Data Architect - Microservice - Kafka - Cloud

hackajob; London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Data Architect, where you will design and build advanced data solutions using cutting-edge technology. This hybrid role allows you to work closely with cross-functional teams, tackling real-world challenges and making a significant impact on millions of customers. Enjoy a supportive culture that fosters innovation and personal ownership, along with competitive benefits including discounts, pension schemes, and performance-related bonuses. This is an exciting opportunity to excel in your career while contributing to an inclusive and dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Colleague discount

Pensions scheme

Life cover

Performance-related bonus

Annual holiday allowance

Health cash plans

Employee assistance programme

Flexible working

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Experience with Microservice architecture and designing data solutions.
• Strong understanding of Apache Kafka and Cloud Infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build advanced data solutions and models.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape innovative products.

Skills

Microservice architecture

Apache Kafka

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

Data Modelling

Stream processing frameworks

Schema Management

Excellent communication

Self-Starter

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Data Architect - Microservice - Kafka - Cloud

Data Architect - Microservice - Kafka - Cloud

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hackajob is collaborating with Sainsbury's DTD to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

Why join us

Joining our team at Sainsbury's means becoming part of a multi-channel, multi-brand business that serves millions of customers daily, providing a vast and diverse dataset that is truly exciting. With over 1.2 billion transactions each year, we have the opportunity to harness this data and build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology, such as our award-winning Smartshop app, to deliver an exceptional shopping experience for our customers. As a Data Architect, you will play a crucial role in designing and building advanced data solutions and models, working closely with cross-functional teams to shape innovative products and services. In our inclusive and agile environment, you will have the freedom to explore, experiment, and tackle real-world challenges, witnessing the impact of your creations on millions of people across the UK. Additionally, you will benefit from a supportive culture that fosters innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and personal ownership. Together, we strive to create a work-life balance that enables you to excel in your professional and personal aspirations.

Publication Service DA Tech Skills

• Designing systems that use Microservice style architecture.
• Schema Management (Confluent Schema Registry or similar)
• Understanding of Apache Kafka Concepts (broker, producer, consumer, etc)
• Experience designing Stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Apache Spark, etc)
• Data Modelling (aligned with Kafka topic design)
• Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• SAP Experience (Optional)
  
  

Soft Skills

• Excellent communicator
• Self-Starter
• Autonomy
• Cross-functional collaboration
  
  

Why join us

Joining our team at Sainsbury's means becoming part of a multi-channel, multi-brand business that serves millions of customers daily, providing a vast and diverse dataset that is truly exciting. With over 1.2 billion transactions each year, we have the opportunity to harness this data and build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology, such as our award-winning Smartshop app, to deliver an exceptional shopping experience for our customers. As a Data Architect, you will play a crucial role in designing and building advanced data solutions and models, working closely with cross-functional teams to shape innovative products and services. In our inclusive and agile environment, you will have the freedom to explore, experiment, and tackle real-world challenges, witnessing the impact of your creations on millions of people across the UK. Additionally, you will benefit from a supportive culture that fosters innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and personal ownership. Together, we strive to create a work-life balance that enables you to excel in your professional and personal aspirations.

This role is a hybrid position where you will likely be coming into the office about once a week, you are able to come in to any of our offices (London, Coventry or Manchester)

Benefits

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 save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's 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, salary 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.

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• Seniority level

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  Software Development

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