Sainsburys Tech - Data Engineer
You’ll be part of one of our Engineering squads working on Ad-tech, interpreting and following architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved technology and solutions. With your technical craft, curiosity and experimentation, you’ll use judgement to apply specific techniques to deliver focused outcomes that support our customers.
We use a variety of tech here and you need to be willing to pick up new tools and techniques. We’d also like you to be yourself - analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You’ll constantly strive to improve the way things are done in your team, contributing as a progressive member of the engineering community.
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer confident in investigating, ingesting and exploiting large datasets with core skills in Python, Pyspark, EMR, AWS, SQL, CI/CD. At Sainsburys Tech, within the Media Agency, we’re unlocking petabytes of untapped potential. We have thousands of shops and millions of customers creating billions of transactions per year. We’re on a mission to use this data better than anyone else.
What to expect as a Data Engineer:
Work with various data squads at Sainsbury’s to ensure the right data is available for teams to build fantastic products. The aim of our products is to increase efficiency, speed of data ingestion into our reporting platform, data quality and ensure data security and compliance We are product focused and and are looking for engineers interested in data engineering and building brilliant data products from start to finish Writing code, we love writing beautiful code Big on automation including deployments and testing (CICD) Building out Monitoring and Alerting tools for live applications Working as a team during collaborative design hubs Sometimes going down a rabbit hole while exploring new data Jumping on a huddle with the team to discuss a tricky problem Pair programming to diagnose an elusive bug Jumping on a Pull Request to provide a constructive brain dump Building relationships with your colleagues – mentoring them, and teaching things you’ve learned Partnering with Data Modellers, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, Architects and Product Managers to deliver world-class data products
We’d Love To Hear From You If:
You’re interested in the world of Data, and have previous experience as a Data Engineer, Backend Software Engineer or similar domain You have experience building scalable, robust, and well-tested Software products with good coding practices, You’re curious and ask questions about technologies and use initiative to figure things out You like having ownership of your work and seeing it through You’ve got a point of view but are prepared to reconsider your opinion.
Some Of Our Tech Stack
Experience with these beneficial:
Python AWS / Azure / GCP SQL Snowflake, DBT Terraform
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
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).
