ASOS

online retailer

SeniorDataEngineer-DataSciencePlatform

London, England, United Kingdom FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior Data Engineer - Data Science Platform at ASOS. Skills: Data Engineering, Data Pipelines, Azure, Databricks, Python, Scala, Spark. Designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines using Python and Scala, leveraging Spark and PySpark within an Azure ecosystem (including Azure Data Factory and Databricks).. Developing and maintaining reusable data engineering templates, frameworks, and tooling to support data teams across ASOS.”

What You'll Achieve.

accelerate delivery and improve the quality and accessibility of data by providing a robust and standardised data platform experience; ensure consistency across diverse product domains; ensure scalable, cost-efficient, and secure data infrastructure on Azure; improving developer experience

Industry & Context.

online retailer

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

experience as a Data Engineer building scalable data platforms, Deep expertise in Azure (ADF, ADLS, Databricks), Proficiency in Python and/or Scala (PySpark/Spark) for large-scale data processing, Hands-on experience with Databricks and Delta Lake, Solid understanding of the end-to-end data lifecycle (ingestion → transformation → serving), Experience with dbt for transformations and Terraform for infrastructure as code, grounding in data modelling, quality, and testing, Experience with monitoring, observability, and performance optimisation, Focus on automation, standardisation, and improving developer experience

Nice to Have

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern data engineering best practices

What You'll Do.

and maintaining scalable data pipelines using Python and Scala

leveraging Spark and PySpark within an Azure ecosystem (including Azure Data Factory and Databricks).

Developing and maintaining reusable data engineering templates

and tooling to support data teams across ASOS.

Driving standardisation and best practices across data ingestion

and serving layers to ensure consistency across diverse product domains.

Enabling teams to deliver high-quality

production-ready datasets by providing guidance

and hands-on technical support.

Implementing and promoting modern data engineering practices — including CI/CD for data pipelines

data quality validation

and metadata management.

Collaborating with stakeholders to understand data requirements and evolving the data platform to meet business needs.

Partnering with Platform Engineering

and Security teams to ensure scalable

and secure data infrastructure on Azure.

Optimising data workflows and pipelines for performance

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, and Engineers embedded in product teams; Collaborating with stakeholders; Partnering with Platform Engineering, ML Engineering, and Security teams

Full Job Description

We’re ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world. We exist to give our customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you’re free to be your true self without judgement, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions. But how are we showing up? We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter and we placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer list. Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. Let our Talent team know if you need any adjustments throughout the process in whatever way works best for you. As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll focus on designing and implementing scalable, reusable data pipelines, platform components, and data engineering standards that enable reliable, secure, and high-quality data solutions across the organisation. You’ll work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, and Engineers embedded in product teams such as Forecasting, Recommendations, Marketing, Customer, and Pricing—helping them accelerate delivery and improve the quality and accessibility of data by providing a robust and standardised data platform experience. What you’ll be doing * Designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines using Python and Scala , leveraging Spark and PySpark within an Azure ecosystem (including Azure Data Factory and Databricks). * Developing and maintaining reusable data engineering templates, frameworks, and tooling to support data teams across ASOS. * Driving standardisation and best practices across data ingestion, transformation, and serving layers to ensure consistency across diverse product domains. * Enabling teams to deliver high-quality, production-ready datasets by providing guidance, patterns, and hands-on technical support. * Implementing and promoting modern data engineering practices — including CI/CD for data pipelines, dat

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