About Iceland
Iceland is a unique British business, focused on frozen food, innovation, convenience and value. We are currently one of the fastest growing supermarket brands in the UK.
Iceland's history of innovation is an impressive one, from being the first supermarket to remove artificial colourings and flavourings, the first to remove GM ingredients from our own label products and the first supermarket to offer a nationwide home shopping service. We are also championing green initiatives to help reduce plastic and food waste. Iceland are never afraid to pioneer new initiatives and try new ways to deliver an outstanding offering to our customers.
It is no different in our I.T. department. We have made huge changes in our technical landscape over the last few years with an enormous push to move our compute into the cloud to help deliver innovative, scalable line of business applications. This evolution is still happening as we utilise more and more cloud native functionality and find ever more efficient and scalable ways to deliver solutions to our colleagues.
We collaborate closely with Microsoft on Application Architecture, Design and infrastructure, as well as utilising Microsoft learn to educate our teams, who have the opportunity to gain official Microsoft certifications along the way.
Our Team
The Software Engineering team are well established at Iceland. We've delivered software solutions across many parts of the business and are a key function in delivering Iceland's future. Iceland has a fairly unique stance when assessing technical solution requirements. We will generally lean towards writing in-house solutions rather than buy off-the-shelf. This ensures we can deliver a highly tailored solution that is fit for our purpose. This has led to a need to expand the team as we continue to increase our portfolio of solutions developed by the team.
The roadmap is an exciting mixture of greenfield projects and continuous improvement, upgrading our existing estate of applications to the latest technologies and architecture. There's a wealth of experience within the team and there's always someone willing to offer their support and knowledge.
The team has grown significantly over recent years and as a result we've reorganised ourselves into smaller agile squads which each manage their own workstream and champion the business domains they work with.
Applications developed by the team are used through-out our business by all of our 30,000+ colleagues, so scalability and resilience are key to everything we do. Continuous integration and deployment have been fully adopted to automate code releases which gives our team more confidence when releasing code into production environments.
What you can expect from us
- A collaborative and informal environment.
- Managers and squad members who invest in your professional and personal growth.
- Passionate and imaginative technical teams to work and collaborate with.
- A forward-thinking leadership team that puts confidence in you and gives you the autonomy to deliver what the business needs.
- We encourage new ideas to help keep us moving in the right direction and have design authority meetings to give you the chance to excite us with your ideas.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Use Power BI to create interactive reports, dashboards, and visualizations.
- Design and develop robust, efficient, and scalable data models.
- Create and maintain ETL pipelines to extract data from various sources, transform it, and load it into our data models.
- Mentor and support more junior members of the squad.
- Research new tools and techniques and challenge the status quo.
- Optimise data loading processes for performance and reliability.
- Utilise our in-house Power BI Embedded application to share reports and dashboards with the business.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand reporting requirements and translate them into effective BI solutions.
- Work closely with your agile squad of developers, BA's and testers to collaborate on solution development.
- Follow our agile way of working by attending stand-up's, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and design and planning sessions.
You should apply if:
- You have a passion for tech and want to learn new things.
- You want experience with modern BI tools, such as MS Fabric and Power BI.
- You enjoy working across the full business intelligence tech stack.
- You love to make things better for people who use your reports.
- You constantly strive for technical excellence.
Make a difference to your career, we expect a lot but you'll get a lot back in return. We will help you grow and develop your career and give you the freedom to show that you really care.
Alongside this we can offer you:
- 15% discount in Iceland stores
- 30% discount at Club Individual Restaurants
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Pension (NEST)
- Free onsite parking
- Onsite electric car charging ports
- Subsidised staff restaurant and Costa Coffee
- Christmas vouchers
- Refer a Friend Scheme
- Christmas Savings scheme
- Discounted dry cleaning
- Long service awards