Data Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Data Engineer

SALARY: £70,929-£86,691

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

We’re looking for a strategic and technically minded Data Engineer to join our Homes Platform AI Team.

The Data Engineer will collaborate with the Data Operations, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and Business SMEs to design, develop, integrate and test Data Product features on the product roadmaps to meet customer needs.

• Implement robust, secure, reliable, efficient, and well-documented Data Products, and participate in design/implementation reviews to learn best practices and improve quality.
• Lead team meetings and input into initiative discussions.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and specifications, collaborate with team to identify and fix defects.
• Contribute to the maintenance and support of existing Data Products. Troubleshoot and debug issues as they arise. Help ensure the smooth operation of deployed solutions.
• Promote active data product custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings.
• Enable the security, maintenance and resilience of Data Services and Products
• Invest to develop your data, technical and agile skills. Continuously improve data and technical skills through on-the-job learning and training opportunities. Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends. Seek feedback and actively work on improving data engineering and problem-solving skills

• Passion for software and data engineering, adopting the mindset of a curious engineer
• A technical lead, who takes ownership of deliveries within a Feature Team and is willing to help grow and guide engineers to form successful teams.
• Experience with cloud technology for data solutions, particularly Google Cloud Platform
• Experience DBT, SQL, Python, Java or SAS and other open source technologies used in analytics is essential.
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business ready solutions
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non-technical people.
• Insights into industry solutions for data management, storage, and analytics
• Experience of working within regulatory change would be advantageous, including Credit Risk, capital and impairment processes
• Experience of line management.

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies