Senior Data Engineer

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12 months ago
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Job Title:

Senior Data Engineer

Reports To:

Data and Reporting Manager

Salary:

£85,000 DOE


Your Role


  • Work closely with the CTO & the Data and Reporting Manager to define and implement the short & the long-term strategies around Data & MI reports.
  • Communicate effectively with internal customers and third parties.
  • Analyse both large and complex reporting requirements.
  • Collaborate effectively with Product Owners, Developers, Designers, DevOps Engineers, and the wider business.
  • Hands-on development of MI & BI reports for the various business units.
  • Work with four other Data Engineers / Reporting Developers, and the Data and Reporting Manager.
  • Support, mentor and help the more junior members of the team.
  • Test and cross validate reports for accuracy and integrity.
  • Perform regular, technical reviews of your team’s work.
  • Analyse and recommend enhancements to the MI reports, processes, and standards.
  • Assist with resolution of support issues.


Requirements


  • 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or on a similar role.
  • Extensive experience with SQL, Amazon Redshift & ideally MySQL.
  • Extensive experience with visualisation tools, ideally with Amazon QuickSight.
  • Experience with AWS Glue and the ability to write Python scripts, e.g. for ETL.
  • Excellent data modelling skills.
  • Experience developing ETL & ELT processes from multiple data sources & types.
  • Experience in dashboard design and development.
  • Experience working in a collaborative Agile environment.
  • Mentoring skills for the less experienced members of the team.
  • Practical experience with JIRA & Confluence.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Self-motivated, proactive, independent thinker, with a “can do” mentality.
  • Team player.
  • Inquisitive with a desire to learn and use new technologies.
  • Knowledge of SAP Business Objects would be helpful but not necessary – currently in use but in the process of migrating to Redshift & QuickSight.

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