Senior Data Engineer

MARKS&SPENCER; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in London is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to build and maintain reliable data solutions in the cloud. You will contribute to complex tasks, support fellow engineers, and design scalable data pipelines. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with cloud data technologies, ETL, and programming in SQL, Python, and Spark. This role offers flexible working options and a rich benefits package.

Benefits

20% colleague discount

Competitive holiday entitlement

Discretionary bonus schemes

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Wide range of training programmes

Wellbeing support

Charity volunteer day

Qualifications

• Extensive proven experience in cloud-based data technologies and data warehousing design principles.
• Sophisticated understanding of design/building end-to-end data solutions.
• Solid experience with ETL tools, Databricks, SQL, Python, and Spark.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-quality, reliable data solutions with automation.
• Own complex tasks and deliver them routinely.
• Support other data engineers with code reviews and pair programming.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines aligned with ETL principles.
• Drive solutions through experimentation and innovation.
• Support the build of analytical tools for actionable insights.

Skills

Cloud-based data technologies

Data warehousing design principles

ETL tools

Databricks

SQL

Python

Spark

Job description

What’s in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special...

• After completing your probationary period, you\'ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you\'re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you\'ll do

• Build and maintain high-quality, reliable data solutions and own it with a high degree of automation in the cloud.
• Own complex tasks in the backlog and deliver them routinely with no significant issues.
• Support other data engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals.
• Drive solution through experimentation and innovation.
• Support the build of analytical tools that use the data pipeline to deliver actionable insights, enabling data driven decision making, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.

Who you are

• Extensive proven experience in cloud-based data technologies and data warehousing design principles, preferably Azure.
• Sophisticated understanding of design/building end-to-end data solutions.
• Solid experience with ETL tools, Databricks, SQL.
• Solid experience with Python/SQL/Spark.

Everyone\'s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We\'re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We\'re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you\'d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don\'t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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