Lead Data Engineer

Job Title

Lead Data Engineer

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Business Intelligence

Closing Date

30 July 2025

 

This role requires on-site presence at Asda House in Leeds three days per week (Mon & Fri, plus one other day). We’re really looking forward to having

you around!

We’re looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our Data Team, within our Commercial & Supply domain. As the most senior engineer working across a number of squads, you’ll blend hands-on engineering with providing technical leadership and mentorship to data engineers. You will work closely with Product Managers, Visualisation Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Architects, and other stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-quality data products that drive Asda’s strategic objectives. Additionally, you’ll play a central role in championing best practices and fostering continuous improvement, actively contributing within our Agile community of practice.

Your Role

Provide technical mentorship and direction to data engineers, helping to elevate team capability and maintain engineering standards, but also maximise their potential and promote 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.  Contributing to the Lead Engineer & Agile communities of practice.  Ensuring 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 ensure business requirements are translated 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.

About You

• Proven experience building and maintaining high-quality, secure data solutions.

• Skilled in operating scalable and high-performance applications in production environments.  Prepare to be tenacious and collaborate to drive the right solutions forward.
• Have a good understanding of Microsoft Azure tooling including Azure Databricks, preferably with hands-on experience.
• Strong understanding of data modelling and architectures (e.g. data vaults, data warehousing, data lakes etc.)
• Experience with Azure based solutions such as Azure Data Factory.
• Extensive experience with languages such as Python, SQL and, preferably, PySpark.
• Version control and best practices using Github.
• Experience in working with Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring data engineers.

We welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time hours, flexible working arrangements, or job share opportunities.

Apply today by completing an online application…

If you have any questions about the role, then please email clare.tempest@asda.uk

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Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.  Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced  to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves"