Data Engineer

Location: Waterloo – Hybrid Working

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent, Grade 4

You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, and technology colleagues to make sure our data infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and future‑ready. You’ll also partner with marketing, digital, and customer teams to ensure data flows seamlessly into the platforms that power great customer experiences. Collaboration is key, and you’ll be part of a community of engineers who share ideas, solve problems together, and set high standards for how we deliver data at Currys.

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• Build and maintain data pipelines capable of processing billions of events daily across batch and streaming systems
  
• Implement infrastructure as code for data platform components, ensuring scalability and reproducibility
  
• Develop monitoring and alerting systems to safeguard data quality and pipeline reliability
  
• Optimise data processing jobs for performance and cost efficiency
  
• Partner with product teams to deliver new data features and capabilities
  
• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines for data applications and infrastructure
  
• Troubleshoot production issues, applying permanent fixes to stop repeat problems
  
• Contribute to shared engineering standards and best practices
  

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• Strong experience building production‑grade data pipelines at scale
  
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with hands‑on use of data processing frameworks
  
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) and containerisation technologies
  
• Knowledge of streaming technologies and event‑driven architectures
  
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation)
  
• Understanding of DataOps principles and tools
  
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
  
• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or similar platforms
  
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  
• Cloud certifications are beneficial; DevOps or data engineering certifications are also a plus
  

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• Company Pension
  
• Company Bonus
  
• Private Medical
  

Join our team and we’ll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on‑going training and skills for life. Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we’re committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email and we’ll do our best to help.