Data Engineer

At The Data Shed, we've been working with some truly inspiring clients on anything from real-time data integration and data mining to analytics-ready data modelling and insight elicitation with data exploration and Machine Learning. We face new and exciting challenges every day, from ensuring high availability and performance of critical government systems, to understanding and improving complex banking and finance data structures.

Our Data Engineers find themselves working on a broad range of data-centric technologies across the major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). While our teams have commonly used Python, SQL, Java, Go, Ruby, JavaScript and C#, we expect engineers to be agnostic to technology—valuing their ability to be adaptable and learn quickly.

As part of our engineering team, you will be responsible for building large-scale data management and analytics platforms. We use a variety of tools, making sure we use the right one for the job at hand. As a close-working and collaborative team, we make data valuable and available to our clients, through consultancy services or product development.

Skills & Experience

At The Data Shed we are looking for experience in the following things. We need people who are open to new technologies, quick to adapt, and quick to learn. If you don’t have one of the following please apply and we can discuss in more detail.

• Can write code and tests in at least one core language
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases and/or NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of at least one Cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Comfortable working with different data formats, e.g., CSV, JSON and XML
• Broader knowledge of IT — e.g., Security and Networking
• Working in an Agile Environment
• Test-Driven Development and/or Behaviour Driven Development
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

Optional Experience

• The following is optional, but highly desirable experience!
• Building reliable Data Pipelines
• Experience of Exploratory Data Analysis
• Experience of visualising data
• Working with Metrics, Segments, Aggregates, Features

Requirements of the Role

• Maintain a broad knowledge of the technology landscape helping The Data Shed provide market-leading
• Assist our clients in enterprise-scale projects utilising best-practice development methodologies
• Spend as much time on tests and security as on writing code
• Work with a team of like-minded, high-calibre engineers to translate user requirements into working Code
• Working collaboratively across the team
• Lead definition and maintenance of best practice and standards in development and design principles and process
• Never make the same mistake twice
• Make it right and only then, make it fast

Benefits

We have a variety of benefits including a company performance-based bonus , an enhanced pension, private healthcare programme, an EAP program, a life assurance scheme, regular socials and and for any additional needs you have, we have a friendly and knowledgeable HR team to support you.

Location

This is a remote role as we have a Leeds HQ. Travel to client sites may be required from time-to-time, subject to business need.

Ready to be a Shedder?

We also celebrate each other’s differences and encourage each other to explore new ways of thinking. The result is a diverse set of individuals who come together to create a multi-talented, cohesive organisation. If you think that your uniqueness could make us even stronger, then please get in touch!