The big question: why on earth should a Tech professional like you work for a 150-year-old retail chain? Because we’re on a journey. Changing the way we operate.  Learning to think nimble. Giving our teams the time and freedom they need to push boundaries. To create amazing systems and technologies. To give our colleagues and our customers even more incredible experiences.

There are thousands of experts to talk to and learn from. We’ve got data from billions of transactions for our teams to play with. Things get built here. They get made here. They hit customers and colleagues quickly. Welcome to the home of Sainsbury's Tech.

More about the role:

We use 30 billion transaction lines combined with information about customers and their online activity, products, promotions to build this insight and together with business stakeholders we can drive the evolution of the models that are built on this data to provide the most useful and valuable understanding of customer behaviour.

In order to accomplish that mission we are looking for smart developers looking to learn new things, happy to be involved in a challenging project and a nice environment to collaborate and develop their career. We are looking to hire a Data Engineer at our Holborn HQ where you will be supported by your Sainsbury’s Tech colleagues and community.

You will be working in one of our autonomous Scrum teams structuring, analysing and transforming Big Data for a Customer Analytics Commercial application delivering value to the business by monetising Sainsbury's transactional data. You will be part of wider teams building applications that surface and explore our Nectar data across all Sainsbury’s Channels.

What we’re looking for:

Significant experience querying volume data – we have billions of rows (currently SQL / Snowflake)

Experience designing and building operational databases in cloud environment (currently Postgres)

Knowledge of Spark and ability to write data pipelines in one of Python / Java / Scala

Experience of retail / customer analytics or similar field

Enthusiastic about building and automating a maintainable product and supporting it

Desire to work across the product and see the impact of the data from start to finish

Ability to communicate with product owners and architects within the team and the wider business

Useful additional skills

Experience of building APIs to interact with databases / user interfaces

Experience of Infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

In return you’ll get:

Colleague discount across the multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
Holiday allowance
Bonus scheme
Pension plan
Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Flexible working and job share conversations are encouraged. Across our multi-brands, we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture. If you’re reading this, even if you’re not 100% sure you’re there with your experience, we’d still love to hear from you. If you’d like to find out more head to Sainsbury's Tech