- Location–London, England
- Company–John Lewis Partnership
- Job Type–Hybrid, Full-time
- Experience level–Senior level
About the job
At a Glance
- Flexible Working: We have opportunities at both our John Lewis Head Office in Pimlico, London and Waitrose Head Office in Bracknell, Berkshire.
- We have a blended hybrid approach of working from our offices and a home/remote UK location. You are contracted to a Partnership office location. If you choose to work remotely you should be aware that from time to time, you will need to come into the office.
- Salary range: £57,600 – £92,400
- Contract type: Permanent
What’s the role about?
As the UK’s most successful omni-channel retailer, e-commerce is a key part of our business – we run two of the busiest websites in the UK, driving a significant proportion of our sales.
Our engineering practice includes 60+ teams, working on everything from Cloud platforms to mobile apps, from e-commerce functionality to machine learning.
Internally this role is known as Product Engineer (L6)
What You Will Be Doing
This is an opportunity to work as a Senior Platform Engineer within a cross-functional Agile development team building our Partnership Data Platform (PDP) on Google Cloud. You will be working collaboratively with other highly skilled Engineers creating and improve this cloud-based platform that is used by the Data teams building complex, mission-critical solutions.
The vision for PDP is to embed data-driven decision-making and analytics at scale, across the Partnership. We recognise the importance of data and are backing a significant investment in developing the platform.
The team takes a “paved road” approach to provide features that benefit the many Engineers that utilise the platform, by evolving its capabilities and tailoring them to both Our Business and Engineering needs.
As a Senior Engineer you will have responsibility for the development approach and will strongly influence how the platform evolves to meet business needs. You will also use your knowledge of Engineering to support the shaping of new projects and support the professional development of less experienced developers. You will work with a diverse range of technical and non-technical stakeholders which will require strong communication skills.
There are opportunities to become a people manager for your fellow engineers if that is something that appeals to you.
Ideal candidates will have excellent Software Engineering skills with a track record of working in teams delivering flexible cloud-based infrastructure solutions that are scalable, secure and performant. Successful candidates will have a passion for using technology to deliver outstanding and innovative solutions.
Essential Skills
- Experience working with Google Cloud Platform or another major cloud provider.
- Managing infrastructure as code, with a Software Engineering mindset.
- Use of languages such as Python to automate configuration and extend platform services.
- A solid grounding in designing and building systems for reliability and security.
- Well-versed in the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery practice, and experience of using supporting tools to help it work effectively for many Engineers.
- Comfortable working within an Agile development team and open to pair programming.
What Else You Could Bring
As this role will involve working specifically with our Data Platform, the use of some of the following languages and tools would be very helpful:
- Familiarity with SQL
- Terraform
- DBT
- The Snowflake Data Platform
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Apache Airflow
- Observability tools – especially those relevant to Data Platforms
- GitLab CI
Where will you be working?
We have opportunities at both our John Lewis Head Office in Pimlico, London and Waitrose Head Office in Bracknell, Berkshire.
We have a blended hybrid approach of working from our offices and a home/remote UK location. You are contracted to a Partnership office location. If you choose to work remotely you should be aware that from time to time, you will need to come into the office.
Benefits Of The John Lewis Partnership
- You will enjoy a 25% discount at John Lewis (electrical items 12%) and a 20% discount at Waitrose
- We have a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)
- Excellent work-life balance, including a focus on well-being, flexible working practices and our marketing-leading equal parenthood leave policy
- Find out more about the benefits of working for the Partnership
Next Steps
- The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to do before the closing date.
- If you are successful following your initial application, the next stages are: a screening telephone call with a recruiter, a technical coding test and virtual interviews.
- You’ll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we’ll be sure to discuss it with you.
- Please note: we sometimes close vacancies early in the event of a large response, so we recommend you apply as early as possible. Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining JLP.
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