Lead Engineer - Data Platform

Job Title

Lead Engineer - Data Platform

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Software Engineering

Closing Date

2 March 2025

ASDA are undergoing a vast technology transformation, reworking all technology driving the whole business. The Data team are redesigning the entire data platform, presenting an excellent impact and growth opportunity for a talented platform engineer.

The Data team implements products to support colleagues of all professions and levels across the organisation. Our offerings impact business transformation, strategic business decision making and external reporting.

As a lead engineer you will be responsible for the technical outputs of the Data Platform engineering teams; ensuring robust, secure and scalable solutions are delivered to our technical and non-technical customers. You will work directly with product, platform architects, solution architects and engineers to establish and execute platform technical roadmaps.

Asda’s Data team is at the cutting edge of driving transformative, data-driven decisions across the organisation. We cultivate a high-performance, innovative environment where team members are challenged to push the boundaries of technology and data science. We are developing an industry leading data platform as part of the largest retail data transformation in Europe, which we will use to address some of the most complex data challenges in the industry, developing sophisticated solutions that revolutionize our business operations and elevate customer experiences. We seek the best of the best—professionals who thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic setting and are driven to deliver ground-breaking insights that propel Asda’s strategic initiatives and create lasting impact for Colleagues & Customers.

Joining Asda during our digital and data evolution means you're arriving at an exhilarating time. Data is the bedrock of our transformation strategy, and you'll be positioned at the epicentre of this exciting phase!

In this role, you will:

• Coach and mentor team engineers to maximise their potential, promote career growth and enable innovative thinking.
• Develop and execute a platform engineering roadmap, aligning technology with business objectives.
• Establish and maintain best practices for platform management, engineering and security, ensuring quality and integrity.
• Work with the Lead Engineering Community to define and embed industry best practices and principles into everything you and your team(s) do.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish requirements and deliver solutions to support engineering, business analytics and reporting initiatives.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance data engineering capabilities.
• Play a key role in hiring and onboarding new team members, contributing to the growth and development of the department.

What We Are Looking For

• Have a background in building, maintaining and operating quality, highly scalable and performant platform products.
• Have a good understanding of Microsoft Azure tooling, preferably with hands-on experience.
• Have extensive experience with Databricks.
• Experience in working with Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical business stakeholders.
• Have experience leading and mentoring Engineers.
• You will be proactive, resilient with strong leadership skills and an excellent team player.

Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to choose where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• £5,700 company car or car allowance
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

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.