Senior Data Engineer

Internal use only - Grade F

About us

Were the team behind digital retailer Very.

Our purpose helping families get more out of life powers everything we do.

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If youre high-performing ambitious and make the most of every opportunity we want to hear from return youll enjoy heaps of flexibility great perks and benefits and the freedom to be yourself keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.

If you love making a difference youll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers.

About the Role

Youll be a hands-on senior engineer at the heart of our data transformation. You wont just deliver pipelines. Youll shape how we build them how we scale them and how we make them better.

Youll work with modern cloud technologies help evolve our data platform and influence engineering standards across the team. Youll also support and mentor others helping create a strong collaborative engineering culture.

The impact is real. Better data means better customer experiences faster decisions and stronger performance across Very.

Were transforming how data powers Very. This isnt about maintaining what already exists. Its about building what comes next.

Were modernising our entire data platform with cloud-first technology and youll play a key role in shaping it. From improving how we serve millions of customers to enabling smarter decisions across the business your work will directly influence how Very grows and competes.

If you enjoy solving meaningful problems building at scale and helping others raise their game youll feel right at home here.

Day to day you will be working on the following.

• Designing and building scalable reliable data pipelines that power key business decisions
• Shaping our cloud-based data platform improving performance cost and usability
• Taking ownership of solutions from idea through to production and beyond
• Driving improvements in how we build deploy and monitor data products
• Troubleshooting complex data issues and making them disappear for good
• Supporting releases and ensuring everything we ship is stable and observable
• Raising engineering standards through code reviews reusable patterns and best practice
• Coaching and mentoring other engineers helping them grow and succeed
• Collaborating with product platform and engineering teams to deliver meaningful outcomes
• Contributing to technical decisions that improve scalability reliability and speed

About you

Youre someone who enjoys building things that matter and making them better over time.

Youll likely bring:

• Strong experience designing and delivering production-grade data solutions
• Confidence working with cloud technologies AWS is preferred.
• Solid coding skills in languages like Python SQL / Java or Scala
• Experience working with large-scale data platforms data lakes or warehouses
• A good understanding of modern data concepts like Lakehouse ingestion and analytics
• Experience across the full delivery lifecycle from design to support
• A mindset focused on quality simplicity and continuous improvement
• The ability to break down complex problems and explain them clearly
• A natural instinct to support and mentor others

Some of our benefits

• Flexible hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment check out our Glassdoor reviews

• 1000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30 days holiday bank holidays
• LinkedIn Learning access
• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
• Up to 25% discount on

• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be foundon our career site

How to apply

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly and if successful in securing this role you will be required to undertake a credit CIFAS Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken including any unspent criminal convictions.

What happens next

Our talent acquisition team will be in touch if youre successful so keep an eye on your emails! Well arrange a short call to learn more about you as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like were a good match well share your CV with the hiring manager to review. Our interview process is tailored to each role and can be in-person or held remotely.

You can expect a two stage interview process for this position:

1st Stage - 30 Minutes Teams call - likely with our Data Engineering Manager we will then share a Take Home Task.

2nd Stage - A one hour technical interview to discuss your take home test in more detail.

As an inclusive employer please do let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

If youd like to know more about our interviews you can find out here.

Diversity inclusion and equal opportunities

Werebuilding a culture of everyday inclusion and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We dont discriminate based on age disability gender reassignment marriage or civil partnership pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sex or sexual orientation.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply interview or perform a role let us know via Well be happy to support you.

Were proud to be aDisability Confident Committed Employerand have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.

Required Experience:

Senior IC