Data Engineer
Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Data Engineer
£45,000 to £55,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 6A)
Manchester city centre (hybrid working)
Please be aware Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity
We’re open to applications from people who may require flexible working arrangements. There’ll be an opportunity to discuss your flexible working requirements during the interview process, and at offer stage.
We’re looking for Data Engineers to join us and help transform the way we do business. We’re building a new data platform in Databricks to improve our data science, analytics, and business intelligence capabilities, and you’ll play a key part in this. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – spending a minimum of one day each month working from the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).
As a Data Engineer at Co-op, you’ll collaborate with the wider team and use coding languages such as Python and SQL to solve complex data problems and optimise outcomes across our Food Retail, Funeralcare, and Insurance business areas. If you can bring us the passion, curiosity, and problem-solving skills that we’re looking for, we can offer you the opportunity to build your career and provide data solutions that bring value to millions of our colleagues, customers, and member-owners.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and run enterprise data solutions within our data platform, building automation and quality into everything we do
- Hands-on development of data pipelines using technologies and programme languages such as PySpark and SQL
- Help to develop and implement our data architecture and engineering roadmap across our data teams
- Collaborate with partners across the wider Co-op to build an understanding of their data problems and design solutions that satisfy business needs
This role would suit people who have
- Significant experience working as a Data Engineer and delivering modern data architectures within a multi-disciplinary engineering team(s)
- Experience using coding languages such as Python and SQL
- Experience using Data Vault Modelling & Kimball Data Modelling
- Good problem-solving skills, with a natural curiosity for emerging technologies and a desire to explore how these could be used to solve all kinds of complex modern business problems
We know that some candidates are less likely to apply for a role if they don’t meet all the criteria in the job description. At Co-op, we're committed to building a diverse and inclusive working environment, so if you'd like to apply for this role but your experience doesn't quite meet every point, we'd still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or other roles we have available.
Why Co-op?
As a Co-op colleague, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- YuLife – an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands
Building an inclusive work environment
At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.
Tags: Architecture Business Intelligence Databricks Data pipelines Engineering Pipelines PySpark Python SQL
Perks/benefits: Career development Competitive pay Flex hours Insurance Salary bonus
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