About the job

Role: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Reading - 1 day week

Salary: £100,000 + Bonus

I’m looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a major digital transformation programme at a genuinely exciting stage of its journey.

This is an opportunity to join a growing data engineering capability with a huge amount still to build. You’ll be hands-on with the technology, help shape how the data platform develops and have real influence over engineering standards and technical decisions.

You’ll also be joining at a particularly exciting time as the team starts to embed AI and LLM technology into its data environment, giving you the opportunity to be at the forefront of how AI is used alongside modern data engineering.

What we’re looking for:

Strong hands-on Databricks experience
Excellent Python, PySpark and SQL
Experience designing and building scalable data pipelines
Strong understanding of modern Lakehouse/data platform architecture
Experience with Delta Lake / Medallion architecture
Comfortable owning technical decisions and mentoring other Data Engineers
Strong stakeholder skills – able to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Experience within retail, e-commerce, CRM, customer or consumer digital environments would be highly desirable
dbt experience is beneficial but not essential

This isn't a maintenance or BAU position. It's a chance to build, influence and take ownership within a transformation that still has a significant amount of engineering ahead of it.

💰 Up to £100,000 + bonus

📍 Reading – Hybrid

If you're a hands-on Senior Data Engineer who wants more ownership and the opportunity to work increasingly closely with AI, I'd love to hear from you.

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