Job title: Data Engineer
Location: Cardiff or London / Hybrid (1-2 days a month)
We are a lending and technology company with a clear vision: to be The Funding Platform for the Future of Work. Our embedded payment solution empowers the new world of work. This means our customers can draw funds as and when they need them to pay their workers while waiting for end clients to pay them on their own terms.
We are a 150 strong FinTech with offices in Cardiff and London and now are on the lookout for a new Data Engineer to join our team.
We are currently re-positioning the data team internally to be more innovation focused so there is a great opportunity to push the company forward in this role.
Role Summary:
You would be working closely with our Senior Data Engineer across FiveTran, DBT and Snowflake all hosted in Azure. You would support the ingest and transformation of data for analysis by our teams of analytics engineers and data analysts. Python experience for managing data pipelines is essential and ideally you will have been using some, or all, of these toolkits, or equivalents, for a few years.
As we are a small data community there is always an ask to support across the data and product landscape which includes: dabbling with AI, securing external data feeds and investigating innovative data-focused product initiatives such as complex financial products for our customers.
Key Skills:
We are open to all backgrounds and experience levels for the role, if you don’t think you meet all the criteria below, please do still reach out.
- We aren’t expecting you to be a finance expert – we are more interested in those transferable data skills.
- We are looking for someone with 2-5 years’ experience who is keen on working in a fast-paced environment where you will be able to see a real impact of the work you do every week.
- We are looking for someone with a confident Python background for data ingestion and manipulating structured and unstructured data through APIs
- Confident and experienced with SQL – doesn’t need to be Snowflake although that’s what you’ll be using here.
- If you are already familiar with DBT that’s great too, but not essential – the more exposure you’ve had to data modelling the better.
What will you get in return?
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays
- Private medical insurance with Bupa
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Techscheme with Apple and Currys PC World
- Cyclescheme
- Working with latest technologies and leading SaaS providers
- Eye care vouchers with Specsavers
- 50% discounted gym membership
- 50% off mobile apps (Calm, Duolingo, Audible, Les Mills)
- 2 days charity leave per year
- You’ll work for a company that is passionate about personal development and a strong community focussed culture
Sound interesting?
If your answer is ‘yes’ then click apply to find out more!
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the interview process, please let our Talent Acquisition Partner (Alex Morrell) know and we'd be happy to help!
We know that diverse teams are strong teams. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture and are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing all our employees
Please note: All successful applicants who are offered a role at Sonovate will be required to pass background screening checks before starting with us. These checks will include National ID Checks, Right to Work, Employment References, Adverse Financial History, Criminal Record, Global Sanctions, Bankruptcy checks. Our Talent Acquisition team will be able to run you through these in detail at the early stage of your application.
