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Continuing Defleet’s data led journey and recognising the importance the Data & Analytics team performs in this regard, we are looking for a skilled Lead Data Engineer who is passionate about exploiting data and searching for improvements in our existing processes and technology; can work closely with business teams; drives solutions with a focused mentality on business value and can lead, influence and drive collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
It will focus on expanding the existing mission critical ecosystem of Data and BI systems for analytics and decision making, using Primarily Data Warehouse/Mart, Data Lake, Self Service BI Tools and Data Science/ML platform using Oracle, Snowflake and AWS tech stack.
About You
We are looking for a skilled Lead Data Engineer who:
Personal Attributes
Self-starter with initiative and enthusiasm
Thrives at solving problems with minimal or no direction and developing their own solution
Looks at the existing tech landscape and identifies improvements without prompting
Desire and ability to continuously learn new technologies and practices and learn quickly
Passionate about data and technology and its application to solve business problems
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate at all levels
Be highly customer focused with ability to work collaboratively
Strong influencing and negotiating skills in a personable and professional manner
Strong analytical skills, both qualitative and quantitative
Ability to make recommendations and take decisions
Highly organised
To promote a professional culture
Flexibility of approach in delivering large change projects to tight deadlines
Ability to work unsupervised and to manage a varied workload efficiently
You’ll need all of these.
Solid understanding of data pipeline/ELT development, including performance tuning
Very good SQL skills
Past experience and solid understanding of end to end Data Warehouse, Data Lake and BI design and delivery at scale (high level and detailed) and various architectural strategies
Solid information architecture skills/experience: Data ingestions, and Data Warehouse and Date Lake modelling experience (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Data Vault etc.)
Past hands-on development experience in at least one enterprise analytics database like Oracle/Terradata/SQL Server/Snowflake
Understanding of AWS cloud and fundamental services like IAM, Lambda, S3 etc.
Experience of liaising with both in-house and third party development teams, across different geographical sites
Skilled at writing and understand Python code especially those using AWS boto3 APIs
Good understanding of replication software such as DMS
Very good SQL skills
Past experience and solid understanding of end to end Data Warehouse, Data Lake and BI design and delivery at scale (high level and detailed) and various architectural strategies
Solid information architecture skills/experience: Data ingestions, and Data Warehouse and Date Lake modelling experience (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Data Vault etc.)
Past hands-on development experience in at least one enterprise analytics database like Oracle/Terradata/SQL Server/Snowflake
Good understanding of MLOPS
Good knowledge of common big data platforms and best practices
Experience of working in an Agile environment
About The Company
Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 815,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.
Our Values Are At The Heart Of Everything We Do. They Represent Ambition, And We Look For Our People To Live And Breathe Them Every Day
We find solutions
We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.
As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:
Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
1 day for volunteering
Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
Funded health screening for over 50s
Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
Generous family leave policies
At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.
Seniority level
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Employment type Full-time
Job function
Job function Information Technology
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