Data Engineer - Protect (North)

General information

Job Title Data Engineer - Protect (North) Ref # 9211 Location Edinburgh Department Pricing (TU) Business Area Pricing Working time Full-Time Date Published 07-02-2025

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary: From £35K+ DOE
Work Level: 1
Location: Reigate, Edinburgh or Newcastle Permanent – blended working approach
Closing date: 02 May 2025

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

We’re looking for a Data Engineer to join our Insurance Money and Services team.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll build and maintain data flows and data acquisition processes to deliver well-structured, efficient, and performant data marts to drive business analysis and processes. Reporting to the Data Engineering Lead(s) for direction (in terms of priorities or technical support), you’ll support them through the delivery of projects and work within deadlines, prompt escalation of risks or issues and ensuring that day to day activities are delivered within SLAs.

You’ll liaise with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, delivering end to end data requests and ensuring single version of the truth across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing
· Data Collection and Analysis: Produce accurate reports for stakeholders by collecting data from a variety of standard sources and inputting it into standard formats. Identify and monitor associated Data & BI risks and report any business impact with recommended solutions to the Data Engineering Lead(s).
· Application Development: Contribute to development of existing and new SAS based applications by analysing and identifying areas for modification and improvement to meet customer requirements.
· Product/Service Development: Solve known problems and/or deliver defined outcomes by performing designated development/engineering activities using existing systems.
· Technical Developments Recommendation: Working with the Data & BI team to develop and maintain a comprehensive data warehouse using SAS/SQL language to ensure all data clearly defined and consistently maintained throughout the organisation.
· Data Governance: Develop and maintain data dictionaries covering factors and measures within data warehouses. Responsible for supporting all aspects of data such as Quality, Security, Management, Architecture, Availability and Performance.
· Troubleshooting and Debugging: Provide fault isolation and resolution to limit and address issues promptly.
· Project Management: Responsible for processing Data & BI requests for internal and external stakeholders in a timely manner whilst ensuring data accuracy and audits are not compromised. Liaising with internal stakeholders regularly to ensure assistance is given in understanding Data & BI for improving business performance or operations.


We need you to have

· Ability to analyse and interpret data with good investigative and analytical skills and make recommendations.
· Strong communication skills (both verbal and written) with non-technical internal colleagues.
· In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Excel).
· Proven organisation skills with the ability to work with tight deadlines.
· Able to demonstrate sound attention to detail, ensuring any output is accurate before being passed onto the wider business.
· Experience developing and maintaining strong working relationships.
· Demonstrate a ‘Can Do’ attitude with a desire to thrive in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

And if you have any of these, even better

· Some knowledge of SQL / SAS is preferred but not essential.
· Sound experience and understanding of established procedures or systems.
· Evidence of problem solving, investigative and analytical skills.
· Evidence of learning technical skills.
· Insurance or other financial services experience would be beneficial.
· Experience on SAS VIYA, Jira, Fabric, GitHub is good to have.
· STEM degree is preferred but not essential.

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.


What’s in it for you?

· Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
· Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
· Performance related annual bonus.
· Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
· Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
· Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
· A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
· Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome


We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

Interviews will be held in May 2025. We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.
Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.
Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.
So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.
We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.
Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!