Data Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design and implement enterprise-grade systems that facilitate digital transformation.

• Pipeline Architecture: Create, develop, and manage efficient ETL/ELT pipelines to process large datasets and high-frequency data streams.

• Enterprise Warehousing: Spearhead the architectural design and enhancement of our enterprise data warehouse, ensuring scalability and performance.

• Modern Transformation: Oversee our data transformation layer utilizing Dataform (preferred) or dbt to orchestrate intricate and reliable workflows.

• Quality & Deployment: Establish automated testing frameworks and deploy scalable services with Docker and Kubernetes to maintain operational integrity.

• Stakeholder Partnership: Serve as a strategic collaborator with Product and Engineering teams, leading data design sessions to optimize data ingestion and utilization.

• Mentorship & Standards: Elevate technical standards through code reviews, design discussions, and the documentation of best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Technical Mastery: Extensive experience in leading the design of data systems and models.

• Proficient in SQL and Python, demonstrating a strong capability to independently execute complex, production-ready projects.

• In-depth knowledge of dimensional modeling (Kimball) or Data Vault methodologies, crucial for developing scalable enterprise schemas.

• Impact & Scope: Proven history of leading high-impact projects that align with the company's strategic objectives.

• Ability to manage the complete delivery of large-scale features, producing high-quality architectural diagrams and technical documentation.

• Significant experience with modern DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and managing transformation layers at scale.

• Business & Domain Knowledge: Ability to advise senior stakeholders on leveraging Data Engineering to tackle complex business challenges.

• Comfortable leading cross-functional design sessions.

• Leadership & Culture: Foster a data-driven culture by mentoring colleagues and effectively communicating technical successes and challenges to the broader Technology & Product department.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against industry standards and will discuss salary openly in our initial conversation.

• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.

• Flexible working: We operate as a remote-first company.

• Work-life balance: Option for a four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).

• Work from anywhere: Ability to work abroad for up to three weeks, twice a tax year.

• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the opportunity to trade up to five days each year.

• UW discounts: Access to savings on our services and hundreds of rewards and discounts through Perkbox.

• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).

• Family first: Policies designed to support you and your family.

• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.

• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of employment.

• Growth: A dedicated budget for learning and development, along with bi-annual promotion cycles.

• Inclusion: Join belonging groups that contribute to shaping our culture.

• Events: Participate in company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.