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Role:                                    Data Engineer

Location:                             Leeds, hybrid working 1 day per week from our Leeds HQ

Salary:                                 £45,000 to £55,000 DOE, including extensive benefits

Contract type:                    Permanent

Employment type:             Full time

Working hours:                  37.5 hours per week, with core hours operating between 9:30 to 16:00, Mon-Fri

Do you want to work for the nation’s largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We’re a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years’ experience, helping over 1.6 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery.  We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day.  Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient-centric digital healthcare provider.  We are committed to continuing to develop a positive, open and honest working environment for all.

Working for a market leading organisation as a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, documentation and delivery of data flows that connect production, and analytical systems. Working in a cloud based environment, migrating from monolithic to microservice models. Following best practice, delivering change via CI/CD pipelines.

 

What’s in it for you?

Occupational sick pay                      

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay                        

Contributory pension 

Discounted insurance (Aviva)          

Employee discount site                                                  

Discounted gyms (via our blue light card and benefits schemes)

Employee assistance programme  

In-house mental health support                                   

Free onsite parking  

Health and wellbeing initiatives      

Social events throughout the year                                

Cycle to work scheme 

Green car scheme*(subject to minimum earnings)                   

Registration fees paid (GPhC, NMC, CIPD etc)             

Long service bonus 

Refer a friend bonus                        

Blue light card                                                                 

Hybrid working

Commitment to CPD/training         

25 days annual leave increasing with service

Annual leave buy and sell scheme

Discounts & Exclusive offers at The Springs, Leeds

25% Discount & health & beauty purchases 

25% Discount on Pharmacy2U Private Online Doctor Services

 

What you’ll be doing?

  • Design and implement data flows to connect production and analytical systems. Create solution and data-flow diagrams, as well as documentation to support governance, maintenance, and usage by internal teams. Ensure adherence to change and release management processes.
  • Communicate with stakeholders to properly understand requirements, translating between technical and non-technical language.
  • Support the development of data products based on varied data sources, using a range of storage technologies and access methods.
  • Assess the current state and recommend appropriate tools and techniques to satisfy new requests.
  • Re-engineer existing data flows to better support scalability.
  • Consider non-functional requirements such as auditing and archiving of data.
  • Support data quality and master data management, and assist BI developers and software engineers in effectively integrating and reporting on data with accuracy and reliability.
  • Respond to support escalations from DevOps and technical colleagues, providing troubleshooting as required.

Who are we looking for?

  • Experience with cloud data platforms such as Microsoft Azure
  • Working with REST APIs
  • Must have demonstrated history working as a Data Engineer
  • Ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical language
  • Familiarity with data governance principles and best practice to ensure data quality, security, and compliance.
  • Ability to troubleshoot and debug complex data engineering problems, including performance bottlenecks and data pipeline failures.
  • Excellent communication skills, and attention to detail 

 

What happens next?

Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview.

Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK.

All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.

Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.

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