Data Engineer

501634Permanent Full TimeLondonData Architecture & Data Engineering

How will your role contribute at NewDay?

This position needs someone with energy and enthusiasm to complement our existing development team to look after our BAU processes and accelerate our delivery of our data lake solution.

In this role you must have a attention to detail and growth mindset with a desire to deliver high quality output for yourself and the team.

The ability to hit the deck running and add value quickly will be crucial.

What will you be doing day-to-day?

Specific lead accountabilities of the Data Engineering role:

Monitoring daily BAU data pipelines and ensure our data solution is refreshed up to date every day

Enhance the daily BAU process. Making it easier to monitor and less likely to fail and hands on development on Data Lake build, change and defect fix

Working with the team within an Agile framework using agile methodology tooling that controls our development and CI/CD release processes

Contributing to the new Data Lake technology across the organisation to address a broad set of use cases across data science and data warehousing

Your Skills and Experience

ESSENTIAL

  • Proficiency with traditional database SQL technologies (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2)
  • Experience with data solution BAU processes (ETL, table refresh etc.)
  • Experience with integration of data from multiple data sources
  • Expereince in Big Data data integration technologies such as Spark, Scala, Kafka
  • Expereince in programming language such as Python or Scala.
  • Analytical and problem solving skills, applied to data solution
  • Experience of CI/CD
  • Good aptitude in multi-threading and concurrency concepts
  • Familiarity with the fundamentals of Linux scripting language

    • Desirable

  • Previous proficiency with ETL technologies (e.g. Talend, Informatica, Abinitio)
  • Previous exposure to Python
  • Previous exposure to own data solution BAU monitoring and enhancement
  • Exposure to building applications for a cloud environment

    • Your Personal Attributes

  • Attention to detail
  • Keen to learn and enhance the existing processes
  • Structured, organised, process driven and outcome oriented
  • Personable, credible, with good communication skills
  • Good interpersonal & written communication skills.
  • Self-motivated, able to work in a high-pressure environment
  • Strong organizational, planning and time management skills
  • Ability to build strong and effective working relationships on an ongoing basis
  • Ability to embrace company culture and embed into day-to-day interactions
  • Passionate, keen and energetic with demonstrable enthusiasm and commitment.
  • Pragmatism in design decisions

    • Inclusion at NewDay

    We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We will not discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the application and interview process.