Data Engineer (Snowflake) - Grade D

City of London
8 months ago
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Job Description

AWS Data Engineer - Hybrid (1-2 days in office) -London

£75000

Role & Responsibilities

Supporting the delivery of good customer outcomes through all activities and deliverable, enabling us to act in good faith towards customers, avoid causing foreseeable harm and enable and support our customers to pursue their financial objectives.
Manage data migrations and day-to-day data governance activities.Review technical work and provide training to Data Engineers, including mentoring and sharing technical expertise with more junior members of own team to build capability.
Deliver change programmes, driven by business or IT projects, to support data transformation, data structures and metadata for both structured and unstructured data.
Deliver projects and mentor juniors
Working on a migration project next year
Skills & Qualifications

Experience being a modern Data Engineer - end to end projects
Good experience with Snowflake, building full solutions, ideally from scratch with security, and user access
DBT/ general data modelling with dault vault experience being desirable
Airflow and Python experience
Proficient with AWS- Lambda, S3, SNS, CDK- DevOPs
Need to be able to build, deploy and use Terraform Benefits

Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance Generous pension scheme - will provide up to 14%, depending on individual contributions
29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a choice to buy or sell up to 5 days
Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on products, and other retailer discounts.

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