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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineer (11-months FTC Maternity Cover) - **Company:** Save My Exams - **Location:** UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £75,000.0 - £100,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Sql Data Warehouse, Google AdWords, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Github, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Tableau (Software), Macros, Snowflake, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Software Version Control - **Published:** July 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5819235765 ## About the Role * Strong professional experience in data engineering or analytics engineering, with the seniority to operate autonomously as the sole owner of a data platform. * Expert SQL and data modelling skills, with production experience running dbt at scale (testing, incremental models, macros, documentation). * Experience administering a cloud data warehouse, ideally Snowflake, including access control, performance tuning and cost management. * Experience building and orchestrating pipelines with CI/CD and infrastructure as code (we use GitHub Actions and Terraform). * Python programming skills, able to write clean, maintainable, production-ready pipeline code. * Comfort managing your own priorities: triaging requests from across the business, communicating trade-offs clearly, and delivering against agreed timelines. * An ownership mindset and an attitude of taking responsibility for the platform, data and code you ship. * Excellent oral and written communication skills, including writing documentation others can rely on. Nice-to-haves * Experience with AWS (we use Glue, Step Functions, Lambda, ECS) * Experience with reverse ETL into CRM and advertising platforms (e.g. Meta, TikTok and Google Ads). * Familiarity with Tableau or similar BI tools, and with marketing, subscription or revenue data. * Experience in the EdTech space or in Education in general. ## Description This is an 11-month fixed-term contract covering maternity leave. You'll be our only Data Engineer, taking full ownership of the data platform for the whole business. To love this role, here's the type of person you are: * You enjoy owning a data platform end-to-end, this includes ingestion, modelling, orchestration and activation and take as much pride in keeping it reliable as in extending it. * You're comfortable being the sole data engineer in a company: setting the standards, making the technical decisions, and acting as the go-to person for anything data engineering. * You bring software engineering discipline to data work. Best practices such as version control, code review, CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure as code are your defaults, not extras. * You're pragmatic, balancing engineering rigour with business reality and choosing the simplest solution that solves the problem well. * You enjoy working directly with non-technical stakeholders, translating their questions and requirements into well-modelled, trustworthy data. * You'd enjoy supporting a product that directly helps millions of students across the world, and you like the ambiguity, pace and opportunity that comes with a relatively small company. Your Responsibilities: Over the next 11 months, you'll: * Own and run our data platform end-to-end: ingesting data from third-party APIs, internal databases and event streams into Snowflake, transforming it with dbt, and orchestrating everything on AWS. * Keep the platform secure, reliable, cost-efficient and maintainable. 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