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Data Engineer

Nest Pensions
London
3 weeks ago
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Overview

Data Engineer role at Nest Pensions. You’ll work with stakeholders to develop, test, and maintain data products and solutions that align with their requirements. You’ll develop a cloud-based data and analytics platform on Azure and help end-users integrate their workflows between this and other platforms, including AWS-based solutions. You’ll combine data from different sources and build data pipelines to transform and organise raw data into formats that can be easily used for business intelligence as well as deep dive analysis and modelling.


Role details

Interviews will be face to face in the London office. We are open to discussing working patterns. We welcome all internal applicants to apply for our roles, regardless of current working pattern or hours, and we will aim to accommodate your current arrangements. If you think you don’t have all key skills, it may be worth applying as we’re good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget. Please download a full job description to see the full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.


Responsibilities

  • Develop, test, and maintain data products and solutions that align with stakeholder requirements.
  • Develop a cloud-based data and analytics platform on Azure.
  • Help end-users integrate workflows between the Azure platform and other platforms, including AWS-based solutions.
  • Combine data from different sources and build data pipelines to transform and organise raw data for business intelligence and modelling.

Qualifications

  • Experience as a Data Engineer or similar role.
  • Experience with Azure data services and building data pipelines.
  • Knowledge of ETL/ELT, data modelling, and data governance.
  • Strong collaboration with stakeholders.

Benefits

  • A discretionary bonus scheme
  • Reward and recognition scheme
  • Enhanced auto enrolled pension – your contributions start at the default 5% while ours are higher at 8%. If you increase your contributions to 6% we raise ours to 9%. If you contribute 7% or more we’ll contribute 10%.
  • Income protection scheme – provides income if you cannot work due to illness or incapacity.

Working pattern

  • Hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (attendance at the office may be required once or more per week as needed).
  • Flexible options including reduced hours, reduced days, compressed hours, or job share.


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