About The Team
The Centric Pricing and Inventory Business Unit is a fast-growing, fast-paced team, with many exciting opportunities for the entrepreneurial-spirited individual who wants to be a part of the most innovative AI-based in-season pricing & inventory solutions in the industry. This team requires a real sense of initiative and autonomy to deal with everyday situations. Centric is aggressively penetrating the fashion/apparel, beauty, and home markets with solutions in Market Intelligence & Trends, and Price & Inventory optimization automation. The ability to deal with customers and handle customer situations will be key.
Responsibilities
- Continuous assuring of a high data quality by checking and validating it together with customer success team and data science/ technical consultant
- Responsible for transforming (normalizing and standardizing) and storing incoming and outgoing data.
- Interfering with data transmission technologies such as Apache Kafka.
- work closely with product & tech team on improving data model and data interface structure
- Use of Python, Spark and SQL to implement complex ETL/ELT processes.
- Interfacing with customers and external partners to align on data formats and transmission schedules.
- Ensure all customer specific time & effort is being tracked accurately
- Ensure stable data flow incoming and outgoing
What You Bring
- You have a university or college degree in (business) computer science, data science/engineering, mathematics or a comparable qualification.
- Hands-on experience with the Big Data ecosystem (Spark, Hive/Impala, HBase, Yarn) and the data lake paradigm.
- Experience with stacks based on AWS/Azure/GCP and Java/Scala/Python.
- Experience with microservice architectures and data streaming systems such as Kafka.
- Hands-on experience in database engineering with a focus on database architecture, production automation, monitoring systems, and operations.
- You can think of data as a graph and know how to use Avro, Protobuf or JSON schema.
- Hands-on experience in working practices of cross-functional teams.
- Fluency in German and English.
- Experience in retail application development is a plus.
Top Skills
What We Do
Centric Software® is the innovator behind the #1 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, that is blazing the trail for brands, manufacturers and retailers across all segments of the consumer goods industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software has shattered the mold to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to satisfy the needs of every player in the market, large and small, and supports their mission to develop high-quality, sustainable products that are on time and on trend.
- Centric PLM delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric PLM streamlines the product development process from concept to retail.
- Centric Planning provides best-in-class data and visually driven financial, merchandise and assortment planning as well as store and vendor forecasting to maximize margins and for seamless and fast, pre and in-season execution.
- Centric Visual Boards improves collaboration and decision-making of merchandising and buying teams through intuitive digital boards, driving innovation and decreasing time to market.
All Centric solutions are market-driven, ensuring they meet the needs of customers. These innovations include the first ever PLM mobile apps, 3D CAD connectors, sustainability integrations, and more. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rates in the industry and proudly maintains a 99% customer retention rate due to its seamless implementation methodology which ensures that 100% of its customers go live. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team to service the best customers.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). For more information, please visit www.centricsoftware.com.
