Senior Data Engineer

Holland and Barrett; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Data Engineer, where you'll play a key role in building and managing cloud-native data integration solutions. This high-impact position involves working with cross-functional teams to enhance the data platform, a central pillar of the company's strategy. You'll leverage AWS services and your programming skills to drive innovation and support advanced analytics and machine learning initiatives. With a focus on performance, security, and collaboration, this role offers significant opportunities for career development and a chance to contribute to the company's transformation into a leading health and wellness retailer.

Benefits

Pension company contribution = 3%

Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary

33 Days Holiday per year

Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)

Career progression

Refer and Earn Scheme

Discounted Products - 25% off

Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare

Onsite Gym at Nuneaton Hub

Colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes

Qualifications

• Proven experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Scala and Python, with CI/CD experience.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and manage cloud-native data integration solutions.
• Collaborate with Data Science to support advanced analytics initiatives.

Skills

AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, EMR, Step Functions, Redshift)

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

CI/CD tools (GitLab CI)

Scala

Python

Serverless architectures

Monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch)

Job description

About the role:

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing Data & Analytics team at Holland & Barrett. This is a high-impact role focused on building, scaling, and managing highly available, cloud-native data integration solutions and services in AWS.

You'll work as part of a cross-functional environment alongside Data Warehousing, BI, Data Science, and Product Analytics teams. A key responsibility will be owning and evolving our Data Lake, managing and integrating a wide variety of consumers and publishers. You'll also collaborate closely with the Data Science team to design and deliver platforms and applications that support advanced analytics and machine learning initiatives.

As part of our transformation to become the leading health and wellness retailer, the data platform is a central pillar of our strategy. We value cloud-native architectures, prefer building tailored solutions over buying off-the-shelf, and fully embrace automation, monitoring, and testing across our software, infrastructure, and data pipelines.

Key requirements:

Technical Skills

• Proven experience with AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, EMR, Step Functions, Redshift, etc.).
• Proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS SAM for Infrastructure as Code.
• Skilled in Docker, containerization, and virtualization.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like GitLab CI.
• Strong programming skills in Scala and/or Python.
• Experience with serverless and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Datadog or CloudWatch.

Ways of Working

• Designs and delivers robust, scalable software with attention to performance and security.
• Works independently and drives projects with minimal oversight.
• Communicates complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborates across teams and mentors junior engineers.
• Takes ownership of operational quality and aligns work with strategic goals.

What we offer:

• Pension company contribution = 3%
• Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary, based on company performance.
• Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 33 Days Holiday per year.
• Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
• Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)
• Career progression.
• Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.
• Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
• Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.
• We all need a little help sometimes, so we offer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
• Stay active in the Onsite Gym at our Nuneaton Hub!
• We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
• And many more!

Our culture:

We respect equality, value diversity, and encourage individuality — because this allows our people to unlock their potential and be their best. We welcome everyone who shares our EPIC values regardless of background, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Holland & Barrett does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Please do not forward resumes to our job alias, employees, or any other company location. We are not responsible for any fees if a candidate submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless otherwise agreed with respect to specific open position(s).