Junior Data Engineer

Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd
Birmingham
1 month ago
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At Compass Group UK&I, we’re more than just the UK’s leading contract catering company — we’re driving digital transformation across the business. Our Digital & Technology team is at the heart of this journey, creating cutting-edge solutions that improve efficiency, elevate customer experiences, and deliver real business impact.

We're looking for a Junior Data Engineer to join our data engineering team and start building real skills on a modern, cloud-first data platform — contributing to analytics and decision-making that impacts the UK's largest catering business.

This is not a graduate scheme. This is a real engineering role, with real pipelines, real stakeholders, and real impact. You'll be supported by experienced engineers who are invested in your growth — but you'll be expected to show up curious, take feedback seriously, and care about the quality of what you build.

If you're early in your career and want to learn data engineering properly, this is a great place to do it.

What You'll Be Responsible For

  • Building and maintaining data pipelines using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Python on the Databricks Lakehouse platform
  • Supporting the development of batch pipelines that feed our Discovery Analytics platform, powered by Power BI
  • Writing clean, well-documented code and contributin...

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