Senior Data Engineer

Here’s what you’ll be doing:
You will be working as part of an international team, driving our class-leading data platform forwards as well as developing greenfield data products to ‘sell’ to the business. You’ll get access to:• a fantastic training and conferences budget • Friday afternoon learning time• a team who will support you to succeed
Reporting into James (our Data Engineering Manager), who’s hands on and interested in pretty much everything technology, you’ll be joining an amazing team of five data engineers. 

As one of our Senior Data Engineers, you’ll:

• build real-time identity stitching and data federation
• work in customer data platformML optimised offline contact management
• be proactive in delivering real-time customer contact decision making process
• use tools and solutions for ingesting, transforming, and consuming data
• be championing data thinking while creating useful systems in a collaborative way for our customers

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Hands-on in building data pipelines
• experienced programming experience in a JVM language (Scala, Kotlin, Java) -
• able to produce Graph Databases
• experienced in data stream processing: Kafka Streams or similar
• experienced with a containerised microservices architecture

(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)
Ready to join us and level up your data engineering skills? Apply today.

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What are the benefits?We support every team member to balance work and life effectively. • remote working - you can balance working remotely and connecting with colleagues in the office • mental health and wellbeing resources - access to counselling and technology to support your mental health • flexible parental leave - we pay six months full pay to the primary caregiver, and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver • paid sabbatical - two weeks off when you’ve been here five years and four weeks off when you’ve been here 10, 15 and 20 years • a dedicated learning platform - the platform lets you balance both work and life goals (including management and leadership programme) • life event leave - an extra day of leave every two years for whatever you want: moving house, welcoming a new pet, or your birthday
We also make sure you’re compensated fairly. • competitive salary - based upon your experience and the market we’re in from day one • annual bonus - the potential to earn a bonus based on business performance • pension - we match what you put into your pension up to five percent • BUPA Private Medical Insurance covering Pre-existing medical conditions • health cash plan - we reimburse your everyday medical expenses • holiday entitlement - 25 days leave, plus bank holidays (you can also use your flexible benefits to get up to five days more!) • life assurance - four times your basic salary • flexible benefits scheme - an allocated allowance to use each year on things like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, up to five days extra holiday, and gym membership.
Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.