What You’ll Get
* Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus.
* 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and optional purchase of 5 additional days.
* Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.
What You’ll Do as a Data Platform & Engineering Lead
* Lead the end‑to‑end migration from Teradata to a cloud‑native Databricks platform, ensuring performance, governance, and scalability.
* Design and implement scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows using Databricks, Python/PySpark, and advanced SQL.
* Architect and maintain medallion/lakehouse data models (bronze/silver/gold).
* Build and mentor a data engineering team, defining coding standards, best practices, and delivery processes.
* Collaborate cross‑functionally with analytics, data science, and business teams to deliver high‑quality data solutions.
What You’ll Bring
* Strong hands‑on expertise in Databricks and Spark (including Delta Lake and Databricks SQL), advanced SQL, and migration of enterprise workloads from Teradata to modern cloud platforms.
* Experience delivering and operating scalable data platforms on Azure (Data Lake, Data Factory, Unity Catalog desirable), with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and data quality.
* Proven technical leader, guiding architecture and engineering standards while leading internal and third‑party teams in agile, fast‑paced environments.
* Demonstrated ability to translate data platform and engineering outcomes into measurable commercial value, including cost optimisation, faster insights, and improved business performance.
* Product‑ and value‑driven mindset, managing data platforms as products through road‑mapping, service levels, adoption, and value‑based backlog prioritisation aligned to OKRs/KPIs.
* Strong commercial acumen and problem‑solving capability, with experience in cloud cost and performance optimisation (FinOps) and stakeholder decision support.
* Collaborative and inspirational leader with retail experience, known for coaching teams, driving continuous improvement, and building a high‑performance learning culture aligned to Primark values.
Does this sound like you? Great, we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future – and we’re excited to develop yours.
About Primark
Primark is a global retailer with over 440 stores in 17 countries, supporting a workforce of more than 80,000 colleagues. We promote equal employment opportunity, strive to create an inclusive workplace, and encourage each person to thrive together.
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REQ ID: JR-7207
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