Data Engineering Manager - Fixed Term Contract
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Secondment
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 28 January 2025
Requisition ID: 277869
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
About the team
We believe that data is at the core of making informed decisions, driving business strategies, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. Our Data Team plays a critical role in transforming raw data into actionable insights that empower teams across the company to innovate and succeed.
The Data Team is made up of highly skilled professionals who are passionate about using data to solve complex problems and create impactful solutions. We collaborate with stakeholders from various departments, such as product, engineering, marketing, commercial and finance, to ensure that data is leveraged to drive decision-making and unlock new opportunities for growth.
What you'll do
* Lead a multi-skilled data engineering team to deliver innovative and high-performing solutions that create value and drive efficiency for our business.
* Oversee change and run activities while owning the entire technology lifecycle, including service management.
* Collaborate closely with product owners and the business to drive progress and influence outcomes.
* Recruit and retain a talented team, mentor and coach colleagues, and shape a world-class engineering function.
* Define the technical direction and vision, foster communities of practice, and advocate for agile/lean delivery methodologies.
* Manage people and product financial data, meet targets, provide accurate reporting, and seek value realisation opportunities.
* Lead by example and inspire your team, continuously striving for improvement and delivering impactful solutions while maintaining attention to detail.
Who you are
* An experienced and passionate leader with a deep understanding of the critical role that product data plays in a retailer's success.
* Technical expertise and end-to-end ownership mindset to drive the delivery of innovative solutions.
* Ability to recruit, retain, and motivate teams, with excellent interpersonal skills and a commitment to fostering a collaborative culture.
* Bring cutting-edge processes and technologies to enhance our engineering practices and drive the adoption of agile/lean methodologies.
* Attention to detail, strategic mindset, and financial acumen to manage budgets and optimise value realisation.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. We take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits, including:
* Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday.
* Pension scheme and life cover.
* Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary.
* Annual holiday allowance with the option to buy additional holiday.
* Season ticket loans, interest-free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, and pay advance options.
* Employee Assistance Programme and eligibility for private healthcare.
We give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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