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Data Engineer

Nest Corporation
City of London
1 week 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 help develop a cloud‑based data and analytics platform on Azure and support end‑users in integrating their workflows with this platform and other systems, including AWS‑based solutions. Your responsibilities include combining data from different sources and building data pipelines to transform and organise raw data into formats that can be easily used for business intelligence, deep‑dive analysis and modelling.


Interviews will be held face‑to‑face in the London office. We are open to discussing working patterns and flexible arrangements. All internal applicants are welcome to apply, regardless of current working pattern or hours. Feel free to apply even if you think you lack all key skills – we offer generous training budgets and spot potential.


Reward and Recognition

  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Reward and recognition scheme
  • Enhanced auto‑enrolled pension – contributions start at 5% (default), we match: 6% → 9%, 7%+ → 10%
  • Income protection scheme – provides income if you cannot work due to illness or incapacity

Flexible and Agile Working

  • Hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working – expected to attend the office 1–2 times per week, as required
  • Reduce or vary working hours
  • Reduce or vary days worked
  • Work compressed hours
  • Job share

Directorate / Department Overview

Data, Analytics and Customer Insight drives data‑driven decision making at Nest, putting customers at the heart of our work and helping colleagues understand and use our data. Our directorate includes:



  • Business Intelligence – deliver visualisations to make Nest’s data intuitive
  • Customer insight – understand needs through empathy, research, surveys and digital insight
  • Data – manage high‑quality data, enabling BI, analysis and modelling
  • Partnership leads – collaborate with our outsourced customer‑experience provider to ensure data & insight flow correctly from 2023
  • Data strategy – improve data literacy, governance, and collaboration on shared data assets
  • Analytics – create value through descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analysis and modelling to support decision making

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


Organisational Overview

Nest is a government delivery success story, launched in 2010, and has become a critical pillar of the automatic enrolment pension programme. With over 8 million members, we invest responsibly and sustainably, maintain first‑class investment practice and governance, and are committed to enabling members to achieve the retirement they want. We promote an inclusive culture that reflects our value of diversity and belonging.


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