Job Description

Data Director In this role, the Director of Data at ZALORA will be a part of the Data Sciences Innovation Lab. This team aims at enabling and evangelizing data driven decision making, self-service analytics using cutting edge technologies and industry best practices (Agile, Design Thinking, ROI focused) in an environment of rapid growth and increasing complexity. Zalora’s commitment to be a Data First organization brings about immense opportunities for this role/team to make a game changing impact to Zalora’s customers and the fashion e-commerce world at large.

Responsibilities:

• Drive thought leadership in data management practices. Build the data vision and strategic roadmap through self-service analytics, rapid experimentation and product focused thinking

• Lead Innovation by continuously investigating and probing into the current and emerging trends in the analytics space. Influence, mentor, and guide teams within and beyond direct authority to enable higher data literacy and successful data democratization across departments.

• Deploy Analytics/AI/Machine learning applications to solve complex business problems by sharing and soliciting thoughts, ideas, feedback, and artifacts (roadmap, architecture, design, code etc.)

• Liaise between Business and Technology to ensure that business data related requirements are clearly defined, communicated and considered as part of initiative prioritization and planning

• Own the existing Data platforms and maintain the data integrity and accuracy of the numbers and data sources.

• Know Agile - Scrum project management experience/knowledge - Ability to prioritise, pushback and effectively manage a data product and sprint backlog.
  

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in incubating and delivering Data Analytics/ Science/Engineering solutions through consulting/ in-house technology roles including 4+ years of leading and managing BI/Analytics teams.

• Exhibits sound business judgment, a proven ability to influence others, strong analytical skills, and a proven track record of taking ownership, leading data-driven analyses, and influencing results

• Able to define and implement a delivery approach that uses agile best practices tailored to the project in hand. Develop and oversee the production of project deliverables including estimations, plans, risks and change management processes, traceability matrices.

• Experience in building robust scalable data pipelines using distributed processing frameworks (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Flink, Storm), integrated with asynchronous messaging systems (e.g. Apache Kafka, Kinesis, PubSub, MQ Series).

• Deep understanding of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) , No-SQL Databases (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch) and hands-on experience in implementation and performance tuning of MPP databases (e.g. Redshift, BigQuery).

• Strong programming, algorithmic, data processing skills with significant experience in producing production-ready code in Python/Scala/Java etc, engineering experience with machine learning projects like Time Series Forecasting, Classification and Optimization problems.

• Experience administering and deploying CI/CD tools (e.g. Git, Jira, Jenkins) Industrialization (e.g. Ansible, Terraform), Workflow Management (e.g. Airflow, Jenkins, Luigi) in Linux operating system environments.

• Experience designing and implementing software for Data Security, Cryptography, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), or other security tools.

• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, Superset or any standard data visualization tools.

• Knowledge of cloud services like AWS, GCP, Azure would be a huge added advantage.

• Exposure working for a respected Ecommerce, Fintech or Internet organisation is advantageous (scalable startup or unicorn desired but not a necessity) is a bonus.
  

The ZALORA Story ZALORA exists for the millions of fashion consumers in Asia seeking a shopping experience focused on their unique styles, trends and fit. As Asia’s leading online fashion destination, ZALORA was founded in 2012 and has a presence in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan. ZALORA’s localised sites offer an extensive collection of top international and local brands as well as our own in-house labels across apparel, shoes and accessories for men and women. ZALORA is part of Global Fashion Group, the world's leader in online fashion for emerging markets. ZALORA is not obligated to accept resumes from any third parties on behalf of potential candidates for any position (advertised or otherwise) by any means, unless ZALORA has executed a written agreement with such third party and has expressly requested such third party for candidate referrals. Third parties who provide unsolicited resumes of candidate(s) shall waive and forfeit all rights to claim for any placement fees or referral fees in the event that such candidate is eventually engaged or employed by ZALORA or Global Fashion Group.

Consent Disclaimer By submitting your application for this role, you consent to ZALORA collecting, using and processing through and in ZALORA’s systems all personal data included in or provided in relation to your application. The purposes for such collection, use and/or processing shall be for conducting of ZALORA’s recruitment requirements for the present role, and identifying and evaluating other roles and career opportunities within ZALORA which you might be a good fit for.