Nordic fashion and home retail platform with Kafka-driven data transformation
Ellos Group operates a multi-brand Nordic e-commerce business (Ellos, Jotex, Homeroom, Elpy payment) serving millions of customers across fashion and home furnishings. The tech stack—Kafka, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, Power BI—reveals a data infrastructure in active flux: they're mid-migration from on-premises data warehouse to cloud while building real-time and batch pipelines in parallel. Hiring momentum (7 roles in 30 days, velocity accelerating) concentrates in data and marketing, signaling an organization scaling analytics and assortment optimization to drive profitability.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Product
Ellos Group is a leading Nordic shopping destination for fashion and home furnishings, with operations across all Nordic countries and selected European markets. The portfolio spans three primary online stores (Ellos, Jotex, Homeroom) plus Elpy, a payment brand. The company targets mid-life women and their families with product offerings focused on sustainability and customer-centric design. With approximately 500 employees and annual sales around SEK 3.5 billion, Ellos Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Borås, Sweden.
Kafka, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, Power BI, Tableau, Bloomreach, PLM, Google Analytics, and Microsoft Office suite. The stack emphasizes cloud data infrastructure and business intelligence tooling.
Yes. Active projects include migration from on-premises data warehouse to Azure/Microsoft Fabric, with parallel work on real-time and batch data pipelines. This is listed as a key pain point.
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