Trainee Data Engineer

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our eCommerce Data team as a Trainee Data Engineer! Based at NEXT Head Office in Enderby, Leicestershire with a competitive starting salary of £30,238 and great benefits!

The eCommerce Data Team provides the department and the business the means to see what is working and what is not by drawing data and analysing patterns of shopping on our site and in general. 

About the role

A Trainee Data Engineer will sit within the Engineering team, to support our Data Engineers to better our architecture and website platform offering. This is done through researching and trialling new technologies, keeping up to date with the industry to ensure we are keeping ahead of the game and reducing latency and increasing efficiency and data quality. What else is involved?

• You will be researching and trialling new technologies for different purposes across the wider marketing analytics team.
• You will learn how to build data pipelines / data flows in the cloud and how to work with databases
• You will gain knowledge of transferring data to and from Google, Meta, other Social media platforms and third parties.
• You will support the Data Engineers with processing BigData on largedatasets with billions of rows.
• You will be learning how to improving efficiencies and quality of data provided, creating dashboards and handling errors through alerts 
• You will be working with tools and platforms including:, Azure,GCP, DataBricks, BigQuery, 
• You will learn about building and working with  CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• You will learn a key understanding of best practises within data; Code Review, Documentation and Data Quality

What we’re looking for

• You will be an analytical person.
• You will have a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or other relevant fields.
• You will be a good communicator, comfortable presenting and sharing ideas with other team members and senior stakeholders. 
• You will have strong experience  of using Python, Spark, SQL  and a broad understanding of working in a cloud based environment.
• You will be organised, thorough & excited by a challenge.
• You will be willing to learn different coding technologies and analytical platforms
• You will be good at prioritising workload to meet requirements and tight deadlines.

You’ll be doing all this from our Leicestershire Head Office. Our offices are inspiring, yes. But we understand that life happens. So, we’re big on making sure your work, works for you which is why we offer flexible working.

Next Steps

We are looking for the successful candidates to start with us as soon as possible. The recruitment process will involve a series of activities including a 1st stage and 2nd virtual interview.

You will be contacted by 11th July 2025 to let you know if you have progressed to the first stage assessments.

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!