Digital Marketing Data Engineer

Digital Marketing Data Engineer 

Why join us

By joining Sainsbury's as a Digital Marketing Executive specialising in Technology and Cloud Data, you will become an integral part of a forward-thinking organisation dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive marketing effectiveness and business growth with a customer-first approach. You'll have the opportunity to work on developing and maintaining cloud-based data solutions, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to deliver complex communications programmes through automated, data-driven pipelines. Our inclusive and dynamic environment encourages proactive thinking, continuous learning, and impactful contributions, allowing you to make a difference in the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing through innovative solutions and campaigns that shape the future of retail marketing.

What you'll do

As a Digital Marketing Executive specialising in Technology and Cloud Data at Sainsbury's, your role will revolve around spearheading the development and maintenance of cloud-based data solutions, particularly focusing on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Leveraging cutting-edge technologies, you will be responsible for crafting scalable data pipelines and workflows using JSON and Python to ensure seamless data transfer across Marketing and Media platforms, cloud data warehouses, and BI reporting tools. Working alongside internal Product and Engineering teams, as well as external agency resources, you will collaborate to deliver complex communications programmes through automated, data-driven processes. Building strong relationships across the organisation and managing multiple stakeholders will be essential, along with your ability to translate intricate technical concepts and requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Who you are

As a Digital Marketing Executive specialising in Technology and Cloud Data for Sainsbury's, you are a highly skilled professional with a deep understanding of building and managing cloud-based data pipelines to drive successful business outcomes for large organisations. Your expertise in digital media and marketing platforms, such as Snowflake, Azure, AWS, GCP, GMP, Adobe, and Tealium, enables you to develop scalable data solutions with a customer-centric focus. With a strong technical background and the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external teams, you excel in translating complex requirements into actionable strategies, influencing senior stakeholders, and implementing data-driven marketing technologies to enhance marketing effectiveness and deliver exceptional customer-first communications.

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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).