Senior Data Engineer

London

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Mintel

Mintel is a global market intelligence agency. We provide market research, industry expertise & data insights to help you make better business decisions faster.

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We’re looking for a talented Senior Data Engineer  - We are open for this position to be fully remote - As long as you are based within the UK 

Our data engineering teams build data tools and pipelines that safely, consistently and efficiently transform and enrich our data. Once enriched, data outputs include data staged for BI tool use, compiled and delivered to clients for custom integrations, or made available for syndicated web site outputs. 

By joining our data engineering team you’ll be helping us to ensure that our analysts and researchers always have the most reliable, up-to-date information at their fingertips.

Why join Mintel? We are the world's leading market intelligence agency and technology underpins our success. We help our clients understand consumers and consumer markets and aspire to provide the market intelligence behind every great business decision. Our technology supports research, analysis, and operations work of Mintel staff and helps us to deliver data, insight and opinion in a compelling way to our clients across the globe.

In this role your would

  • Maintain an understanding of the technical health of systems our teams are responsible for and advocate for improvements to be made.
  • Collaborate with project leads to make sure technical complexities of upcoming work are accounted for in plans.
  • Lead technical design and refinement sessions with teams. This includes, but is not limited to: being prepared on topics in advance; verifying assumptions; suggesting different approaches; being vocal; consolidating consensus; being open-minded; making sure teams are decisive.
  • Support other Engineers and Project leads as they assess and decide on technical approaches and as they work to improve the overall quality of work produced by the team.
  • Collaborate with peers on other teams to outline general and technology-specific best practices and standards.  Help to educate the rest of the team about the agreed-upon standards.
  • Take responsibility for the effectiveness of their team’s quality procedures (e.g. code reviews, test suites).
  • Proactively take steps to understand the architecture of systems that interface with and power your team’s solutions.
  • Collaborate with project leads and managers to assess the overall skill set and health of the team.

What We’re Looking For:

  • 3+ years of backend engineering experience within a commercial setting.
  • Candidates who are able to demonstrate a strong command of Python 
  • Knowledge of databases, preference for cloud databases especially columnar (e.g Redshift, Snowflake etc) 
  • Experience in cloud infrastructure (AWS especially) preferred but not required 

We hope you’ll like our…

  • Culture that supports true collaboration whilst embracing remote working
  • Generous holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy additional holiday
  • Approach to personal development where we encourage individuals to grow and share what they’ve learned
  • Frequent social events, both within the department and across the company
  • A hybrid working model with a blend of home and office working

Women in Technology

Mintel is committed to building and supporting a diverse workforce, providing opportunities for all. 21% of our Engineering team and 27% of our Engineering leaders are women. We are proud to be a signatory of Tech Talent Charter, highlighting our goal of improving diversity within our team and supporting industry-wide improvement. We offer flexible working options and provide support, development and growth opportunities.

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Tags: Architecture AWS Engineering Pipelines Python Redshift Research Snowflake

Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Flex hours Home office stipend Team events

Regions: Remote/Anywhere Europe
Country: United Kingdom
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Category: Engineering Jobs

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