Platform Specialist

Job Summary

We’re building a modern, enterprise‑scale data platform that helps our Retail business make smarter, data‑driven decisions every day. Our Data Operations team enables this by designing, running and continuously improving the Retail & Analytics Data Hub (RADH), a strategic data platform at the heart of analytics and reporting.

We’re looking for a Platform Specialist to take technical ownership of RADH and help shape its future. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of platform engineering, data architecture and Snowflake innovation, and who wants to influence how data platforms evolve at scale.

Responsibilities

• Leading the ongoing development of the Retail & Analytics Data Hub as a strategic enterprise data platform
• Introducing and optimising Snowflake capabilities to improve performance, scalability and reliability
• Acting as a Snowflake subject matter expert, shaping best practice across the organisation
• Improving automation through CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and orchestration frameworks
• Embedding observability across the platform, including monitoring, alerting, lineage and data quality
• Implementing and influencing robust governance, security and access controls in partnership with Information Security
• Collaborating with engineers, analysts and product teams to support platform adoption and delivery
• Optimising platform costs while maintaining agreed service levels for availability, performance and data quality

Qualifications

• Strong experience in data platform or data engineering roles within cloud environments
• Deep hands‑on knowledge of Snowflake and its core features and capabilities
• Confidence working with SQL and modern data engineering tooling and patterns
• Experience designing or supporting enterprise‑scale data platforms and architectures
• Understanding of data governance, security, access management and compliance
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• A collaborative mindset with a desire to support and enable others
• Curiosity, adaptability and an interest in continuous improvement and emerging technologies

Benefits

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

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