Lead Data Engineer

Overview

Lead Data Engineer role at Currys plc. Waterloo – Hybrid Working. Full Time. Permanent. Grade 4.

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

As the Lead Data Engineer you will design and implement scalable data architectures that support our AI products and analytics capabilities, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency across all platforms.

• Design and implement data architectures for new products and capabilities, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance.
• Create technical blueprints for data flows, storage patterns and processing pipelines that meet business needs.
• Evaluate and recommend technology choices that balance performance, cost and future scalability.
• Establish and embed data modelling standards and best practices across engineering teams.
• Optimise existing architectures to improve efficiency, cost effectiveness and resilience.
• Partner with product teams to translate requirements into clear architectural solutions.
• Document architectural decisions and maintain an up-to-date technical design repository.
• Provide architectural guidance and support to engineering teams during implementation.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture and platform teams to agree hand-offs and ensure alignment.

You will work closely with colleagues across engineering, product, enterprise architecture and transformation to design scalable, secure and cost-efficient data solutions. Partnering with product managers and business stakeholders, you will translate requirements into architectures that unlock value and drive innovation. You will also collaborate with security, compliance and data governance teams to maintain high standards across all platforms and build trusted relationships across the organisation.

• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures in a complex environment.
• Expertise in modern data platforms including Snowflake, Databricks and leading cloud services.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and real-time data processing.
• Experience applying data modelling techniques to both analytical and operational systems.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Cloud architecture certifications (Azure or GCP) are beneficial.
• Certifications in modern data platforms are desirable.

Join our team and we ll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life. Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we re committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do.

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