Sainsburys Jobs – Data Solution Architect

Job Description:

The big question: why on earth should a Tech professional like you work for a 150-year-old retail chain? Because we’re on a journey. Changing the way we operate. Learning to think nimble. Giving our teams the time and freedom they need to push boundaries. To create amazing systems and technologies. To give our colleagues and our customers even more incredible experiences.

There are thousands of experts to talk to and learn from. We’ve got data from billions of transactions for our teams to play with. Things get built here. They get made here. They hit customers and colleagues quickly. Welcome to the home of Sainsbury’s Tech.

We are looking for Lead Architect to create common patterns and principles across multiple sprint teams. Technologies in our stack include Snowflake, MicroStrategy, AWS, Containers, Streams, R, Python, Scala, and Java. Used to deliver an integrated data lake in S3, a group wide data warehouse and data services to support algorithmic decision-making.

Job Responsibilities:

• Excellent all-round data warehousing experience including: agile data development; data ingestion pipelines; data modelling; query performance; database administration; data governance; database security
• Notify the Snowflake community of any significant tooling issues as well as remediation options
• Work collaboratively with the Snowflake Community to identify and embed technical improvement opportunities
• Work closely with the wider Architecture community to develop principles, guidelines and best practice approaches around core capabilities
• Comfortable presenting technical concepts, ideas and status updates to senior stakeholders
• Strong data modelling skills, not limited to relational data modelling
• Become an expert on the Snowflake database, providing design and implementation guidance as well as developing and agreeing principles with the wider community.
• Able to work with a varied customer base including Data Engineers, Data Architects, Analysts and Data Scientists
• Experience of data-science, BI, visualisation, or analytical tooling is an advantage
• Create and lead a community around the Snowflake database to implement best practice approaches and operating principles within teams, incorporating amongst other aspects – automation, security, CI/CD, data pipelines, capacity management/cost, performance tuning and monitoring.

Job Requirements:

• Strong influencing and communication skills coupled with the ability to line manage and coach team members
• A colleague who enjoys being involved in the hands on elements of modelling, languages, tools and infrastructure.
• Self-driven and constantly striving to improve your team.
• A passion for and strong background in the use of databases within an analytical and visualisation context.
• Continually strives to understand new technical opportunities and has the tenacity to learn associated skills
• A solution architect with a passion for delivering solutions to customers.
• Advocate of agile/lean delivery methodologies.
• Knowledgeable about data modelling, access and storage.

Qualification & Experience:

• Flexible working and job share conversations are encouraged.
• Across our multi-brands, we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture.
• If you’re reading this, even if you’re not 100% sure you’re there with your experience, we’d still love to hear from you.
• If you’d like to find out more head to Sainsbury’s Tech

Job Details:

Company: Sainsbury’s

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Functions: Engineering Information Technology

Job Location: London, GB

Application Deadline: N/A

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