation objectives. The bulk of the Data Engineer’s work will be in creating new data pipelines for Media and Digital campaigns, eCommerce, Syndicated and other third-party data sets data related to our brands globally.

Additional support managing existing pipelines on our data lake will also be expected. The Data Engineer will be measured on their ability to effectively build, optimize and manage multiple pipelines with little supervision.

Data Engineers collaborate with Data Analysts, domain experts, and Data Scientists to develop analytics-ready data sets for modelling.

• Build new data pipelines: The Group is implementing new platforms to collect marketing campaigns, global syndicated, eCommerce and Open Innovation R&D data and the Data Engineer will be part of those project teams to understand the full collection cycle. They will then take over responsibility - together with IT partners - to build and manage the pipelines and bring the data into Ferrero IT architecture for modelling and reporting. An important part of any new data pipeline will be to automate data quality and business logic implementation and verification. Alignment with Group masterdata and/or domain data governance will also be required, where relevant.
• Manage existing data pipelines and databases: Working in Group tools to manage existing pipelines and databases on retail panel (“sellout”) and consumer surveys. Perform data extractions and / or visualizations as needed by stakeholders.
• Support data governance initiatives: The Data Engineer will be responsible for supporting projects related to the standardization of data.

Education & Experience:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Data Management, Information Systems, Information Science or a related quantitative field.

• Two to five years of work experience relevant to data engineering responsibilities and tasks; preferably within a data science team or on modelling projects.

• Experience working in cross-functional teams and cross-cultural teams.

Required IT Skills:

• Strong experience with ETL tools (Microsoft Fabric, Fabric Data Engineering, Databricks, Analysis Services); SQL database design / architecture / management; and data catalog technology (Purview + Databricks Unity Catalog).
• Proficiency in Python and Spark for ETL pipelines.
• Knowledge of Advanced Analytics techniques; MLOps, Python would be a plus.
• Familiarity with AI Platforms (MS AI Foundry), big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, etc), cloud computing platforms (MS Azure) and Git code versioning through Azure DevOps.
• Understanding data security and compliance.

Personal Skills:

• Energy, good judgment, proactivity, a sense of urgency and demonstrated commitment to high standards of ethics, regulatory compliance, service and business integrity;riosity,
• Curiosity, problem solving and genuine interest in data, technology and the FMCG industry;
• Fluent in English;
• Other languages and international experience a plus.

Careers with caring built in - discover our benefits here.

Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
Find out more here.