Data Engineer

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Permanent Hatfield (Hybrid working – 3 days in the office)

Working hours per week: 40 hours

Application closing date: Friday 6th May 2025

About Us

Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivalled service, and reassuringly good value. We’re Ocado Retail, a market-leading, joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S and the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket ocado.com. Not only is Ocado.com the only place to shop a full range of M&S food online, but it’s also the home to the widest online supermarket range in the UK and champion of small, independent brands. We’re also the brains behind Zoom by Ocado, our same-day grocery delivery service.

About The Team And The Role

At Ocado Retail we are delivering a Data Transformation programme to ensure data is at the heart of all key decisions. Our Data Engineering team are at the heart of this transformation and you will use your extensive Data Engineering skills, Google Cloud Platform experience and grocery retail data knowledge to deliver quality data solutions to ensure business users can liberate value from Ocado Retail data assets.

This Data Engineer role is part of a data management and operations team of 25. The data engineer will work through a backlog of developments to evolve the Enterprise Data warehouse; integrating new data sources, developing datamarts to drive analytic efficiency, analysing and resolving issues and evolving engineering working practices to improve delivery efficiency.

What You’ll Do

• Work as part of a distributed Data Engineering team (Onshore/Offshore) to build and maintain our Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Marts ETL (extract, transform, load); sourcing data from multiple systems and propagating data warehouse/marts.
• Manage, monitor and resolve operational issues within the Data Warehouse and data Marts.
• Manage security and information confidentiality.
• Manage, monitor, assess and resolve data quality issues.
• Peer QA and Test deliverables.
• Deployment support and validations.
• Evolve the data platform and associated data assets to liberate value from data.
• Integrate new data into the data platform ensuring consistency in design standards and regulations.
• Follow agreed standards and processes to ensure the value of data initiatives can be realized in a compliant and controlled manner, ensuring the quality and consistency of the data we work with while protecting our customers' privacy.
• Support the Enterprise Data Governance program where required (data quality investigation/adherence to standards etc).
• Maintain the enterprise data model in line with data engineering deliverables.
• Drive Data quality improvement within the Ocado Retail Data Asset.
• Work with Data Science colleagues to productionise models.
• Identify opportunities for increasing efficiency through automation, adoption and learning of new tools and techniques.

Who You Are

• Cloud Data Engineering experience within Google Cloud Platform.
• Evidenced proficiency in SQL, Python, AppScript.
• Experience with Cloud Data Orchestration tooling i.e. Google Cloud Composer.
• Experience working with Grocery Retail / Ecommerce data.
• Experience managing the promotion of data pipelines into production state (e.g. Gitlab).
• Evidence of driving efficiency in data organisations through effective automation strategies.
• Experience working with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Ability to self-direct and take on broad projects from beginning to end.
• Experience leading Data projects and supporting the development of junior engineers.
• Knowledge of data security and privacy regulations and practices.

What’s In It For You

By joining Ocado Retail you’ll have the chance to experience life at the world’s largest online retailer, work with an amazing bunch of people who challenge what’s possible each day, and grow your skills and career in online retail. If that’s not enough to tempt you, you’ll also get access to loads of great benefits to sweeten the deal.

Health & Wellbeing: Private medical insurance with the option to add your family, Digital GP appointments, market-leading family policies, mental health support, discounted gym memberships, dental insurance, and more.

Spend & Save: Annual bonus scheme split between personal and business objectives, recognition with reward platform, up to 7% matched pension contributions, 15% Ocado discount, 20% M&S discount, free breakfast every day in the office, electric vehicle leasing scheme and free shuttle bus from Hatfield station to the office.

Never miss the moments that matter: Blended/Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays, options to buy an extra holiday, 2 weeks work from anywhere, and lifestyle break opportunities.

Our Hiring Process

Lucky for us, we get loads of great applications and we really appreciate that so many people put the time and effort in to apply. To recognise that, we treat all applications respectfully and fairly. So, if yours stands out, you’ll follow our standard hiring process – one of our Talent Partners will talk you through this in an initial call.

Everyone’s welcome

We’re an equal opportunities employer. That means that we make sure all potential colleagues are treated fairly and equally. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form.