Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer - UK Wide - Senior Data Engineer

Our client have a simple and bold mission! To use technology and improve the life of the end user by making public services better.

They believe this can happen best when their own team represents the society that actually uses the services they build. This business continue to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, encouraging people from all walks of life to apply for all roles across their tech teams.

As a Senior Data Engineer within this business, you will be a valued person enabling organisations to become data-driven and data-led as a part of a high-calibre Data team, who’s mission it is to enable data driven services to drive positive outcomes for UK citizens.


The role
As a Senior Data Engineer you will be responsible or designing and developing data processing and data persistence software components for solutions which handle data at scale. Working in agile teams, Senior Data Engineers provide strong development leadership and take responsibility for significant technical components of data systems . You will work within a multi-skilled agile team to design and develop large-scale data processing software to meet user needs in demanding production environments.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Working to develop data processing software primarily for deployment in Big Data technologies. The role encompasses the full software lifecycle including design, code, test and defect resolution.
• Working with Architects and Lead Engineers to ensure the software supports non-functional needs.
• Collaborating with colleagues to resolve implementation challenges and ensure code quality and maintainability remains high. Leads by example in code quality.
• Working with operations teams to ensure operational readiness
• Advising customers and managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of user stories and user journeys.
• Coaching and mentoring team members.

Tech requirements:

• Strong software development experience in either Java, Scala, or Python
• Software development experience with data-processing platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks.
• Experience of developing substantial components for large-scale data processing solutions and deploying into a production environment
• Proficient in SQL and SQL extensions for analytical queries
• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT data processing pipelines and design patterns
• Aware of key features and pitfalls of distributed data processing frameworks, data stores and data serialisation formats
• Able to write quality, testable code and has experience of automated testing
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment techniques

Bonus Points for :

• Experience of performance tuning
• Experience of data visualisation and complex data transformations
• Experience with steaming and event-processing architectures including technologies such as Kafka and change-data-capture (CDC) products
• Expertise in continuous improvement and sharing input on data best practice

Senior Data Engineer - UK Wide - Senior Data Engineer