Senior Data Platform Engineer - Advanced Technology

Senior Data Platform Engineer - Advanced Technology | Welwyn Garden City | Hybrid (1-2 days office)

About us:

Ocado Technology is putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We develop the innovative software and systems that power Ocado.com, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer as well as the global ‘Ocado Smart Platform’. With everything from websites to fully autonomous warehouse that we design in-house, our employees need to be specialists in a wide range of technologies to help drive our business. We champion a value-led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment that our people love. Core values of Trust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, Collaboration and Learn Fast help drive our innovative culture.

About the role: 

Data already powers insights, products and capabilities in every part of Ocado Technology but we’re really just getting started. We are growing our global Data Engineering team focussing on the Advanced Technology stream with the mission to serve reliable and relevant product data to internal and external customers.  This is important to help product managers make better decisions on how to take Dexterous Manipulation Robotics and Autonomous Mobility capabilities to the next level.

This position will support the development of a data-driven culture and lead the drive towards using analytics and machine learning in the stream. We have the ambition to become more evidence-driven in our decision-making, and data plays an integral part in translating that ambition into reality, by informing the building of our products.

The Senior Data Engineer’s role is to design, build and maintain scalable, robust and performant data pipelines and related systems that meet technical and functional requirements.  Data engineering work takes place fully in GCP with pre-ingested data coming from our applications.  What you’ll be doing…..

• Design, implement and manage the Data Platform based on GCP
• Design & implement data observability and data governance in the data platform
• Collaborate with platform teams to select data storage, ingestion, and digestion technologies to meet consumption and ingestion patterns
• Proactively design data unit tests to ensure quality and gain visibility into potential anomalies 
• Monitor data objects and provide operational support
• Promote best practices in data engineering (i.e naming conventions, pipeline design standards, DBT model best practices)
• Stay up-to-date with industry developments including conferences, the launch of new technologies and new patterns in data engineering

What we’re looking for: 

• You have a strong grounding in Python, Terraform, SQL, BigQuery and other GCP services
• You have good experience using Terraform to manage GCP infrastructure and permissions
• You have a strong programming experience in Python to build Web apps and API services
• You have a good experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitLab CI/CD
• You are a team player, with experience fostering a culture that is innovative, motivational and highly productive.
• You are commercially minded and can put data into context
• You are proactive, identifying issues and opportunities before having to be told to do so
• You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills

This would make you stand out from the crowd:

• Strong experience in software engineering and data analytics, particularly in a lead role
• You have a wealth of experience using GCP for data engineering
• Experience with the modern data stack, including tools such as dbt, Looker and Airflow.

What do I get in return:

• Hybrid working model (2 days in the office)
• 30 days ‘work from anywhere’ policy + 
• Remote working for the month of August & 50% of December
• Wellbeing support through Apps such as Unmind and an Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase)
• Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete)
• Train Ticket loan (interest-free)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Opportunity to participate in Share save and Buy as You Earn share schemes
• 15% discount on Ocado.com and free delivery for all employees
• Income Protection(can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance(3 x annual salary)
• Free shuttle bus to and from Welwyn Train Station to the Welwyn offices
• Share options + increased free shares annually

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