Senior Data Engineer

As our new Senior Data Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in bridging engineering best practices with our data domain.

Our team is committed to transforming data into actionable insights, aiding decision-making processes and enhancing our products. Your expertise will drive advancements in our data engineering practices, leading the development of new data products with a focus on data backends, infrastructure, and DataOps.

If you thrive on enhancing infrastructure scalability, and designing sophisticated data architectures, then this role is perfect for you!

During your first 12 months, you will:

Build and Launch our new event-driven data operational architecture.
Successfully enhance the reliability and scalability of the data platform infrastructure.
Strengthen the data privacy and data retention foundations, ensuring compliance with the latest regulations.
Achieve measurable improvements in platform cost efficiency and scalability.
 

What you’ll do

Design Data Architecture: Spearhead the development of an event-driven operational data architecture.

Optimise Infrastructure: Ensure the scalability and reliability of our data pipelines and infrastructure. Advance Data Privacy: Strengthen our data privacy and retention frameworks, ensuring compliance and security. Platform Optimisation: Streamline our data platform for enhanced cost efficiency and scalability.

Requirements

We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t consider you have all the skills required!

Proven experience with cloud data infrastructure on GCP or AWS, preferably GCP.
Expertise in event-driven data integrations and click-stream ingestion.
Proven ability in stakeholder management and project leadership
Proficiency in SQL, Python, PySpark
Solid background in data pipeline orchestration, data access, and retention tooling.
Demonstrable impact on infrastructure scalability and data privacy initiatives.
A collaborative spirit, innovative problem-solving skills, and excellent communication abilities.

Benefits

A competitive salary
Annual learning budget – with your learning budget, you can pay for learning experiences to support your progression.
BUPA health insurance
Discounted dental through BUPA
Discounted gym membership through BUPA
OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year
Hybrid working from home (approximately 1-2 days in the office a week)
Pension scheme
Motorway car leasing scheme – lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
Enhanced parental leave – We offer enhanced maternity pay (26 weeks of full pay) and enhanced paternity pay (4 weeks of full pay) to eligible employees.
Workplace nursery scheme
Top spec MacBook Pro and peripherals
Regular social events
Cycle to work scheme

Equal opportunities statement
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where people can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

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