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Data Engineer

Sanctuary
Worcester
6 days ago
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Overview

Role: Talent Acquisition Specialist (Corporate Services) – Worcester

Salary: £73,166 - £77,017 per year plus Company car or car allowance

Hours: 35 hours per week – 9:00am to 5:00pm

This role sits in the Data Management Team as part of Technology, responsible for delivering Technology capability within Sanctuary Group to ensure employees have access to the systems they need to perform their duties. This role reports into the Head of Data Engineering.

Responsibilities
  • The role of Data Engineer will include:
  • Managing and delivering the continuous improvement of Sanctuary's enterprise data engineering capabilities
  • Full responsibility for the end-to-end ETL lifecycle across a complex SAP and non-SAP data landscape, responsible for defining, building and scaling a modern data platform aligned to business needs
  • Championing modern data engineering practices and shape the roadmap for data engineering initiatives ensuring resilience, availability, scalability, governance and performance to support Sanctuary's business goals
  • Partnering with Data Governance, Data Architecure, Data Enablement, BI and business teams to fully understand data requirements and build fit-for-purpose solutions
Skills and experiences
  • Understanding of SAP data structures and LSMW data uploads
  • Good understanding of SAP analytics product roadmap
  • Comprehensive experience managing Data Engineering initiatives in complex environments
  • Excellent organisational and planning skills
Benefits
  • 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
  • A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
  • Life Assurance
  • Employee Advice Service including counselling
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Voluntary health plans
  • Wellbeing support and tools
  • Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
  • Employee Networks in support of inclusion
Job details
  • Employment type: Full-time
  • Job function: Information Technology
  • Industries: Non-profit Organizations


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