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Travelex Deutschland Gmbh
City of London
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Job Title: Data Engineer Job Type: Full Time, Permanent Working location: London, Hybrid Role Purpose As a Data Engineer, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders across the business to design and deliver new components of our data landscape. You’ll own your work end-to-end, from defining the approach, through coding, configuration and documentation, to go-live. In doing so, you’ll have significant impact on how our business evolves and the freedom to shape solutions in your own way.Key Responsibilities Here are key things you’ll do as a data engineer in our team. The list isn’t complete: as a competent engineer, you’ll bring to Travelex your own ideas of what else is needed to become a world-class data-driven business.Learn what’s required from your solutions and negotiate the requirements to achieve clarity and simplicity.Key Requirements This vacancy is for someone who enjoys mixing hands-on coding with wider problem-solving and continuous learning. Below are key requirements from our data engineer, but you don’t need to tick every box. Success in our team is not limited to the traditional data engineering type! Significant hands-on experience with AWS services focused on data flow, pipelines, data transformation, storage and streaming.Excellent data engineering skills, for example with SQL, Python, DBT and Airflow. Good understanding of service-oriented architecture; experience of exposing and consuming data via APIs, streams and webhooks. Experience designing scalable data models, warehouse/lakehouse architectures, and dimensional modelling for analytics.Good understanding of security best practices, and experience of implementing them. Knowledge of data quality frameworks, cataloging, lineage, and governance tools.Familiarity with CI/CD practices and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).Experience setting up alerting, logging, and monitoring for data pipelines (e.g., using CloudWatch, Datadog). The ability to explain, brainstorm, present, simplify, clarify, prioritise, document, listen, negotiate and compromise.The curiosity to understand the business, its requirements and culture. Our commitment to innovation has never been greater, with the development of a number of digital-first, greenfield products and services. And with the Travelex's resources, deep industry experience and leading brand we are inventing the future of FX, cross-border e-commerce and international payments.
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