Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.
WRK Digital is proud to partner exclusively with a well-known, high-profile organisation on a transformative data journey. We are seeking a Data Engineer to join its dynamic Data & Business Intelligence function.
Base pay range
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 + Excellent Benefits
Type: Full-Time, Permanent
About the Role
As a Data Engineer, you will help shape and deliver the future of data within the business, designing and maintaining robust data pipelines and curated data products within a cloud-based data lake environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with the Senior Data Engineers to maintain the Data Sourcing Roadmap in JIRA, providing high level estimates to enable effective prioritisation of activities in line with the Data Strategy.
- Support the Senior Engineers in conducting the discovery and design activities for new Data Assets, engaging with suppliers, data owners and InfoSec / DPO to ensure designs meet the requirements, are agreed and are captured in Confluence with the necessary JIRA tickets created for development.
- Develop, deploy and manage performant & robust data pipelines and high-quality data assets in line with designs, with progress updated via JIRA and any blockers identified and escalated.
- Support other Data Engineers to develop, deploy and manage performant & robust data pipelines and high-quality data assets in line with designs, with progress updated via JIRA and any blockers identified and escalated.
- Ensure all data pipeline and quality issues are tracked with recommendations made for strategic improvements where there are repeated or high impacting issues.
- Promote standards and best practices within the data community.
Key Requirements
- Experience as a Data Engineer delivering data pipelines that create high-quality data assets that are stable, scalable and reusable.
- Experience developing and deploying data pipelines within an AWS S3 Data Lake using VS Code, Glue, Lambda, Git Hub and Terraform.
- Experience with / understanding of a wide variety of analytics tools such as SQL, Alteryx, AWS Sagemaker, Quicksight, Tableau and PowerBI.
- Experience using Lake Formation.
- Experience with AWS Kinesis / Firehose for real-time data pipelines.
- Experience of rail, airline or leisure industry.
- Experience with data warehousing and AWS Redshift.
Why Join?
This is a unique opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation investing heavily in its data capability. You’ll be part of a growing team at the heart of transformation, contributing to large-scale projects that impact customer experience, operational efficiency, and strategic direction.
This role can be based anywhere in the UK with travel to York once a week.
Location
York, England, United Kingdom
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology, Analyst, and Engineering
Apply now
Apply now to be part of a data-driven journey that’s just getting started.
