Data Engineer

We’re looking for a talented Data Engineer to join our established IT team in Belfast. This role will suit individuals that have 2+ years of backend engineering experience.

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

• Work with an agile development team to implement technical solutions to prepare, process and output data using our Data Platform.
• Take responsibility for your own productivity and the quality of your work, collaborating with business stakeholders on data shape and quality and with your Engineering colleagues on system testing and code quality.
• Contribute to your team’s technical work autonomously and reliably move projects forward.
• Follow engineering and technology-specific best practices and standards as outlined by engineering leads and architects for the team.
• Be active in team or broader department conversations as we work together to assess where we are and improve.

We’re Looking For:

• 2+ 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
• 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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