National AI Awards 2025Discover AI's trailblazers! Join us to celebrate innovation and nominate industry leaders.

Nominate & Attend

Data Engineer (Digital)

Greene King
Burton upon Trent
6 months ago
Applications closed

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Engineer


Company Description

As a Data Engineer (digital) you will act as a pivotal role in advancing the data maturity of the Digital department through owning and delivering the group data engineering roadmap. This role will generate a single digital data data lake with all data accessible for reporting from Power BI and available for analysis / data science via databricks.

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.


Additional Information

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands– so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.Free employee assistance program– mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved onesat our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.Refer a friend –who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!Wagestream– access your wage before payday for when life happens.Retail discounts– Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…


Job Description

Your role as Data Engineer

Collaborate with the data architect(s) to deliver data solutions in line with overall strategy and principles. Collaborate with the digital analytics team to understand the business requirements and needs to ensure data engineer solutions deliver the optimal business return. Collaborate with the Business Intelligence and ETL teams to ensure alignment with data management and transformation logic while also avoiding duplication of effort / work. Own the data engineering roadmap for digital data ensuring delivery of demonstrable value to Greene King. Own the end-to-end data engineering lifecycle from data ingestion to data transformation to data serving for new data sources. Support and input to the development and optimisation of data engineering tools / processes / environments. Own the ongoing maintenance and optimisation of existing data pipelines. Own the documentation of all existing and new data pipelines and processes. Manage the testing of all deployed solutions to ensure all solutions are accurate and fault tolerant. Ensure adherence to all regulation so that data engineering solutions and resulting business usage is compliant. Act as a data steward to review and optimise the data quality across the digital landscape.

What you’ll bring… 

Degree level qualification in a relevant subject e.g. mathematics, statistics, computer science, etc. Extensive professional experience as a Data Engineer in creating scalable data solutions. Significant experience with Azure data lake and Databricks. Significant knowledge of data engineering processes (ELT / ETL, batch, streaming etc). Expert in SQL and other coding languages. Experience with pipelining and engineering digital data e.g. website click data from Google Analytics. Experience with Google Cloud Platform and specifically Big Query. Experience with troubleshooting via logs and building informative logging into pipelines. Deep understanding of data as a product and its value to an organisation. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex and technical subject matter to non-specialists. Experience in a fast-paced multi-brand industry. Strong stakeholder management experience at various levels of an organisation.

#LI-AP1

National AI Awards 2025

Subscribe to Future Tech Insights for the latest jobs & insights, direct to your inbox.

By subscribing, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service.

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

10 AI Recruitment Agencies in the UK You Should Know (2025 Job‑Seeker Guide)

Generative‑AI hype has translated into real hiring: Lightcast recorded +57 % year‑on‑year growth in UK adverts mentioning “machine learning”, “LLM” or “gen‑AI” during Q1 2025. Yet supply still lags. Roughly 18,000 core AI professionals work in the UK, but monthly live vacancies hover around 1,400–1,600. That mismatch makes specialist recruiters invaluable—opening stealth vacancies, advising on salary bands and fast‑tracking interview loops. But many tech agencies sprinkle “AI” on their website without an active desk. To save you time, we vetted 50 + consultancies and kept only those with: A registered UK head office (verified via Companies House). A named AI/Machine‑Learning or Data practice.

AI Jobs Skills Radar 2026: Emerging Frameworks, Languages & Tools to Learn Now

As the UK’s AI sector accelerates towards a £1 trillion tech economy, the job landscape is rapidly evolving. Whether you’re an aspiring AI engineer, a machine learning specialist, or a data-driven software developer, staying ahead of the curve means more than just brushing up on Python. You’ll need to master a new generation of frameworks, languages, and tools shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Welcome to the AI Jobs Skills Radar 2026—your definitive guide to the emerging AI tech stack that employers will be looking for in the next 12–24 months. Updated annually for accuracy and relevance, this guide breaks down the top tools, frameworks, platforms, and programming languages powering the UK’s most in-demand AI careers.

How to Find Hidden AI Jobs in the UK Using Professional Bodies like BCS, IET & the Turing Society

Stop Scrolling Job Boards and Start Tapping the Real AI Market Every week a new headline announces millions of pounds flowing into artificial-intelligence research, defence initiatives, or health-tech pilots. Read the news and you could be forgiven for thinking that AI vacancies must be everywhere—just grab your laptop, open LinkedIn, and pick a role. Yet anyone who has hunted seriously for an AI job in the United Kingdom knows the truth is messier. A large percentage of worthwhile AI positions—especially specialist or senior posts—never appear on public boards. They emerge inside university–industry consortia, defence labs, NHS data-science teams, climate-tech start-ups, and venture studios. Most are filled through referral or conversation long before a recruiter drafts a formal advert. If you wait for a vacancy link, you are already at the back of the queue. The surest way to beat that dynamic is to embed yourself in the professional bodies and grassroots communities where the work is conceived. The UK has a dense network of such organisations: the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS); the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) with its Artificial Intelligence Technical Network; the Alan Turing Institute and its student-driven Turing Society; the Royal Statistical Society (RSS); the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and its Mechatronics, Informatics & Control Group; public-funding engines like UK Research and Innovation (UKRI); and an ecosystem of Slack channels and Meetup groups that trade genuine, timely intel. This article is a practical, step-by-step guide to using those networks. You will learn: Why professional bodies matter more than algorithmic job boards Exactly which special-interest groups (SIGs) and technical networks to join How to turn CPD events into informal interviews How to monitor grant databases so you hear about posts months before they exist Concrete scripts, portfolio tactics, and outreach rhythms that convert visibility into offers Follow the playbook and you move from passive applicant to insider—the colleague who hears about a role before it is written down.