Senior Analytics Engineer - SQL, OLAP, AWS

Sainsburys Tech - Senior Analytics Engineer – SQL, Cloud, OLAP

Hybrid Working London and Home

Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's Tech as a Senior Analytics Engineer means becoming part of a leading technology organisation that powers the UK's top multi-channel, multi-brand retailer. We are a community of passionate engineers who are empowered to define and deliver through the use of technology. With a focus on continuous improvement and technical excellence, you'll have the opportunity to shape our engineering vision, drive adoption of best practises, and work with cutting-edge technologies.

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will bridge the domains of architecture, data engineering, and data insights to lead technical solutions that empower our business initiatives. You will help steer cross-functional teams, including Architects, Product Managers, Engineers, and Strategy teams, to design, develop, and implement data-driven solutions. You will define and champion best practices, contribute to technical decision-making, and support continuous improvement initiatives within the organisation by delivering actionable insights through analytics.

What you'll do
As a Senior Analytics Engineer at Sainsbury's Tech, you will:

• Guide Analytics Engineers by defining and demonstrating best practices in analytics
• Create designs for complex projects (data products), iterating existing components or designing new components as needed
• Influence teams within your area of responsibility to design and build components aligned with the overall roadmap and engineering principles
• Design and implement solutions to address Data Quality issues and to improve the overall quality of all deliverables 
• Collaborate within teams to contribute to the execution of the organisation's technical strategy, focusing on the development and deployment of data solutions
• Lead outcomes, develop stakeholder relationships, and deliver high-quality insights through data storytelling
• Write code following coding standards and best practices, adhering to a test-driven and behaviour-driven development approach
• Assist in architecting systems, designing efficient data solutions, and facilitating technical decision-making
• Apply insightful domain knowledge to business problems, recommending and implementing data-led approaches
• Ensure high-quality, accurate, and professional outputs that drive real business decisions

Who you are

• High proficiency in SQL for data transformation, analysis and problem-solving
• Good understanding of relational and non-relational databases and experience with Data Vault and OLAP architectures
• Experience with cloud-based data warehouses is an advantage
• Experience with relevant coding languages and unit testing
• Understanding of version control systems, continuous integration pipelines, and service-oriented architecture
• Highly numerate background with the ability to drive business change through data
• Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex information in simple terms using available documentation tools
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with a curiosity to explore opportunities and solve problems logically
• Proactive attitude towards continuous learning and career development
• Delivery of solutions with longevity and maintainability following the latest Agile practices
• Working knowledge of modern data architecture frameworks, understanding of Architecture & Engineering Standards/ Principles and knowing when and how to implement frameworks and when to make suggestions for new Standards
• Understanding the need for different and appropriate design techniques, such as data vault and data warehousing

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.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and 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. Here are some of them:
 
 Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.  
 
 Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why 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).