Health and beauty retail group unifying store and online channels
AS Watson is a Hong Kong-headquartered health and beauty retail group whose current hiring tilts heavily toward data roles, ahead of engineering and product. Its stack spans Azure with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI alongside GCP with BigQuery and Looker, plus Databricks, a multi-cloud analytics footprint consistent with stated pressure to align data and AI ambitions and fix data quality. Commerce runs on SAP Commerce Cloud with Java services.
AS Watson is a large international retailer focused on health and beauty, with specialties spanning luxury, perfumeries and cosmetics, food, electronics, wine and beverages. The group operates multiple retail brands across many markets and sells directly to consumers through both physical stores and digital channels. Its strategy centers on integrating offline and online shopping. The company is privately held, headquartered in Hong Kong, and employs over 10,001 people. Current hiring covers the United Kingdom, China and Italy.
AS Watson uses SAP Commerce Cloud, Java, TypeScript and GraphQL for commerce, Azure and GCP for cloud, Databricks, BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Looker for data, plus Dynatrace, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.
Yes. Data is AS Watson's leading hiring area, followed by engineering and product, with mostly senior and mid-level openings in the United Kingdom, China and Italy.
AS Watson is driving self-service analytics adoption, building website and app features, designing end-to-end experience architecture across app, mobile and desktop, and scaling Java/SAP CX services.
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