Data Engineer

Ocado Retail Ltd; Hatfield; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocado Retail Ltd is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our Data Management team. This role involves building and maintaining data warehouses, integrating new data sources, and collaborating with various stakeholders while ensuring the highest quality of data management practices. You will work in a hybrid model, leveraging your experience with cloud data engineering and tools like SQL and Python. Offering great benefits including health insurance, hybrid working, and an annual bonus scheme, this position is an opportunity to grow your career in the UK's largest online retailer.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Digital GP appointments

Discounted gym memberships

Annual bonus scheme

Free breakfast daily in the office

26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud data engineering, preferably with Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficient with SQL and Python.
• Experience working with cloud data orchestration tools like Google Cloud Composer or Apache Airflow.
• Experience working with grocery retail or e-commerce data.
• Experience working with change management and CI/CD tools like GitLab.
• Evidence of improving efficiency in a data organization with effective automation.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the Data Management team to build and maintain our data warehouse.
• Build ELT pipelines, sourcing data from multiple systems and propagating results into data warehouse and marts.
• Monitor, manage, and resolve operational and quality issues within the data warehouse and marts.
• Contribute to the development of standards and processes to improve team efficiency or work quality.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data Engineering

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud data orchestration

CI/CD tools

Agile methodologies

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Data Engineer
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Hatfield (Hybrid working - 3 days in the office)
Working hours per week: 40 hours
Level: Associate
Application closing date: Thursday 31st July 2025

About us
Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivaled 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 . 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 , our same-day grocery delivery service.

About the team and the role
The Data & Insights department ensures that we keep accurate data at the heart of all of Ocado Retail’s decision making. As a Data Engineer your skills will be essential in building and maintaining the foundations of our data solution; bringing in large quantities of data from a variety of sources, and ensuring it’s clearly structured and documented. The data warehouse you would help manage would then be used by our Reporting team to deliver business intelligence to a wide range of stakeholders, and our Insights and Data Science teams to experiment and improve our proposition.
This Data Engineer role sits within a distributed Data Management team (offshore and onshore) of ~20. You will work through a backlog of developments to evolve our data warehouse. This includes integrating new data sources, developing data marts, analysing and resolving data quality issues and evolving our framework and practices to improve our delivery or development efficiency.
What you’ll do

Work as part of the Data Management team to build and maintain our data warehouse. Work with data users around the business to understand new requirements or issues with existing assets.Build ELT pipelines, sourcing data from multiple systems and propagating results into data warehouse and marts.Monitor, manage and resolve operational and quality issues within the data warehouse and marts.Manage security and information confidentiality.Peer QA and test deliverables.Support deployment and validation.

Adhere to agreed standards and processes to ensure our work output is consistent, compliant and of high quality.

Contribute to development of standards and processes to take advantage of rapidly evolving technologies, to improve team efficiency or work quality (e.g. with AI assistance).

Collaborate with technical teams to integrate data scientists' models and business logic into production systems

Who you are

Experience with cloud data engineering, preferably with Google Cloud Platform

Proficient with SQL and Python

Experience working with cloud data orchestration tools e.g. Google Cloud Composer/Apache Airflow

Experience working with grocery retail/e-commerce data

Experience working with change management and CI/CD tools e.g. GitLab

Evidence of improving efficiency in a data organisation with effective automation

Experience working with Agile or other responsive application development methods

Able to self-direct and take on broad projects from end-to-end

Comfortable interacting with a wide range of stakeholders and data consumers

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. Here’s a taste of what we offer:
Health & Wellbeing: Private medical insurance with 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 everyday in the office, electric vehicle leasing scheme and free shuttle bus from Hatfield station to the office.
Never miss the moments that matter: Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays , options to buy 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.