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Data Engineer

Nestpensions
City of London
3 days ago
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Role Overview

As a Data Engineer, you’ll work closely with stakeholders to develop, test, and maintain data products and solutions that align with their requirements. You’ll be helping to 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 you’ll 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.

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 your current working pattern or hours. We will aim to accommodate your request and match your current working arrangements.

Don\'t worry if you think you don\'t have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we\'re good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Reward and recognition
  • 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 up your contributions to 6% we raise ours to 9%. If you contribute 7% or more we’ll contribute 10%.
  • Income protection scheme – is an insurance benefit that provides you with income if you cannot work due to illness or incapacity.

Everyone\'s personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we\'ve introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

  • hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
  • reduce or vary working hours
  • reduce or vary the days worked
  • work compressed hours
  • job share

For more information about our recruitment process click here – Our recruitment process | Nest Pensions

Nest is at the beginning of a transformation to use its data and insight to drive decision making, and Data, Analytics and Customer Insight is leading how we do it: putting our customers at the heart of our work and helping colleagues to understand and use our data. Our work enables Nest to continually learn, improve how we work and create value so that we can deliver a better retirement for millions.

The directorate includes:

  • Business Intelligence – delivering data visualisations to make Nest’s data intuitive to understand
  • Customer insight – understanding customers\' needs through empathy, research, surveys, and digital insight
  • Data – managing high quality data as an enterprise, enabling BI, analysis and modelling to happen and be automated
  • Partnership leads – working with our outsourced provider to ensure the right data & insight flows between organisations
  • Data strategy – data literacy, governance, and a strategy for collaboration to make data a useful shared asset for Nest
  • Analytics – creating value through descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis and modelling

If you love data and insight, and you\’d like to help us on this journey, come and join us.

Organisational Overview

Nest is a great government delivery success story. Established in 2010, Nest has been a critical pillar of the government\’s automatic enrolment pension programme, with a public service obligation to accept any employer wishing to use the scheme to discharge their automatic enrolment duties.

Now with over 8 million members, our award-winning pension fund is tailored to members’ requirements by combining extensive research and an expert understanding of their needs. First-class investment practice and governance are the backbone of our organisation. We invest responsibly and sustainably and are always transparent about the choices we make. It is both a privilege and a responsibility to help each of our members achieve the retirement they want.

It’s important that Nest has an equally diverse workforce and promotes an inclusive culture. This is in line with the organisation’s values and ensures that Nest is a corporation fit for the future.


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