Senior Data Engineer

London, United Kingdom

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Inmarsat

Inmarsat is the leading satellite service provider, offering mobile satellite communication services and delivering reliable, seamless global connectivity.

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Company Description

On May 31, 2023, Viasat completed its acquisition of Inmarsat, combining the teams, technologies and resources of the two companies to create a new global communications partner. 

About Viasat 

Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. With offices in 24 countries around the world, our mission shapes how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate and connect. Viasat is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, reliable, secure, affordable, fast connections to positively impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at sea, while building a sustainable future in space.

Chief Technology Office 

The Chief Technology Office (CTO) maintains a centre of excellence for technology and broader infrastructure-related innovation, translating market needs into core expansion programmes to enable market development. We ensure that products and services are constantly pushing the boundaries of satellite communications.  The CTO team is responsible for delivering development programmes, including satellites and launchers, ground infrastructure (ground stations, networks, user terminals and access technology), regulatory, market access and product and service development. 

Job Description

Primary role purpose:

As a Senior Data Engineer you will be involved in and responsible for the design, implementation, deployment, and productionizing of our data collection systems, streaming and batch, and (ETL) pipelines for our data scientists, partners, value added resellers, and customers. This includes setting up and developing a monitoring solution for data integrity and data quality through all stages of the pipelines.

You will work closely with teams both within CTO and across the other business units to identify recurring issues, perform root cause analysis, and you will take an active role in assessing remedial actions taken to improve overall quality of service.

Consistent reporting and availability of clear information is critical to the wider team; the post-holder will be required to establish relevant in-service metrics, to feedback regularly to stakeholders as well as to develop an effective data-management system and a means for data to be easily disseminated and accessed by other team members.

Key Responsibilities:

  • The development, maintenance, and deployment of data integration and ETL pipelines
  • Setting up rules, alerting, and monitoring for data consistency and quality
  • Converting and migrating current (legacy) data pipelines
  • Working together with the data scientists and operations to help them provide the right data at the right time to the business, our partners, value added resellers, and customers
  • Automating business and operations reports and alerts
  • Managing data repositories
  • Maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Resolving complex issues that may impact multiple business areas

Qualifications

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

You are recognised as a data engineering specialist with advanced skills in:

  • Managing distributed systems and clusters
  • Deployment, provisioning, and automation tools. (e.g. git, Jenkins, Sonar, RPM)
  • Linux system administration
  • Programming in scripting languages, e.g. bash, python
  • Relational and time series databases
  • Data management and monitoring
  • Building (complex) ETL pipelines
  • Batch and streaming

Desirable Knowledge and Skills:

Some experience with the following:

  • Dynamically and statically typed languages
  • (Apache) Kafka
  • Postgres and InfluxDB
  • Airflow
  • StreamSets
  • Docker

Additional Information

You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.

Our culture and ways of working 

Our values define our culture and represent what we believe in. Employees aspire to behaviours that support our values, which create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation. 

  • Customer – we provide a unique value to our customers 
  • Accountability – we take ownership, we deliver results, and we keep our promises 
  • Respect – we collaborate, we embrace and celebrate diversity and we value difference 
  • Excellence – we create bold solutions for our customers and put quality at the heart of everything we do 

We also value and encourage a healthy work-life balance, so we offer flexible working wherever possible. Depending on the operational requirements of your job and your team, we can offer compressed hours (nine-day fortnight), hybrid office-remote working, and flexibility during your working day to take care of personal commitments. 

Diversity

We want the best people for the job, and we warmly welcome applications from you if you’re suitably qualified and eligible, regardless of your sex, gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, gender identity, neurodiverse qualities, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, or maternity status. 

We are signed up to the Halo Hair Code, which aims to protect employees who come to work with natural hair and protective hairstyles associated with their racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. 

To give you the best experience possible during your application process and interview, we can make adjustments. For example, if you’re visually impaired we’ll happily meet you locally and help you find your way to our office, or if you have neurodiverse qualities, we can provide you with additional support to help you prepare for your interview. Please let our Resourcing Team know if there are any ways in which we can support you. 

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Tags: Airflow Data management Data pipelines Data quality Distributed Systems Docker Engineering ETL Git InfluxDB Kafka Linux Pipelines PostgreSQL Python Streaming

Perks/benefits: Flex hours

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