Sainsbury's

Company Name: Sainsbury's
Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer - AWS- Kubernetes - PaaS
Job Description: 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.

As a Senior Platform Engineer in the Cloud PaaS team, you will contribute to the development, delivery and operation of a modern self-service Kubernetes platform, which serves the needs of hundreds of developers across numerous application teams. Enabling Sainsbury’s to deliver a great shopping experience to 20M customers a week, in as fast, safe and efficient way possible. This is a fully distributed team and are based across the UK, the in office requirement would only be once a quarter and you could come into our London, Coventry or Manchester office.

It is the PaaS’ team’s responsibility to build and operate a compelling internal Platform product, ensuring we offer capabilities to meet the needs of our customers; the application teams. We leverage many modern cloud native technologies as part of our PaaS product, including; EKS, Helm, Istio, Flux, Terraform and GitHub Actions (to name a few) but we aim to make technology choices that complement our existing ecosystem and crucially add value, not because they are new and shiny.

You’ll be a role model for best practices, championing a customer centric mindset and a passion for finding creative ways to solve problems, as well as mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community. We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo.

More About The Role

You’ll be part of a team that owns the architecture, development and operation of a large-scale PaaS responsible for hosting containerised workloads in the cloud.
You’ll work with the team to implement the product technical roadmap for Sainsbury’s strategic PaaS
You’ll work with technologies at Enterprise scale
You may be asked to participate in out of hours support and should aim to build reliability and fault tolerance into the product, as well as engineering systems that are simple to diagnose and fix.
You’ll guide, support and enable performance within the team through providing technical knowledge and ideas

More About You

Great expertise in modern Cloud engineering practices, including deep knowledge of system architecture, reliability engineering and DevOps principles.
Proven experience of cloud architecture, container orchestration, infrastructure as code and CI/CD
Proven ability to write code in one or more of our core languages (Typescript, Go, Python, Bash)
Self-driven and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers
Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies
A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole SDLC and living the DevSecOps principles
Ideally, prior experience of developing and operating a self-service Platform-as-a-Service.
A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence of curiosity in emerging tech
Display pragmatism, empathy and understanding when interacting with team, stakeholders and customers.

Technologies we use

AWS
Kubernetes (EKS)
Istio
Terraform
Flux
Crossplane
Helm
ELK / EFK
Hashicorp Vault
GitHub Actions
Prometheus / Thanos / Grafana
New Relic
Kafka
OPA Gatekeeper
Typescript, Go, Python, Bash

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
Holiday allowance
Bonus scheme
Pension plan
Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

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).

London, United Kingdom

On site

07-03-2025

Company Name: Sainsbury's
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer - SQL
Job Description: 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.

Sainsburys Tech - Senior Data Engineer with core skills in Python, AWS, SQL, CI/CD

Why Join Us:

We are looking an experienced Senior Data Engineer with core skills in Python, AWS, SQL, CI/CD. As an Engineer, you'll have the chance to write great SQL, design complex data models, collaborate with a talented team, and deliver robust data products alongside Data Architects, Data Engineers and Product Managers. Join us to be part of our data revolution and shape incredible experiences for our colleagues and customers. At Sainsbury's, we may be a 150-year-old retail chain, but we're on an exciting journey of transformation. As a Tech professional, you should consider joining us because we're changing the way we operate, embracing nimble thinking, and empowering our teams to push boundaries and create amazing systems and technologies. We're unlocking the immense potential of petabytes of data, leveraging it to make business decisions that are unparalleled. With thousands of shops, hundreds of thousands of colleagues, and millions of customers, we offer an unparalleled opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects.

What You'll Do:

Build and maintain scalable, robust, and well-tested data software products using Python, AWS, SQL, and CI/CD.
Write efficient SQL queries and design complex data models to identify and manage data relationships.
Increase efficiency, speed of data ingestion, data quality, and ensure data security and compliance.
Automate deployments and testing, and develop monitoring and alerting tools for live applications.
Create designs for complex projects, iterating existing components or designing new ones as needed.
Collaborate with Data Architects, Data Engineers, Product Managers and Strategy teams to deliver world-class data products.
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:

Passionate about data with previous experience as a Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer or Backend Software Engineer.
Skilled in building scalable, robust software products in Python and proficient in SQL and core software engineering principles.
Experienced with relevant coding languages and unit testing.
Understanding of version control systems, continuous integration pipelines, and service-oriented architecture.
Knowledgeable about relational and non-relational databases, modern data architecture frameworks, and appropriate design techniques such as data vault and data warehousing.
Highly numerate with the ability to drive business change through data.
Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex information in simple terms.
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.
Positive impact on the wider engineering and analytics community through contributions and support.

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).

