Senior Data Platform Engineer – Databricks & Lakehouse

Primark; Reading; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Primark is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Platform & Engineering team in Reading, UK. You’ll design and deliver scalable data solutions on the Databricks platform, building trusted data products for reporting, analytics, AI and data science.

You will mentor engineers, drive engineering best practices and help migrate from Teradata to Databricks, shaping Primark's data & analytics capabilities across the business.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data pipelines.
• Proven track record in lakehouse architectures and data modelling.
• Strong leadership, mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.
• Hands-on expertise with Databricks, Spark and SQL at scale.
• Experience migrating data platforms (Teradata to Databricks) is a plus.
• Azure cloud data platform knowledge and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise scalable data pipelines and transformations.
• Architect and maintain lakehouse data models and platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and establish engineering best practices.
• Lead code reviews, mentoring and knowledge sharing across teams.
• Drive platform modernization and migration projects (Teradata to Databricks).
• Partner with Analytics, Data Science and governance teams to deliver value.

Skills

Advanced data engineering

Data architecture

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Databricks

dbt Cloud

dbt Core

Azure

PySpark

Spark

SQL

Job description

Primark is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Platform & Engineering team in Reading, UK. You’ll design and deliver scalable data solutions on the Databricks platform, building trusted data products for reporting, analytics, AI and data science.

You will mentor engineers, drive engineering best practices and help migrate from Teradata to Databricks, shaping Primark's data & analytics capabilities across the business.