{"id":1534456,"url":"https://alion.io/job/the-very-group-senior-data-engineer-2","title":"Senior Data Engineer","company":{"id":5371,"name":"The Very Group","domain":"very.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/the-very-group","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Liverpool, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":85000,"max_usd":160000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":20},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Scala","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Teradata","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-30T17:58:08Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-30","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T19:18:46Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Internal use only - Grade F\nAbout us\nWe’re the team behind digital retailer Very.\nOur purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do.\nAnd we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.\nIf you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers.\nAbout the Role\nYou’ll be a hands-on senior engineer at the heart of our data transformation. You won’t just deliver pipelines. You’ll shape how we build them, how we scale them and how we make them better.\nYou’ll work with modern cloud technologies, help evolve our data platform and influence engineering standards across the team. You’ll also support and mentor others, helping create a strong, collaborative engineering culture.\nThe impact is real. Better data means better customer experiences, faster decisions and stronger performance across Very.\nWe’re transforming how data powers Very. This isn’t about maintaining what already exists. It’s about building what comes next.\nWe’re modernising our entire data platform with cloud-first technology, and you’ll play a key role in shaping it. From improving how we serve millions of customers to enabling smarter decisions across the business, your work will directly influence how Very grows and competes.\nIf you enjoy solving meaningful problems, building at scale and helping others raise their game, you’ll feel right at home here.\nDay to day you will be working on the following.\nDesigning and building scalable, reliable data pipelines that power key business decisions\nShaping our cloud-based data platform, improving performance, cost, and usability\nTaking ownership of solutions from idea through to production and beyond\nDriving improvements in how we build, deploy and monitor data products\nTroubleshooting complex data issues and making them disappear for good\nSupporting releases and ensuring everything we ship is stable and observable\nRaising engineering standards through code reviews, reusable patterns and best practice\nCoaching and mentoring other engineers, helping them grow and succeed\nCollaborating with product, platform and engineering teams to deliver meaningful outcomes\nContributing to technical decisions that improve scalability, reliability and speed\nAbout you\nYou’re someone who enjoys building things that matter and making them better over time.\nYou’ll likely bring:\nStrong experience designing and delivering production-grade data solutions\nDevelop, and maintain Teradata-based data solutions to support enterprise-scale data warehousing and analytics platforms.\nProficient in Teradata utilities such as BTEQ, Fast Load, Multi Load, TPT, and experienced with Viewpoint, TD Stats, and TDWM.\nStrong knowledge of data warehousing concepts, ETL processes, and experience working across large-scale, complex environments.\nConfidence working with cloud technologies, AWS is preferred.\nSolid coding skills in languages like Python, SQL / Java or Scala\nExperience working with large-scale data platforms, data lakes or warehouses\nA good understanding of modern data concepts like Lakehouse, ingestion and analytics\nExperience across the full delivery lifecycle, from design to support\nA mindset focused on quality, simplicity and continuous improvement\nThe ability to break down complex problems and explain them clearly\nA natural instinct to support and mentor others\nSome of our benefits\nFlexible, hybrid working model \nInclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews \n£1000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs \n30 days holiday + bank holidays \nLinkedIn Learning access \nBonus potential (performance and business-related) \nUp to 25% discount on Very.co.uk \nMatched pension up to 6% \nMore benefits can be found on our career site \nHow to apply\nPlease note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions.\nWhat happens next?\nOur talent acquisition team will be in touch if you’re successful so keep an eye on your emails! We’ll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like we’re a good match, we’ll share your CV with the hiring manager to review. Our interview process is tailored to each role and can be in-person or held remotely.\nYou can expect a two stage interview process for this position:\n1st Stage - 30 Minutes Teams call - likely with our Data Engineering Manager, we will then share a Take Home Task.\n2nd Stage - A one hour technical interview to discuss your take home test in more detail.\nAs an inclusive employer please do let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.\nIf you'd like to know more about our interviews, you can find out here.\nDiversity, inclusion and equal opportunities\nWe’re building a culture of everyday inclusion, and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.\nWe want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply, interview, or perform a role, let us know via . We’ll be happy to support you.\nWe’re proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6158,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["E-commerce Platforms"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T17:58:08Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":40,"reasons":["conf:11","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-very-group-senior-data-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-very-group-senior-data-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T20:25:47Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2932,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2068,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}