Job Description
About The Role
This is a critical leadership role responsible for shaping and evolving Halfords’ data engineering capability at a pivotal point in its journey. You will lead teams that design, build and operate the data platforms and services that underpin analytics, BI and data products. More importantly, you will simplify and evolve a complex, mixed data landscape into a modern, scalable and trusted data platform.
Working closely with the Director of Data, AI and Analytics, you will define the engineering direction, set standards and guide the transition from legacy and fragmented environments towards a more unified, future-ready architecture, with Databricks at its core. This is not a role focused purely on governance or theory. It requires someone who can bring clarity to complexity, make pragmatic decisions and lead teams through real-world change, balancing modern engineering practices with the realities of an evolving estate.