Job Description

Team:

Data & Insights

Ref.:

VN989

Type:

Permanent

Location:

Hatfield

Data Engineer

Contract type:

Permanent

Location:

Hatfield (Hybrid working - 3 days in the office)

Working hours per week:

40 hours

Level:

Associate

Application closing date:

Thursday 31st July 2025

About us

Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivaled service, and reassuringly good value.

We're

Ocado Retail

, a market-leading, joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S and the world's largest dedicated online supermarket

ocado.com

. Not only is Ocado.com the only place to shop a full range of M&S food online, but it's also the home to the widest online supermarket range in the UK and champion of small, independent brands. We're also the brains behind

Zoom by Ocado

, our same-day grocery delivery service.

About the team and the role

The Data & Insights department ensures that we keep accurate data at the heart of all of Ocado Retail's decision making. As a Data Engineer your skills will be essential in building and maintaining the foundations of our data solution; bringing in large quantities of data from a variety of sources, and ensuring it's clearly structured and documented. The data warehouse you would help manage would then be used by our Reporting team to deliver business intelligence to a wide range of stakeholders, and our Insights and Data Science teams to experiment and improve our proposition.

This Data Engineer role sits within a distributed Data Management team (offshore and onshore) of ~20. You will work through a backlog of developments to evolve our data warehouse. This includes integrating new data sources, developing data marts, analysing and resolving data quality issues and evolving our framework and practices to improve our delivery or development efficiency.

What you'll do

Work as part of the Data Management team to build and maintain our data warehouse. + Work with data users around the business to understand new requirements or issues with existing assets.
+ Build ELT pipelines, sourcing data from multiple systems and propagating results into data warehouse and marts.
+ Monitor, manage and resolve operational and quality issues within the data warehouse and marts.
+ Manage security and information confidentiality.
+ Peer QA and test deliverables.
+ Support deployment and validation.
Adhere to agreed standards and processes to ensure our work output is consistent, compliant and of high quality. Contribute to development of standards and processes to take advantage of rapidly evolving technologies, to improve team efficiency or work quality (e.g. with AI assistance). Collaborate with technical teams to integrate data scientists' models and business logic into production systems

Who you are

Experience with cloud data engineering, preferably with Google Cloud Platform Proficient with SQL and Python Experience working with cloud data orchestration tools e.g. Google Cloud Composer/Apache Airflow Experience working with grocery retail/e-commerce data Experience working with change management and CI/CD tools e.g. GitLab Evidence of improving efficiency in a data organisation with effective automation Experience working with Agile or other responsive application development methods Able to self-direct and take on broad projects from end-to-end Comfortable interacting with a wide range of stakeholders and data consumers

What's in it for you

By joining Ocado Retail you'll have the chance to experience life at the world's largest online retailer, work with an amazing bunch of people who challenge what's possible each day and grow your skills and career in online retail.

If that's not enough to tempt you, you'll also get access to loads of great benefits to sweeten the deal. Here's a taste of what we offer:

Health & Wellbeing: Private medical insurance with option to add your family, Digital GP appointments, market leading family policies, mental health support, discounted gym memberships, dental insurance and more.

Spend & Save: Annual bonus scheme split between personal and business objectives, recognition with reward platform, up to 7% matched pension contributions, 15% Ocado discount, 20% M&S discount, free breakfast everyday in the office, electric vehicle leasing scheme and free shuttle bus from Hatfield station to the office.

Never miss the moments that matter: Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays , options to buy extra holiday, 2 weeks work from anywhere and lifestyle break opportunities.

Our Hiring Process

Lucky for us, we get loads of great applications and we really appreciate that so many people put the time and effort in to apply. To recognise that, we treat all applications respectfully and fairly. So, if yours stands out, you'll follow our standard hiring process - one of our Talent Partners will talk you through this in an initial call.

Everyone's welcome

We're an equal opportunities employer. That means that we make sure all potential colleagues are treated fairly and equally. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form.