Software Tech Lead - Data & AI

Our Engineering team plays a central role in shaping these digital experiences, our e-commerce and digital platforms are central to creating innovative, customer-centric experiences. As we grow, we are looking for talented, curious individuals to join us, bring their unique perspectives, and help reimagine our digital platforms to new heights. This is a hybrid role working from home and our offices in either London or Leicester. A bit about the role We’re looking for a Tech Lead to help evolve Selfridges’ Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), the foundation that powers insights, personalisation, and data-driven decision-making across the business. In this role, you’ll be a leader in shaping the technical direction for our Snowflake-based data ecosystem while supporting the Architecture function. You’ll work across Python, AWS, and Salesforce Data Cloud, helping to design, build, and optimise the pipelines and integrations that connect our digital, store, and enterprise systems. Alongside your technical delivery, you’ll mentor and line manage engineers, helping them grow their skills and ensuring best practices are embedded across the team. You’ll collaborate closely with architects, analysts, and product teams to deliver secure, performant, and scalable data solutions that enable world-class experiences for our customers. Key Responsibilities * Lead and contribute to defining the technical direction and standards of the Enterprise Data Platform in collaboration with architecture and engineering leads* Support the Architecture function in designing scalable data models and integration patterns* Lead by example through hands-on design and development of data pipelines in Python, SQL, and AWS services (Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, S3)* Help evolve and maintain the Snowflake environment, focusing on optimisation, governance, and performance* Collaborate on integrations between Snowflake, Salesforce, and enterprise systems, including future Salesforce Data Cloud enablement* Partner with Power BI and analytics teams to ensure data reliability and accessibility for dashboards, insights, and reporting* Drive a strong focus on data quality, reusability, and performance across all ingestion and transformation layers* Line manage and mentor a team of data engineers, conducting regular 1:1s, supporting development plans, and fostering a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture* Collaborate across squads and domains to align data platform delivery with Selfridges’ wider digital and customer experience strategies- Work with DevOps and Platform Engineering to enhance CI/CD, observability, and automation practices for data workloads- Experienced data engineer or technical lead, ideally with previous line management or mentorship experience- Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake and AWS data services (Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, S3, SNS/SQS)- Experience integrating with Salesforce (CRM, APIs, or Data Cloud)- Knowledge of CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK), and modern observability tooling- Experience with dbt, Airflow, or Dagster- Familiarity with event-driven architectures (EventBridge, Kafka, SNS/SQS)- Experience working with or implementing Salesforce Data Cloud integrations- Familiarity with Snowflake Cortex, AWS Bedrock, or other cloud-native AI/ML services for data enrichment and automation| Salary | Competitive plus benefits || Location | London, United Kingdom | #J-18808-Ljbffr