Senior Data Platform Architect & Strategy Lead

Kingfisher plc; Southampton, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Care

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

25 Days' Holiday

Staff Discount

Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Life Assurance

Bonus

Kingfisher Share Save

Development and progression support

Job summary

Kingfisher plc is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to be a senior technical authority across Group Technology. You will shape the design and evolution of data platforms and products, lead complex cross‑team initiatives and raise engineering standards across multiple squads.

This is a hands‑on leadership role connecting deep technical expertise with business outcomes, influencing architecture, roadmaps and investment decisions while enabling engineers to deliver scalable, cost‑efficient data

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in distributed data processing and cloud‑native systems.
• Proven experience delivering large‑scale data platforms and production‑grade pipelines.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with hands‑on Spark/PySpark/Scala.
• Experience with dbt for data modelling and transformation.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (GCP/Azure/AWS) and services like Databricks/BigQuery.
• Understanding of DevOps/DataOps, CI/CD, Git, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Great Expectations and data quality tooling.
• Understanding of batch, streaming and event‑driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive data platform and data engineering strategy aligned with Group Technology.
• Lead architecture decisions and establish scalable standards across pipelines, storage and processing.
• Shape long‑term roadmaps with Architecture and Product teams.
• Design and deliver production‑ready data platforms and pipelines that are scalable and cost‑efficient.
• Champion modern engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, DevOps, observability).
• Strengthen data quality, governance and security while promoting reusable data products.

Skills

Distributed data processing

Python

SQL

Spark

PySpark

Scala

dbt

Cloud platforms

Databricks

BigQuery

Azure Data Factory

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Great Expectations

Batch processing

Streaming

Observability

Tools

Databricks

BigQuery

Azure Data Factory

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Kingfisher plc is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to be a senior technical authority across Group Technology. You will shape the design and evolution of data platforms and products, lead complex cross‑team initiatives and raise engineering standards across multiple squads.

This is a hands‑on leadership role connecting deep technical expertise with business outcomes, influencing architecture, roadmaps and investment decisions while enabling engineers to deliver scalable, cost‑efficient data