London, United Kingdom

On site

10-03-2025

Company Name: Sainsbury's
Job Title: Data Engineer - Python, Pyspark, EMR, AWS, SQL, CI/CD
Job Description: 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.

Data Engineer - Python, Pyspark, EMR, AWS, SQL, CI/CD

Hybrid Working - London/Home

We are looking an experienced Data Engineer with core skills in Python, Pyspark, EMR, AWS, SQL, CI/CD. At Sainsburys Data Tech we’re unlocking petabytes of untapped potential. We have thousands of shops, hundreds of thousands of colleagues, and millions of customers. We’re on a mission to use our data to enable business decisions that can’t be made anywhere else. We want the revolution of Gutenberg, the freedom of information, the spread of ideas, the standardisation of information.

What to expect as a Data Engineer:

We have 23 data squads in Sainsbury’s, within the capabilities family we build data software products for these data squads to use leveraging the latest tech and tools in this market space
The aim of our products is to increase efficiency, speed of data ingestion into our reporting platform, data quality and ensure data security and compliance
We are product focused and big on design and are looking for engineer’s interested in data software engineering and building out products from start to finish
Writing code, we love writing beautiful code
Big on automation including deployments and testing (CICD)
Building out Monitoring and Alerting tools for live applications
Working as a team during collaborative design hubs
Getting lost in a StackOverflow rabbit hole whilst you develop a new feature
Jumping on a huddle with the team to discuss a tricky problem
Pair programming to diagnose an elusive bug
Jumping on a Pull Request to provide a constructive brain dump
Building relationships with your colleagues – mentoring them, and teaching things you’ve learned
Partnering with Data Modellers, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, Architects and Product Managers to deliver world-class data products

We’d Love To Hear From You If:

You’re interested in the world of Data, and have previous experience as a Data Engineer, Backend Software Engineer or similar domain
You have experience building scalable, robust, and well-tested Software products in Python with good coding practices,
You’re curious and ask questions about technologies and use initiative to figure things out
You like having ownership of your work and seeing it through
You’ve got a point of view but are low ego

Some Of Our Tech Stack

Must have experience with:

Python
AWS
SQL

Beneficial if experience of:

Snowflake
Terraform

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 10% 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, 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.

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).

London, United Kingdom

On site

10-03-2025

Company Name: Sainsbury's
Job Title: Engineering Manager - ML Platform
Job Description: 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.

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's Tech means becoming part of an inclusive and driven team that is passionate about creating innovative solutions. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading and coaching talented engineering teams, driving the delivery of impactful solutions that drive efficiency and enhance performance across the business. With a focus on continuous improvement, you will have the opportunity to shape a world-class engineering function and contribute to the development of cutting-edge processes and technologies. At Sainsbury's, we value collaboration, diversity, and inclusivity, and offer a supportive and inspiring environment where you can make a purposeful contribution. Join us to be a part of an organisation that fosters technical excellence and embraces the power of diversity to shape the technology landscape of a leading UK retailer.

About The Team

You'll lead a multi-skilled engineering team at Sainsbury’s, where we lead the development and management of our new Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning platform.

What You'll Do

Own and evolve a newly built ML Ops platform on Microsoft Azure, supporting the full ML lifecycle—from data sourcing & feature engineering to training, deployment, and real-time serving.
Architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions, making key build vs. buy decisions to maximise business impact.
Drive innovation, delivering new AI/ML capabilities such as graph neural networks and LLM Ops.
Oversee the migration & modernisation of existing ML models into a unified strategic stack.
Enable multiple cross-functional teams of data scientists and ML engineers, supporting AI-driven automation across the business —from personalisation to logistics optimisation.
Own the end-to-end delivery and operations of the platform, balancing feature development with production stability.
Collaborate with Product teams to define and prioritise AI/ML capabilities, ensuring delivery at pace and to a high standard.
Build a brand-new high-performing engineering team, hiring diverse talent while leveraging third-party resources where needed.
Define the technical vision for AI & ML Engineering at Sainsbury’s, embedding best practices across the organisation.
Champion agile/lean delivery, oversee budgets, and manage service support and SLAs.

Who You Are

A passionate and experienced leader with a deep understanding of the role AI & ML plays in retail success.
A strategic technical expert with hands-on experience in ML Engineering & DevOps, delivering and operating large-scale platforms.
Skilled in cloud architecture (Azure or AWS a plus), data pipelines, stream processing, and real-time analytics.
A people-first leader who can hire, develop, and retain top talent while fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture.
A champion of modern engineering practices, bringing cutting-edge tools and methodologies to improve team efficiency and innovation.
A results-driven problem solver with strong financial acumen, ensuring investments deliver maximum value.

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).

London, United Kingdom

On site

11-03-2025

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