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Senior Data Engineer

Nestpensions
City of London
4 days ago
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Role Overview

If you are a natural collaborator and a creative problem solver - this position might be for you! We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data team and be a part of Nest's transformation to use its data and insight to drive decision making.


You’ll work closely with stakeholders to develop, test, and maintain data products and solutions that align with their requirements. You’ll be helping to develop and maintain a cloud-based data and analytics platform on Azure and help end-users of every level integrate their workflows between this and other platforms, including AWS-based solutions.


You’ll combine data from different sources, and build data pipelines to transform and organise raw data into formats and structures that can be easily used for business intelligence, visualisations and dashboards, deep dive analysis, and long term forecasting/modelling.


To be successful in this position you will have the following skills, competencies and experience:


You’re a natural collaborator and a creative problem solver who knows how to gather requirements and manage a backlog of work. You know what a data-driven organisation looks like, and you can proactively identify opportunities to improve how we deliver usable data products to our stakeholders.


The minimum requirement for this role are:



  • Strong understanding of data warehousing, data governance, and data quality management
  • Experience of data provision for a variety of different users and use cases
  • Experience of developing data governance frameworks, strategy, and policy
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Hands on experience with code management tools such as Git and DevOps
  • Familiarity with data architectures, data technology and data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau

Please download a full job description to see a full person specification and role responsibilities.


Flexible and agile working


Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):



  • hybrid of office and home working
  • reduce or vary working hours
  • reduce or vary the days worked
  • work from home (or a different location)

For more information about our recruitment process.


Directorate/Department Overview

Nest is at the beginning of a transformation to use its data and insight to drive decision making, and Data, Analytics and Customer Insight is leading how we do it: putting our customers at the heart of our work and helping colleagues to understand and use our data. Our work enables Nest to continually learn, improve how we work and create value so that we can deliver a better retirement for millions.


The directorate includes:



  • Business Intelligence – starting with the data at source, delivering lovely data visualisations to make Nest’s data intuitive to understand
  • Customer insight – putting our customers at the heart of Nest – understanding their needs through empathy, research, surveys, and digital insight
  • Data – planning and delivering how we manage high quality data as an enterprise, making it easy for BI, analysis and modelling to happen and be automated
  • Partnership leads – working with our new outsourced customer experience provider to make sure the right data & insight flows between the organisations from 2023
  • Data strategy – working on Nest’s data literacy, data governance, and a strategy for how we can all collaborate to make our data a really useful shared asset for Nest
  • Analytics – taking all our data and creating value for the organisation – understanding our customer and our business, and doing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis and modelling to help Nest to make decisions

If you love data and insight, and you’d like to help us on this journey, come and join us.


Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country. Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.


Diversity, Equity and Inclusion


Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status.


We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.


Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme. We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications. Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.


If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: .


£82,000 to £88,000 (depending on experience)


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