ABOUT US

From a single store in 1861 we have grown to be one of the most successful co-operatives in the UK. We’re proud to be able to offer a wide range of services from across our family of businesses. From Food Stores and Pharmacies to Post Offices and Support Services, we’re a growing society made up of over 220 outlets and nearly 3,000 colleagues.
We’re owned by our members, the people of Lincolnshire and surrounding counties, and have been for more than 160 years! Communities are at the heart of everything we do and motivates us to deliver more than great customer service. We support them by sharing dividend with our members, investing in new and improved services, raising money for charity through our Community Champion scheme, supporting local schools and so much more! Find out more about us, our purpose and wonderful colleagues here.
We work together as a Society and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is barrier free and as inclusive as possible for everyone. If you need any adjustments, would like us to do anything differently during the interview or would like to get in touch with us about anything else, please contact our Recruitment team on (01522) 533316, or alternatively you can email careers@lincolnshire.coop.
We may choose to close our vacancies in the event that we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so we encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Are you a skilled leader passionate about managing end-to-end data and integration solutions that empower business insight and innovation? At Lincolnshire Co-op, we’re evolving our data capabilities to unlock smarter decision-making across all our operations.
We’re looking for a Data Engineering and Integration Manager to oversee the delivery of robust, scalable data pipelines and seamless system integrations. You’ll lead a talented team and collaborate closely with business and technical stakeholders to ensure our data infrastructure supports analytics, AI/ML, and reporting needs.

Your key responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of high-quality data engineering and integration solutions, balancing immediate priorities with long-term strategic goals and acting as the link between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes and modern architectures (Data Warehouse, Lakehouse), ensuring reliable data ingestion, flow and interoperability across systems and platforms.
• Oversee integration activities, managing tools and suppliers to standardise, automate and optimise data exchange, while ensuring data governance, quality, and compliance.
• Support data-driven initiatives, enabling AI/ML, analytics and reporting through a robust data infrastructure aligned with the Business Intelligence strategy.
• Lead and develop the team, managing budgets and supplier performance and keeping ahead of evolving technologies, tools and best practices in data engineering and integration.