Overview
Lead Engineer - Data at Asda. On-site presence in Asda House, Leeds required three days per week.
Job Title: Lead Engineer - Data
Location: Asda House, Leeds
Employment Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits
Category: Business Intelligence
Closing Date: 27 September 2025
This role requires on-site presence at Asda House in Leeds three days per week. We’re really looking forward to having you around!
Responsibilities
* Provide technical mentorship and direction to data engineers, helping to elevate team capability and maintain engineering standards, while maximizing potential and promoting career growth.
* Foster a DevOps culture of “you build it, you run it, you own it”, promoting autonomy and ownership across the engineering organisation.
* Lead best practices in data engineering, code reviews, and development activities, ensuring the highest quality standards. Contribute to the Lead Engineer & Agile communities of practice. Ensure data quality and integrity.
* Work with structured, semi-structured and structured data with varying latencies, from batch through to real-time.
* Ensure engineering solutions comply with architectural frameworks and best practices defined by Data Architects.
* Collaborate with Product Managers and Data Analysts to translate business requirements into scalable, performant data solutions.
* Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance data engineering capabilities.
* Balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with technical leadership to drive high-quality delivery.
Qualifications / About You
* Proven experience building and maintaining high-quality, secure data solutions.
* Experience operating scalable and high-performance applications in production environments.
* Good understanding of Microsoft Azure tooling including Azure Databricks, with hands-on experience preferred.
* Strong understanding of data modelling and architectures (e.g., data vaults, data warehousing, data lakes).
* Experience with Azure-based solutions such as Azure Data Factory.
* Extensive experience with Python, SQL, and preferably PySpark.
* Version control and best practices using GitHub.
* Experience with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Lean).
* Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
* Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring data engineers.
Benefits
* Discretionary company bonus
* Company pension up to 7% matched
* Company Car allowance of £5,700
* 15% colleague discount in store and online
* Wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental plans, and employee assistance helpline
* Asda Allies Inclusion Networks
* Parental leave policies including maternity & adoption, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, plus fertility treatment support
We want all colleagues to bring their best and true selves to work. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
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