Chanel Data Platform Engineering Manager

About Chanel

Chanel is one of the world’s most revered luxury houses, founded by Gabrielle Chanel and distinguished by an enduring vision of elegance, freedom, and modernity. As an employer, the House brings together métiers ranging from haute couture, fashion and leather goods to fragrance, beauty, watches, and fine jewelry, offering employees the opportunity to contribute to a legacy defined by exceptional craftsmanship and creative audacity. Chanel values excellence, discretion, collaboration, and long-term development, fostering an environment where talent is nurtured and heritage is continually reinterpreted for contemporary clients. Its teams are united by a commitment to quality, innovation, and the timeless spirit of the brand.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support Microsoft Fabric/FDP data products and pipelines across ingestion, transformation, lakehouse, warehouse, and curated data layers.
• Engineer scalable Fabric data products using appropriate combinations of OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Fabric Data Factory/Data Pipelines, notebooks, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, Dataflows Gen2, shortcuts, mirroring, and medallion architecture.
• Build restartable, idempotent ingestion and transformation pipelines with schema-evolution handling, dependency management, controlled reprocessing, and robust exception handling.
• Embed automated testing, reconciliation, data-quality controls, lineage, monitoring, alerting, failure evidence, and controlled exception routing into each data product.
• Diagnose and classify failures across source data, integration, Fabric processing, orchestration, and downstream consumption layers; route remediation to the accountable team while supporting engineering quality and reliable platform delivery.
• Apply DataOps and software-engineering practices across source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment pipelines, environment configuration and promotion, access controls, rollback planning, release evidence, and separation of duties.
• Use platform monitoring and performance information to improve reliability, capacity utilization, and cost efficiency.
• Maintain accurate source-to-target mappings, transformation logic, data-quality rules, technical lineage, ownership metadata, security requirements, change history, runbooks, known limitations, and support handoff materials throughout the data-product lifecycle.
• Review partner-delivered code, testing, controls, documentation, and production-readiness evidence.
• Deliver tested, trusted curated data products for BI & Analytics and other approved consumers; collaborate on availability, lineage, performance, interfaces, and change impacts, while BI & Analytics retains responsibility for semantic models, metrics, reporting standards, and Power BI architecture.
• Contribute reusable engineering patterns and practical improvements that help EDM scale Fabric delivery without one-off pipelines or unsupported solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Microsoft Fabric implementation experience across several of the following: OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Fabric Data Factory/Data Pipelines, notebooks, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, Dataflows Gen2, shortcuts, mirroring, Git integration, and deployment pipelines.
• Experience designing medallion layers and source-to-curated data flows, including incremental ingestion, transformation, schema evolution, history management, restartability, idempotency, dependency management, performance tuning, controlled reprocessing, and recovery handling.
• Strong experience with automated unit, integration, regression, reconciliation, and deployment testing, as well as data-quality controls, operational logging, monitoring, alerting, failure classification, recovery procedures, and runbooks.
• Experience with Git-based source control, code review, CI/CD, deployment pipelines, environment configuration and promotion, secure access, release evidence, rollback planning, and disciplined release management.
• Working knowledge of Purview, lineage, metadata, security, privacy, and governance controls as applied to engineered data solutions.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation, mappings, runbooks, support procedures, and handoff evidence that other engineers can operate.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Limited travel may be required to collaborate with US and global teams.
• The role requires three days on site in New York City.

Skills

Experience

Up to 5 years of hands-on data engineering or data platform engineering experience, including production delivery on modern cloud data platforms and direct Microsoft Fabric implementation experience.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Dedicated paid time off for wellbeing, including a two-week August office closure, and a wellbeing fund; family and caregiving benefits, including parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com membership; paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and volunteer days; 401(k) and other incentives; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE virtual care, One Medical, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, a Health Savings Account, and an Employee Assistance Program; life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, Health Advocate, international business travel accident and medical coverage, and commuter transit and parking. Employees are encouraged to take annual time off to volunteer through CHANEL Community, and CHANEL matches employee donations to select charitable organizations. Career development includes onboarding support, leadership programs, group and individual coaching, and blended online and live classes through Bloom.

Culture

Chanel fosters a culture of timeless creativity, exacting craftsmanship, and quiet excellence, where employees are encouraged to uphold the house’s heritage while contributing to its continued innovation. The workplace environment is refined, collaborative, and deeply committed to quality, offering professionals the opportunity to grow within a globally respected maison that values discretion, artistry, and long-term vision.

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