Lead Data Engineer

Job TitleLead Data Engineer
LocationAsda House
Employment TypeFull time
Contract TypePermanent
Hours Per Week37.5
Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

CategoryBusiness Intelligence
Closing Date2 March 2025

Asda’s Data team is at the cutting edge of driving transformative, data-driven decisions across the organisation. We cultivate a high-performance, innovative environment where team members are challenged to push the boundaries of technology and data science. We are developing an industry leading data platform as part of the largest retail data transformation in Europe, which we will use to address some of the most complex data challenges in the industry, developing sophisticated solutions that revolutionize our business operations and elevate customer experiences. We seek the best of the best—professionals who thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic setting and are driven to deliver ground breaking insights that propel Asda’s strategic initiatives and create lasting impact for Colleagues & Customers. 

Find your role

Are you a passionate technical engineering leader with a proven track record of enabling high performing engineering teams? We’re looking for a Lead Data Engineer, who will be a vital member of our diverse data function, where you'll not only technically lead team deliveries, but also support initiatives across the broader organisation. This role is perfect for those with a collaborative spirit and a passion for building professional networks. 
 
Joining Asda during our digital and data evolution means you're arriving at an exhilarating time. Data and analytics are the bedrock of our transformation strategy, and you'll be positioned at the epicentre of this exciting phase! 
 

In this role, you will: 

• Coach and mentor engineers to maximise their potential, promote career growth and enable innovative thinking. 
• Foster a DevOps culture of “you build it, you run it, you own it”, promoting autonomy and ownership across the engineering organisation. 
• Work with Product Managers to create, maintain and execute a roadmap for building new data products that deliver value to both colleagues & customers. 
• Evolve our existing estate to align it with current standards and practices. 
• Establish and maintain best practices for data ingestion, processing, and storage, ensuring data quality and integrity. 
• Work with structured, semi-structured and structured data with varying latencies, from batch through to real-time. 
• Contribute to the Lead Engineering Community to define and embed standards, practices and principles into everything we and our teams do. 
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance data engineering capabilities. 
• Play a key role in hiring and onboarding new team members, contributing to the growth and development of the department.  

Let's find out about you 

• Have a background in building and maintaining high quality, secure software. 
• Are experienced in operating scalable and performant applications in production. 
• Have a good understanding of Microsoft Azure tooling, preferably with hands-on experience. 
• Have worked with data platform such as Databricks. 
• Have extensive experience with Python and, preferably, PySpark. 
• Experience in working with Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean. 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical business stakeholders. 
• Have experience leading and mentoring Data Engineers. 
• You will be proactive, resilient with strong leadership skills and be an excellent team player. 

Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works.  This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective.  It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. 

You will also get an excellent benefits package including; -

•    Discretionary company bonus

•    £5,700 company car or car allowance
•    Company pension up to 7% matched
•    10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves