AWS Data Engineer | S3 | Data Centre of Excellence

Santander
Milton Keynes
4 days ago
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AWS Data Engineer | S | Data Centre of ExcellenceCountry: United Kingdom

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our Data Centre of Excellence as an AWD Data Engineer. The AWS Data engineer will work within a team of analysts to create the data and insights which support the functional areas of the bank.

You’ll use a variety of skills, excellent communication, functional awareness and an extensive analytical capability in understanding the types of models and data frameworks that can support the business strategies around our data assets.

If you’re someone who’s performed a similar role already, this is the perfect opportunity to develop your career.

The difference you’ll make:

Designing, building, and maintaining our AWS Data Estate. This includes S lake formation, Iceburg and extends to our Snowflake platform Designing AWS-based services and capabilities adopting appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology Leading AWS-based service design activities for strategic, large, and complex solution development programmes Supporting the construction of organisational policies, standards, guidelines, and methods for AWS-based service design Identifying and evaluating alternative design options, undertaking cost, resource, and risk assessments Collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

Previous experience developing, testing, and deploying data pipelines, data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts using ideally AWS services such as S, Glue, Athena, EMR, Kinesis, and Lambda Practical knowledge Experience of major operating platforms and their linkage, connectivity functions and issues Cloud Security - Experience/skills of addressing concept issues and endpoint security techniques Experience of resolving problems associated with data governance, using data governance tools Working knowledge of data governance principals to engages in the design of a data governance projects Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, SQL, Spark, and Unix shell scripting, including AWS CLI

It would also be nice for you to have:

An educational background in Cloud Engineering, or Computer Science, and/or equivalent work experience supported by professional certifications/licences such as AWS certifications, Developer (Associate), Database (Speciality), Data Analytics (Speciality.) Appreciation or involvement in how to select, use and improve encryption technologies for the organisation, ensuring the privacy of individuals or organisations Knowledge/experience of designing and building frameworks for monitoring and managing cloud operations

What else you need to know:

This Permanent role is based in Unity Place – Milton Keynes.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Application process 

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be :–

st Stage – Technical Interview – this will a min technical interview with one of the team

nd Stage – A one-hour formal interview where we will ask both technical and competency-based questions. This can be done virtually or face to face depending on your situation.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you. 

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus. We put % of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to .% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer. days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to days after yrs service, with the option to purchase up to contractual days per year. £, car allowance per year. Company funded individual private medical insurance. Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments. Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover. Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.  As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

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