Analytics Implementation Engineer

Analytics Implementation Engineer

Role overview

We are looking for a technically strong Engineer to join our Analytics Implementation team. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics and Marketing teams to translate measurement requirements into data layer specifications and consent-aware tracking.

The team supports high-traffic retail websites and mobile applications. This is a digital analytics implementation role, rather than a reporting analyst or general front-end development role.

Key responsibilities

• Translate measurement requirements from Product, Analytics and Marketing teams into data layer specifications.
• Work with Engineering teams to implement data layer specifications.
• Configure client-side and server-side tags, including third-party tags, in Tealium iQ and Tealium EventStream.
• Write and maintain reusable JavaScript.
• Configure Adobe Analytics eVars, props, success events and processing rules, and maintain the Solution Design Reference (SDR).
• Validate consent-aware tracking end to end.
• Investigate tracking defects and data quality issues.

• Take part in peer reviews of tracking changes and code.

Essential Criteria:

• Strong JavaScript skills: reading, writing, debugging and maintaining reusable code.
• Hands-on tracking implementation with at least one analytics platform, such as Adobe
• Analytics or Google Analytics.
• Experience translating measurement requirements into data layer specifications.
• Proven, hands-on commercial experience with a tag management platform, such as Tealium iQ or Google Tag Manager.
• Debugging and validating tracking with browser developer tools, including network requests and breakpoints.
• Understanding of how customer behaviour data is collected in modern web and mobile applications, including single-page applications.
• Understanding of consent-aware tracking.

• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Criteria:

• Tealium iQ.
• Tealium EventStream and server-side tracking.
• Adobe Analytics implementation and configuration.
• Third-party tags.
• OneTrust or another consent management platform.
• Mobile app tracking with Adobe or Tealium mobile SDKs.
• Tracking Next.js applications.
• Automated testing of tracking.

Technology stack:

The team works primarily with JavaScript, Tealium iQ, Tealium EventStream, Adobe Analytics and OneTrust.

Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).