Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer

Reporting to: Data Engineering Manager

Location: UK remote

Liberis is transforming business finance. We use the latest technology to make it simple and flexible for small businesses to secure funding. Since our inception we have helped more than 15,000 small businesses access over £390 million in funding. We believe that small businesses are the economic lifeblood of local communities, yet they continue to be underserved by traditional banks and financial services organisations. We are committed to supporting them by: 

• Offering simple, fair finance to small businesses to help them thrive 
• Providing easy access to flexible funding through our innovative technology platform 
• Empowering our partners with finance solutions to increase the lifetime value of their small business customers.  

We are in a very exciting period of growth, both within the UK and internationally, with teams based in London, Nottingham, USA and Scandinavia. As we continue to grow we are looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join us to reshape business finance and continue to support our partners and customers in the underserved SME market.  

We are proud to have been included in The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 as one of the 100 fastest growing FinTechs in the UK for two years running.  

The team behind the technology

Technology is at the heart of Liberis’ growth and as part of the tech team you will have a big part to play in achieving our mission: To give every business access to funding. In doing so we strive to be the best in class, not only in how we achieve our mission technologically, but also in providing our customers and partners an optimal user journey and integration experience. 

We are scaling up our Data estate at Liberis and there are exciting times ahead. We're looking at new cloud data platforms like snowflake, creating a new data as a service strategy and approaches like DataOps. 

This is an amazing time to join and you'll have the opportunity to create architectures, practices, standards and much more in the right way from the ground up. 

We are an agile team that has proven to be fully equipped to deal with the recent major shift in working structure and environment, meaning we can support remote or part-remote working and trust our colleagues to take ownership for their role. Therefore we encourage flexibility and finding a working structure that fits for both you and the team. 

Who are you?

You enjoy the analysis, design and modelling involved with creating new data pipelines and are keen to see them through from inception to completion. Creating well optimised, performant queries is what you do best. Always keen to learn more and improve the ways that users consume data, striving for straight forward, uncomplicated, and useful solutions.

We think you’ll need

• A strong knowledge and substantial working experience with Microsoft Azure Data Engineering Toolset including administration and security
• An ability to create, implement and optimise T-SQL queries and stored procedures
• A proven track record in data warehouse design and delivery
• Demonstrable ability to design, implement and use different database structures with particular focus on cloud-based data services such as Azure, Snowflake.
• Experience in building ETL/ ELT data pipelines and use of DevOps (CI/ CD) concepts to test, schedule, and deploy to a production environment.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and data streaming.
• Excellent communicator & fluent in English
• You can analyse new requirements and translate into technical ones.
• Experience in Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) would be beneficial

What will you be doing here?

• Designing, developing, and maintaining the estates in Azure Sql databases / snowflake, including the ETL/ELT processes to load data to those databases.
• You’ll be a valued member of the Data Engineering team working with stakeholders to solve complex business problems and enable better decision making
• Contributing to the architectural governance set by the Data Architect to ensure efficiency and scalability

What we can offer you?

Health

• Company wellbeing programme – running club, nutritionist sessions, free fruit and healthy snacks, mental health framework
• Health insurance
• Eyecare vouchers
• Flu jabs

Wealth

• Company pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Performance related bonus
• Financial wellbeing initiatives
• Salary sacrifice schemes for Cycle to Work and Technology purchases
• Season Ticket Loan
• Charitable giving

Lifestyle

• Generous holiday entitlement including an extra 3 days holiday to cover the
  Christmas period  
• Flexible working 
• Team away days 
• Regular company socials 

What happens next?

Think this sounds like the right next move for you? If you’re not completely confident that you fit our exact criteria, get in touch! Humility is a wonderful thing and we are interested in hearing about what you can add to Liberis. You can reach us at talent@liberis.co.uk - we look forward to chatting with you!

Please note that unfortunately Liberis is unable to provide visa sponsorship to candidates without full rights to work within the UK (Tier 2 or Tier 5). This is something we are looking in to and hope to be able to offer this option in the future, though kindly request that candidates only apply if they have full rights to work in the UK.