Data & AI Engineer
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Job description
The successful candidate will work on building, maintaining and improving data pipelines, datasets and tools used by editorial, research and product teams. This includes collecting, processing and managing data from public, internal and third-party sources.
The role involves designing and maintaining data workflows, developing scripts and services for data ingestion and transformation, and supporting the storage and management of structured datasets used across the organisation.
The successful applicant will collaborate with developers, analysts and editorial teams to ensure data is accessible, reliable and well-structured for analysis, reporting and product development. So, what makes our software team awesome?
There are many opportunities to learn, grow and work on interesting projects. You will collaborate with a team of experienced developers, testers, architects and system administrators, gaining exposure to a wide range of technologies and practices.
We offer stable employment and a strong project pipeline, with many ongoing initiatives and improvements on our roadmap. Many of our developers build long-term careers with us. Duties and responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain data pipelines and automated workflows for collecting and processing data
- Design, manage and optimise structured datasets used across the organisation
- Write scripts and services to extract, transform and load data from various sources
- Support journalists, analysts and product teams with accessing and working with data
- Ensure data quality, consistency and reliability across datasets
- Identify opportunities to improve automation and efficiency in data workflows
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders including developers, designers, UX specialists and product teams
- Contribute to the development of new data products, tools and services
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have practical experience working with data in a development or technical environment. This may include software development, data processing, database management or building automated data workflows.
They should be comfortable working with structured datasets, writing scripts to process data, and supporting data-driven applications or services.
An interest in financial markets is helpful but not required.
Some travel will be required, so we will only consider candidates who have the right to freely travel across Europe. Must have
- Minimum 2 years professional use of Python and/or PHP
- SQL
- Experience working with structured data and spreadsheets
Should have
- Git
- AWS or Google Cloud
Nice to have
- Snowflake
- PHP Symfony
- Drupal (we are on version 11)
- JavaScript, jQuery, Vue.js
- Docker
Benefits & conditions
This role is can be based in the UK or anywhere in the EU remote.
We offer a competitive benefits package including:
- 25 days of annual leave, rising to 30 days with length of service
- Additional day off on your birthday
- Group personal pension plan
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Employee assistance programme providing confidential 24/7 support on wellbeing and mental health
- Eye-care vouchers
- Discounted gym membership and employee discount scheme
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave up to 26 weeks full pay
- Dependant leave up to 5 days full pay per year
- We're proud to support employee wellbeing with a dedicated menopause policy and a culture of open, inclusive support.
- Option to buy additional annual leave
- Dental insurance
- Health cash plan
- Personal accident insurance
- Paid volunteer days each year
- Access to professional development and training through our learning platform, Generation Infopro
- Employee recognition programme (Bonusly)
Additional benefits may include options such as adding a partner to gym membership and participating in the Give As You Earn charitable donation scheme.
