Data Engineer (AWS)

Company Description

We're a continually growing, innovative and multi-award-winning wholesaler and distributor of communications, cloud, billing and hardware products and services. 

We work in a fast-paced and exciting industry, where we have forged strategic partnerships and relationships with the UK's top telcos, networks, and vendors, including BT, TTB, Vodafone, Virgin Media O2, EE, CityFibre, Sophos, Microsoft and Samsung.

As a Channel-only business, we never sell directly to the end-user. Instead, we serve a market of independent resellers, which we proudly refer to as our partners. 

We offer our partners a market-leading and comprehensive product portfolio, intuitive portals and platforms and a passionate team of industry experts.

We make a complex industry as simple as possible for our partners, enabling them with a commercial platform to sell the latest technologies and solutions to the resilient UK SMB market.

We have huge aspirations to challenge our industry and what we do, and we continuously dream big for the future. As a team of over 750 people, we're all immensely proud to work for a rapidly expanding company with an incredible culture that puts our team members and partners at the heart of everything we do.

Job Description

• Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 p.a. DOE 
• Location: Home based 

About the Team

The Central Data team has been developed to be the single point of truth about the partner across the total business. Using data lead findings, we can harness the vital power of our data to deliver strong, profitable, and meaningful recommendations and actions that will continue to drive greater revenue for the business and also improved experiences for our partners.

In essence the data team is a centralised place where KPIs can evaluate the variations across the three brands, highlighting the strengths of each and the areas for suggested improvements.

About the Role

As a Data Engineer the role will require to build and maintain cloud data platform and build production-level batch data pipelines on AWS.

The role will require working on building and maintaining complex data pipelines, assemble large and complex datasets to generate business insights and to enable data driven decision making and support the rapidly growing and dynamic business demand for data.

Role responsibilities:

• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
• Manage AWS resources including RDS, S3, Glue, etc.
• Interface with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL (SQL Server, MySQL) and AWS (Glue, Lambda) big data technologies
• Integrating existing and new datasets into current inbound and outbound data pipelines (e.g., via APIs)
• Explore and learn the latest AWS technologies to provide new capabilities and increase efficiency
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
• Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for customers
• Maintain internal reporting platforms/tools (Power BI) including troubleshooting and development
• Interact with internal users to establish and clarify requirements to develop report specifications
• Contribute to the development of the BI tools, skills, culture and impact
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems

Qualifications

Essential:

• Proven experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or related field with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets
• Demonstrable experience with at least one modern programming language (Python, Scala, Java, etc.)
• Experience with data modelling, data warehousing, and building ETL pipelines
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Data Warehousing Experience with Redshift, EC2, EMR, PostgreSQL, S3, etc.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
• Proven success in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, technical decisions and data engineering strategy

Desirable:

• Multiple code language proficiency
• Power BI experience
• Channel/telecommunication experience

Additional Information

Giacom, DWS and Union Street are part of the same group of companies, bringing together three leading channel solutions in telecoms, cloud software services and cloud billing. Our aspiration is to be the number one supplier in the channel.

Your job role may be focused at one of the brands, but you will interact and impact across the wider group of companies.

What’s in it for you? Why should you come and work for us?

Our benefits consist of; no dress code (you, do you), days off for special life events. Work with and learn from experts in the telecoms industry, a wellbeing and engagement team, 'if you want a career with us then grab it' concept, recognition and team/industry events as well as a whole host of other benefits which can be found on our website www.digitalwholesalesolutions.com on our Careers page.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we positively encourage applications from all eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy or maternity.

We aim to ensure that all applicants are provided with the same opportunities during the recruitment process, and, to that end, we strive to comply with the duties placed upon us to make reasonable adjustments as prescribed by the Equality Act 2010. Should you have a disability or long-term health condition and require a particular adjustment to be made to allow you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please ensure you let me know.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, provide two references and proof of right to work in the UK, unrestricted.

Here are some of the benefits that we offer…

• 25 days holidays, plus bank holidays, and the option to purchase more!
• Pension
• Employees Assistance Programme
• Professional development to help you achieve your personal goals
• Eye care vouchers available and discounted Medicash membership
• Access to discounts and savings at more than 1,200 retailers
• An additional day off on your birthday

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