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Data Engineer

TES
Sheffield
4 days ago
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Grays Inn Rd, London WC1X 8NH, UK ● Norfolk St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE, UK Req #1048

01 July 2025

Department: Data & Insights

Location: Sheffield or London

Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office

Contact Type: Full time, permanent

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview:

This is an exciting role in our transformation as it will help provide valuable insights, improve decision-making leading us to deliver value where schools and teachers need it most. We are looking for a junior to mid-level Data Engineer to join our team and help us build and maintain our data infrastructure. Our Data Engineering team sits within the Data & Insights team.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and implement data pipelines and data processing systems.
  • Work alongside Data Analysts and Analytics Engineers to build and maintain data models and infrastructure. Delivering a platform that meets their and business stakeholder’s needs.
  • Take ownership of deploying your code and optimise data pipelines for performance and scalability.
  • Ensure the quality and integrity of data.
  • Happy to contribute and share knowledge amongst their own team and Tes Engineering via knowledge sharing meetings.

What You Need to Succeed

  • Strong skills in Python and SQL
  • Demonstrable hands-on experience in AWS cloud
  • Data ingestions both batch and streaming data and data transformations (Airflow, Glue, Lambda, Snowflake Data Loader, FiveTran, Spark, Hive etc.).
  • Apply agile thinking to your work. Delivering in iterations that incrementally build on what went before.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Good written and verbal skills, able to translate concepts into easily understood diagrams and visuals for both technical and non-technical people alike.
  • AWS cloud products (Lambda functions, Redshift, S3, AmazonMQ, Kinesis, EMR, RDS (Postgres)).
  • Apache Airflow for orchestration.
  • DBT for data transformations.
  • Machine Learning for product insights and recommendations.
  • Experience with microservices using technologies like Docker for local development.
  • Apply engineering best practices to your work, e.g. unit tests and test-driven development.

What do you get in return?

  • 25 days annual leave rising to 30
  • State of the art city centre offices
  • Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
  • Discounted city centre parking
  • Free eye care cover
  • Life Assurance
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • EAP (Employee assistance programme)
  • Monthly Tes Socials
  • Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management.

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai.

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

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