Senior Data Engineer

Red Engine Team
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2 months ago
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Hello, we are Red Engine, the team behind the award-winning global brands Flight Club and Electric Shuffle. We're obsessed with disrupting the hospitality industry by creating and delivering the best possible experience - across all venues, products and brands. Our central team covers the full spectrum of skills needed to bring each concept to life – from design to marketing, sales to interior design, people and training, to finance, gaming and HR and everything in between. We’re not just a team of people, we are dreamers, artists, rocket scientists, content curators, forward thinkers and the industry’s finest. We love what we do and are proud to be included in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025. With a total of 19 incredible venues throughout the UK, and a further 16 around the globe, we have ambitious plans and are passionate about developing new and exciting products, which means we’re always growing and looking for passionate people to join the family.


The Job

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be working in the Red Engine Business Intelligence team, helping to build out the existing data and analytics platform. This role is placed within a small team, allowing the successful candidate design freedom in implementing bespoke features and enhancements to our data platform using the latest technology. In this role you will assist other engineers in the development of the data platform. This includes meeting with key business stakeholders to gather technical requirements and implementing these requirements into technical data solutions within the Data & Analytics platform.


Key Responsibilities Will Include

  • Developing and maintaining data pipelines to orchestrate the ingestion of data from disparate source systems into a centralised data analytics platform.
  • Designing and implementing data engineering solutions using T‑SQL, Python, PySpark and DBT in the Azure cloud environment.
  • Working with Data Analysts in promoting business logic into DBT data models, to support business reports and dashboards.
  • Maintaining and leveraging CI/CD deployment pipelines to promote application code into higher tier environments.
  • Maintaining and updating the technical documentation suite in Azure DevOps.

To Be Successful In This Role, You’ll

  • Demonstrate solid experience developing of ETL/ELT ingestion pipelines to handle data movement, transformation and visualisations from structured and unstructured sources.
  • Have experience with the Azure Platform including:

    • Data Ingestion: Azure Data Factory (ADF), Databricks, Logic Apps and Function App
    • Data Storage: ADLS, SQL Server and Unity Catalog (Medallion Architecture)
    • Data Analysis: Databricks Notebooks, SQL Queries, Data visualisation
    • Strong understanding of the Databricks Platform including managing, developing and deploying workflows, jobs and notebooks.
    • Proven experience in modelling data in a Data warehouse using an Inmon or Kimball approaches.
    • Database development experience in SQL Server including the creation of stored procedures in T‑SQL or a similar enterprise database toolset.
    • Experience working in an Agile software development framework.
    • Excellent working knowledge of Data Build Tool (DBT) with a demonstrated ability in developing data models, contracts, tests, validation, and transformations.
    • Experience working with modern data distributed file formats (i.e., Parquet, Delta, Iceberg, Hudi).
    • Demonstrated experience with building data ingestion pipelines from REST API data sources.
    • Strong ability to produce technical documentation that can be understood by both technical and non-technical audiences.
    • Strong working understanding in Cloud Administration and/or Database Administration.



Desirable Skills

  • Experience with IaC solutions using Terraform, Pulumi or similar tools.
  • Experience with modern CI/CD DevOps frameworks.
  • Experience in developing data visualisations using PowerBi, Tableau or similar tools.
  • Experience working with the MS Fabric platform.

What You'll Get

  • Competitive pay
  • Annual bonus
  • 33 days annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays
  • Fusion working (our team are regularly in our venues, working collaboratively in our bright offices in Angel, or focusing on individual projects with work from home Thursdays)
  • Staff discount in all venues (50% off Sunday, Monday, 25% off Tuesday – Saturday, and free game hire)
  • Private healthcare
  • Regular team socials and weekly lunch in venue
  • Monthly learning and development classes, quarterly teambuilding events
  • Summer and Christmas socials
  • Help @ hand 24/7 health support
  • Free access to therapy, nutritionists, and physiotherapists

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level


Employment type

Full-time


Job function

Information Technology


Industries

Hospitality


Here at Red Engine, we believe our success begins and ends with our people. We are committed to a diverse culture where all our team feel respected and included. We acknowledge the power that a diverse set of beliefs and perspectives can bring, and that a variety of voices strengthens our team, enhances creativity, and drives innovation. We welcome applications from candidates of all identities, including individuals of different races, ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations. If you're passionate about contributing to a culture of inclusion and collaboration, please apply.


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