Data Engineer

SAGA PLC
Folkestone
2 days ago
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Role Overview

This role is for a hands‑on Data Engineer to join our growing team working across the Single Customer View (SCV) and Snowflake Data Platform. You'll work throughout the full data engineering lifecycle, collaborating with a range of business units and embedding governance controls. Our data team come together for one day a week on site in Folkestone, while the rest of the role is remote.


Responsibilities

  • Consult with the business to identify data sources, usage requirements and refresh rates to gather build requirements
  • Develop and support the SCV using Snowflake, data lake technologies and related tooling
  • Collaborate within cross‑functional squads to design and build data platform components
  • Ensure development adheres to Data Governance and InfoSec standards
  • Test, monitor and resolve issues across data flows and ingestion routines
  • Produce clear documentation for data ingestion and transformation processes
  • Contribute to CI/CD design and support release coordination, understanding dependencies
  • Advise on and contribute to project delivery planning for data engineering initiatives
  • Promote adoption of the SCV platform and identify opportunities to optimise and automate processes
  • Communicate progress, risks and issues effectively with stakeholders and technical teams

Qualifications

  • 1–2 years of experience as a Data Engineer, including strong hands‑on experience with T‑SQL
  • Experience working with Snowflake or similar cloud‑based data platforms
  • Solid SQL database expertise (e.g. SQL Server, Snowflake or similar)
  • Experience with Python for data engineering tasks
  • Practical experience with data ingestion, processing and storage concepts
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps (or similar)
  • Experience using workflow/orchestration tools such as Talend (or equivalent)
  • Confident working with stakeholders, probing beyond initial requests and translating business requirements into effective data solutions
  • Strong communication and technical presentation skills
  • Proactive, solutions‑focused, and comfortable working in an agile, fast‑paced environment

About Saga

Saga is a UK‑based provider of products and services to people aged over 50, offering cruises, holidays, insurance, personal finance products and a magazine. We support an inclusive culture that encourages innovation and professional growth.


Benefits

  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Option to purchase additional leave – 5 extra days
  • Pension scheme matched up to 10%
  • Company performance‑related annual bonus – up to 5%
  • Life assurance policy on joining – 4× salary
  • Wellbeing programme
  • Colleague discounts on cruises, holidays and insurance
  • Reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Grandparents leave
  • Income protection
  • Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform


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