AWS Data Engineer Support | S2 | Data Centre of Excellence

Santander
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AWS Data Engineer Support | S2 | Data Centre of Excellence

Country: United Kingdom

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We have an exciting opportunity for an AWS Data Engineer Support to join our team of analysts to create the data and insights which support the functional areas of the bank.

You'll play a key roleunderstanding the types of models and data frameworks that support the business strategies around our data assets. This will require excellent communication skills, functional awareness and an excellent analytical capability.

The difference you'll make:

  • Driving and maintaining our AWS-hosted solutions
  • Engaging in the design, development and maintenance of systems
  • Ensuring stable deployment, debugging and execution of various initiatives
  • Collaborating with others and analysing to source and build understanding of relevant data
  • Working in an agile manner, ensuring the outputs required are in line with stakeholder expectations and delivered on-time

What you'll bring:

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

  • Experience developing, testing, and deploying data pipelines, data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts using ideally AWS services such as S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Kinesis, and Lambda
  • Understanding of the principles behind designing and implementing data lake, lake house and/or data mesh architecture
  • Problem solving skill with basic knowledge of the change management process
  • Demonstrates understanding of technical models and their connectivity with business practices and operations
  • Basic knowledge of governance and compliance policies, standards, and procedures required to fulfil role e.g. data security and records management

It would also be nice for you to have:

  • Degree/qualification in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Willingness to learn new technologies, tools, and methodologies in a rapidly evolving field of data management and analytics
  • Clear and effective communication skills to interact with team members, stakeholders and end users conveying technical concepts in a comprehensible manner
  • Skills across the following data competencies:
    • SQL (AWS Athena/Hive/Snowflake)
    • Hadoop/EMR/Spark/Scala
    • Data structures (tables, views, stored procedures)
    • Data Modelling - star/snowflake Schemas, efficient storage, normalisation
    • Data Transformation
    • DevOps - data pipelines
    • Controls - selection and build
    • Reference and metadata management

What else you need to know:

This 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 12 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.

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 salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

  • £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits.
  • Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
  • We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don't contribute yourself. We'll pay in up to 12.5% of salary if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
  • 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5 years service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
  • Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP.
  • 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.
  • 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more.
  • Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including:
    • medical insurance, dental insurance, and health assessments.
  • Share in Santander's success by saving or investing in our share plans.
  • Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships.
  • 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.

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next:

If this sounds like a role you're interested in, then please apply.

If there's anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it's a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we're available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at or call .

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