The Role:
While you’ll have heard our name, there’s a lot you probably don’t know about NEXT. Like how we create most of our systems ourselves – whether it’s a website, mobile app or application. What’s more, we’re growing. Fast. And it’s the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business.
Our huge warehouse estate in Yorkshire is held together by the Warehouse Tech team, the warehouses have an enormous amount of tech that allow us to receive, store, pick and pack items for our customers - handling everything from socks to sofas! The Warehouse team focuses heavily on automation which includes 40 miles of conveyor linking everything together across our sites, hundreds of storage and picking robots - a very fast moving, continuously changing part of NEXT Technology.
What You'll Take On:
As a key member of our team, you'll apply your expert knowledge of our development tools and technologies to deliver outstanding results. Your passion for the craft will shine through as you produce clean, concise, and highly efficient code. We’re working on really exciting projects with the data platform that this team manages, so we’d love for you to be a go-to member of the team in this area specifically!
We’ll look to you to be an influential voice in defining and evolving our technical standards, helping to keep us at the forefront of our industry. As a natural mentor, you will guide and support your colleagues, reviewing code to uphold our high standards for performance and quality. You'll also be instrumental in championing our departmental processes, ensuring the team is aligned while helping to shape our standards to keep them current and relevant.
What You'll Bring:
You will have proven Data Platform Engineering experience with the following:
In addition, we're looking for you to have:
You'll be doing all this from our South Elmsall office in South Yorkshire. It's a fast-paced, encouraging, and supportive environment where everyone is committed to delivering for our customers and growing their own careers. Bring your energy. Play to your strengths. Let's Take It On.
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You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
At Next we never underestimate what we can do. Bring your energy, play to your strengths and never shy away from change. Push yourself and back others. Make things happen that will be bigger and better than before.
Come and work for one of the UK’s biggest retailers. It is everything you could imagine, and so much more. We’re constantly innovating, constantly working on something new and constantly creating more and more exciting new products, which means no day is the same, and no day is dull.
Whether you take up a role in making furniture with our lively warehouse team or join our team of superhuman developers and tech engineers, you’ll be rubbing shoulders with some of the most talented people in the country, who not only work hard but play hard too.
Let's take it on.
