Junior Data Engineer

About Iglu:

Iglu.com is the largest independent online travel business specialising in cruise (iglucruise.com and planetcruise.com) and ski (igluski.com) holidays.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Junior Data Engineer to join the IT department to help us fulfil the ambitious goals of the organisation. Many of these goals need to be supported with quality data and our ability to process this data at scale.

As a Junior Data Engineer, you will join a data engineering team with a broad skillset in the data space.

You will work closely with one of our product teams, agilely, to ensure data is imported & transformed accurately and timely from both internal and external data stores. You’ll work with the Product Owner to deliver new data processing requirements and changes to existing pipelines.

You'll be responsible for supporting and maintaining our existing data ingestion pipelines, ensuring the smooth operation of our data processing services and the delivery of a reliable data offering to our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

The Junior Data Engineer will:

• Work with the Product Owner to scope, plan & estimate new data processing needs
• Build data pipelines (SQL/ SSIS) to ingest data from internal/ external data stores and transform the data as needed
• Work with the wider product team to ensure data deliveries are fit for purpose & relevant
• Have sound T-SQL knowledge and be able to debug, optimise, and performance tune existing SQL Server procedures/ functions
• Be able to work to sometimes tight timescales and adapt as source data changes without warning
• Have knowledge of cloud data pipeline tools (AWS preferred). Experience here is a plus
• Be passionate about data quality and the service we provide through data to our customers
• Understand the difference between structured data, unstructured and semi-structured data and the different ways each can be processed
• Be overseen/ mentored by an experienced data engineer

About the Person:

We understand everyone has their strengths and performs to their best in different ways, but some of our most successful people here:

• Are passionate, curious and excited about data
• Have an appetite for personal development
• Display great self awareness around time management and prioritisation
• Are diligent and conscientious
• Show adaptability and resilience
• Have personal drive
• Are solution focused
• Are trusted by others and offer support
• Communicate well with others within their own department and across the business
• Are a team player, show accountability and embrace responsibility

Skills/ Experience:

• SQL Server (T-SQL, Query Optimisation, Indexing, Partitioning)
• SSIS
• Powershell
• Data Exploration (Postman, WSDL, JSON)
• Python
• Analytical & problem solving skills.
• Knowledge of AWS data processing technologies (Glue, Lambda, Redshift, Athena)