Senior Data Engineer

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SENIOR DATA ENGINEER

UP TO £65,000

BATH


THE COMPANY

Are you ready to shape data systems that power business growth and customer satisfaction? Can you guarantee data accuracy while working with massive datasets?

This multinational food business is helping a wide variety of customers by providing meals conveniently. They are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with expertise in handling large data sets who will guarantee data reliability and quality, which will allow for better analytics and problem resolution.


THE ROLE

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will focus on getting data from operational systems and third parties, and be responsible for making data reliable, consistent and available for analysts.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

  • Looking after the data infrastructure, ensuring data infrastructure is up and available
  • Leading internal development requirements
  • Doing data validation
  • Supporting with data model deployment (Databricks and Pyspark)
  • Extracting from databases and working on cross functional ETLs


SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Senior Data Engineer is someone with great data understanding and experienced handling big datasets. Front-end experience, ability to simplify data sources and build right data models are also important.

Ideally, you will have great expertise working with the following tech stack:

  • SQL
  • Azure
  • SSIS
  • Databricks
  • Pyspark


BENEFITS

The successful Senior Data Engineer will receive the following benefits:

  • £65,000 yearly salary
  • Hybrid work mode with 2 days working from home
  • 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
  • And many more


HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your resume/CV to Joana Alves via the Apply link on this page.

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