Data Engineering Lead

Our first shop opened in 1981 in Penzance, selling durable clothing to artists and mariners. Today, we’re a modern, data-enabled omnichannel retailer with a growing international presence. We blend heritage with innovation, designing timeliness clothing made from responsibility sourced fabrics, and using technology to improve how we operate, grow and serve customers.

As we scale in the UK, North America and Europe (primarily through third-part partnerships), we’re investing in data, systems and digital capability to support our people and our growth. It’s an exciting time to join us!

Our Senior Data Engineers play an important role in shaping how data supports the business. You’ll lead the development of a modern, scalable data platform, making sure data is reliable, well organised and ready for reporting, analysis and day to day decision making. By setting clear standards and guiding how data solutions are built, you’ll help create a consistent and dependable data environment that can grow with the business.

Working closely with teams across data, technology and the wider organisation, you’ll take a collaborative approach to improving how data is delivered and used. You’ll also lead and support a team of Data Engineers, helping them grow while staying hands on with technical decisions and problem solving, ensuring the team delivers high quality work in a fast moving environment.

Please note this role is based remotely within the UK, with occasional travel to our Cornwall head offices.

You’ll help us by

Leading the design and development of data pipelines, models, and data products

Setting and maintaining engineering standards, including coding, testing, and documentation

Shaping the overall data platform architecture and guiding its evolution

Ensuring data is reliable, accurate, and available when needed

Working closely with analysts to deliver data that supports insight and decision-making

Collaborating with support teams to maintain platform stability and resolve issues

Identifying opportunities to improve performance, reduce manual work, and optimise costs

Planning and prioritising engineering work across both day-to-day operations and long-term projects

Coaching and developing Data Engineers to build team capability

Supporting data governance, security, and best practices across all engineering work

The skills you’ll be sharing with the team

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics/Statistics) or equivalent professional experience, with strong grounding in programming, data, and cloud technologies.

Proven leadership of data engineering workstreams delivering enterprise-grade pipelines and analytics-ready data models at scale.

End-to-end Azure data platform build experience (e.g., ADF, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Synapse/SQL), with demonstrated reliability, performance tuning, and cost optimisation.

Strong pattern-driven engineering capability, including the design and adoption of reusable standards across coding, CI/CD, testing, and observability.

Advanced data modelling expertise across lakehouse/medallion layers and dimensional (star/snowflake) approaches, producing trusted, high-quality datasets.

Clear ownership of production data services, accountable for stability, timely refreshes and root cause resolution in alongside service and operations teams.

Excellent stakeholder, vendor, and cross-functional collaboration skills (both internally and externally), translating business needs into well-sequenced engineering delivery and holding partners to agreed technical standards and SLAs.

Strong communicator and influencer, able to clearly explain complex technical concepts, guide decision-making and manage stakeholders at all levels.

Demonstrated mentoring and coaching capability, providing hands-on technical leadership, code reviews, design guidance, and skills uplift within teams.

Highly organised, resilient, and accountable, able to balance BAU stability with delivery deadlines, make sound trade-offs under pressure, and own outcomes end to end.

Why we hope you’ll love working with us:

The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us.

As well as doing everything we can to support your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:

Salary: up to £60,000 depending on experience (Band 3)

34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service

Attractive 50% employee discount

Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package

Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP

Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support

Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions

Life assurance programme

Enhanced family leave policies

Flexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approach

Learning and Development opportunities

Do Good Things with our two days per year paid volunteering opportunities

Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion & Belonging Network

100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub

At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.

We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives - diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk

Closing date for applications is 27th April, however our roles can close earlier so we would recommend applying as soon as you are able.

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