Senior Data Engineer

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Tasman is defining the future of Data Analytics-as-a-Service. We are a young and growing company funded fully by analytics & data science work for our ambitious clients.

We are hiring a senior data engineer at Tasman to:

• Take ownership of the design and implementation of data pipelines and platforms for our clients
• Mentor and develop other engineers to achieve their full potential
• Work with Data Product Manager to develop plans and roadmaps that deliver on client objectives each sprint and throughout the engagement
• Support and enable other functions within your team to deliver data products

You are someone who:

• Has solid technical foundations and is comfortable working in different cloud environments
• Enjoys learning new technologies, tooling and ways of working (in line with clients practices and technology preferences)
• Is passionate about bringing software engineering best practices into the data space
• Thrives working in a fast paced environment where you will be on multiple client projects concurrently
• Can plan out your workload and identify the compromises required to deliver early value to clients
• Is continuously looking for ways to improve what and how we deliver modern data products
• Is an excellent communicator and able to work closely with all functions in a business
• Is comfortable explaining their thinking and discussing different approaches to a problem to people with different technical backgrounds and knowledge

The Data Analytics teams at Tasman work closely with clients to translate business questions into tangible data insights. As a Data Engineer in one of our squads you will work with Analytics Engineers and Data Analysts to deliver data products such as customer acquisition models, customer retention models, user attribution models, and much more.

We are technology agnostic (but opinionated!) and work across all major cloud providers. Depending on client choice we may either leverage third party tools such as Fivetran, Airbyte, Stitch or build custom pipelines. We use the main data warehouses for dbt modelling and have extensive experience with Redshift, BigQuery and Snowflake. Recently we’ve been rolling out a serverless implementation of dbt and progressing work on internal product to build modular data platforms.

When initially working with clients, you will create a system diagram that maps out the existing tech and data stack. Using this as an opportunity to initiate discussions you will gather requirements from internal and external stakeholders. Technical assessment tasks set out system design for engineering solutions and will help de-risk engineering work. Part of this phase of work is to break work down into multiple stories and tasks. Once signed off, you will proactively work to implement the design on clients’ cloud infrastructure. You will champion software engineering best practices across the team and help other team members and engineers deliver their work.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you should have a solid knowledge of modern data and software engineering practices. You should have experience with building pipelines and data infrastructure in a cloud environment and understand the trade-offs of managed versus bespoke solutions. You are a proficient user of Python and SQL.

In summary you will be expected to:

• Independently implement in a data platform: Cloud infrastructure and services; Infrastructure as Code; Containerisation; Orchestration; Version Control Systems; Data Warehousing
• Have working knowledge of Python and SQL
• Promote best data security practices including: Identification and treatment of PII data; Client secrets management; Building secure data products and pipelines

Working with both internal and external stakeholders requires good communication skills. We are a remote-first company and use multi-functional teams. At every stage we ensure stakeholders know what we are delivering, and we transfer knowledge to clients in handover sessions.

In summary you will be expected to:

• Be confident in leading the client through engineering solutions that have their best interests in mind
• Be able to run multiple client projects concurrently and balance competing requirements
• Effectively communicate with clients and team members; provide updates on progress and blockers
• Be able to communicate technical information to a range of stakeholders

As the Senior Data Engineer within your squad you will work with other function seniors in steering the engineering output of the squad. You will share knowledge and mentor junior members of the team.

In summary you will be expected to:

• Work across functions to deliver client work, removing blockers and enabling access to data assets
• Contribute to Tasman’s data engineering capabilities and set technical excellence
• Mentor other Data Engineers to achieve their career goals
• Develop new ways of working to improve efficiency, quality and consistency
• Develop deep domain expertise to improve our ability to solve data problems

This is a remote role but you need to be based around our hubs in Amsterdam or London.