Staff Data Engineer (AWS Python

• Enhanced parental leave, up to 12 weeks paid leave for premature births and neonatal care, paid leave for IVF and fertility treatment and pregnancy loss
• £40 per month wellbeing budget
• £20 per month learning and development budget, plus access to larger budgets for qualifications
• Private medical care, access to free therapy
• X2 days per year for volunteering
• Excellent career development opportunities

Your role:

As a Staff Data Engineer you'll set the direction for Data Engineering and build the data foundations to help the company scale as they build v2 of the product. You'll have a broad scope across the data lifecycle including ingestion, transformation and modelling, serving and ensuring data is accessible and usable.

You'll build and improve trusted, self-serve data capabilities for internal teams and product use cases, with clear ownership and governance, partner with Data Science and Platform teams, and collaborate across Engineering and the wider business to deliver secure, well-operated data systems whilst reducing operational overheads and improving maintainability and reliability by strengthening standards, simplifying patterns and reducing operational overhead.

• You're a hands-on technical leader with a focus on Data Engineering
• You have experience of building and operating data platforms in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• You have strong foundations in data modelling, transformation and orchestration
• You have a pragmatic approach to architecture decisions, balancing long-term thinking with delivery needs, whilst seeking continual improvement of data quality, discoverability and usability across an organisation
• You're a trusted Data Engineering leader, comfortable building relationships across teams and with non-technical stakeholders
• You're collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skills