Lead Engineer - Data

Asda; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supermarket chain in the UK is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to provide technical leadership and ensure high-quality data solutions. This full-time role requires on-site presence three days a week in Leeds. Responsibilities include fostering a DevOps culture, leading data engineering best practices, and collaborating with various teams to deliver reliable data products. Exceptional skills in Azure tools and data architectures are essential. The position offers competitive salary and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

Company Car allowance

15% colleague discount

Free wellbeing services

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and maintaining high-quality, secure data solutions.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and architectures.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Promote autonomy and ownership across the engineering organization.
• Lead best practices in data engineering and development activities.
• Collaborate to ensure business requirements are translated into data solutions.

Skills

Data engineering

Microsoft Azure

Python

SQL

Agile methodologies

GitHub

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Overview

Lead Engineer - Data, located at Asda House, Leeds. Full time, permanent role with 37.5 hours per week. Competitive salary plus benefits. This role requires on-site presence at Asda House in Leeds three days per week.

We're looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our Data Team within the Commercial & Supply domain. As the most senior engineer working across a number of squads, you'll blend hands-on engineering with providing technical leadership and mentorship to data engineers. You will work closely with Product Managers, Visualisation Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Architects, and other stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-quality data products that drive Asda's strategic objectives. You'll champion best practices and foster continuous improvement, actively contributing within our Agile community of practice.

Responsibilities

• Foster a DevOps culture of "you build it, you run it, you own it", promoting autonomy and ownership across the engineering organisation.
• Lead best practices in data engineering, code reviews, and development activities, ensuring the highest quality standards. Contributing to the Lead Engineer & Agile communities of practice. Ensuring data quality and integrity.
• Work with structured, semi-structured and structured data with varying latencies, from batch through to real-time.
• Ensure engineering solutions comply with architectural frameworks and best practices defined by Data Architects.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Data Analysts to ensure business requirements are translated into scalable, performant data solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance data engineering capabilities.
• Balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with technical leadership to drive high-quality delivery.

About You

• Proven experience building and maintaining high-quality, secure data solutions.
• Skilled in operating scalable and high-performance applications in production environments. Prepare to be tenacious and collaborate to drive the right solutions forward.
• Have a good understanding of Microsoft Azure tooling including Azure Databricks, preferably with hands-on experience.
• Strong understanding of data modelling and architectures (e.g. data vaults, data warehousing, data lakes etc.)
• Experience with Azure based solutions such as Azure Data Factory.
• Extensive experience with languages such as Python, SQL and, preferably, PySpark.
• Version control and best practices using Github.
• Experience in working with Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring data engineers.

We welcome flexible work

We welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time hours, flexible working arrangements, or job share opportunities.

How to apply

Apply today by completing an online application. If you have any questions about the role, please email [e-mail].

Closing date

Closing Date: 27 September 2025

Benefits

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.