Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake - £110,000 - London - Hybrid

City of London
8 months ago
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Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake - £110,000 (+10% Bonus) - London - Hybrid

Company Overview:

My client is a global leader in the insurance industry, serving millions of customers worldwide. With strong financial foundations established over decades, their commitment to utilising innovative solutions and cutting-edge technologies is a key pillar of their recent success. They are also dedicated to ensuring the well-being and happiness of their employees through very flexible hybrid working patterns, as well as other amazing benefits, and a great company culture - over 4 out of 5 employees would recommend working here.

Role Overview:

As a Senior Data Engineer you'll be responsible for building and deploying full solutions from scratch, while maintaining security and data best practices. Duties will include product-based work as well as migration tasks. Due to your seniority you will also be tasked with mentoring junior engineers. You will be joining a close-knit team of 6 Data Engineers, as well as 30 Engineers in the businesses data arm.

Requirements:

3+ Years data engineering experience
Snowflake experience
Proficiency across an AWS tech stack
DBT Expertise
Terraform Experience

Nice to Have:

Data Modelling
Data Vault
Apache Airflow

Benefits:

Up to 10% Bonus
Up to 14% Pensions Contribution
29 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
Free Company Shares

Interviews ongoing don't miss your chance to secure a role working with cutting edge technology while maintaining exceptional work-life balance.

Contact me @ (url removed) or on (phone number removed).

Data Engineer, Snowflake, Cloud, ETL, Analytics, SQL, Python, AWS, Terraform, DevOps, end-to,end

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