Senior Data Engineer

The Citation Group
Telford
4 days ago
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Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer


Salary: up to £65,000


Location: Hybrid – 1 day per fortnight in the Wilmslow offices


Working hours 0900 to 1730


The Role

Following recent investment, The Citation Group are looking to build out their data capabilities to be Best in Class. As such, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a strong data engineer to work in the data engineering team, to expand and maintain the data infrastructure that provides the foundations from which our BI, Data Science and Operational Data teams deliver insights and revenue to the functions across the wider group.

We’re looking for an individual who has experience working with enterprise grade data pipelines and infrastructure, who can implement processes on our modern tech stack with robust, pragmatic solutions.

Responsibilities

  • develop, and maintainETL/ELT data pipelinesusing AWS services Data, Databricks and dbt
  • Manage and optimizedata storage solutionssuch as Amazon S3, Redshift, RDS, and DynamoDB.
  • Implement and manageinfrastructure-as-code (IaC)using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
  • Monitor and optimize the performance, cost, and scalability of data infrastructure.
  • Develop data access policies and implementsecurity best practicesfor data in transit and at rest.
  • Supportdata ingestion from structured and unstructured sources, including APIs, streaming data, and batch loads.
  • Work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, and Software Engineers to provide data access and tooling.

The Person

We are looking for someone who can roll their sleeves up and ‘dig in’ with the rest of the team. In addition, the successful candidate should have:

  • Excellent writing and communication skills with an attention to detail
  • Experience designing data warehouse technical architectures and infrastructure components
  • Experience deploying could data infrastructure services
  • Programming experience in Python
  • Experience writing, troubleshooting, and debugging advanced SQL queries
  • Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience working with ETL/ELT, and reporting and analytic tools

Skills and experience we’d love you to have… But if not? We’ll help you get there:

  • Understanding of cloud computing security concepts
  • Proficiency with IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster).
  • Good understanding of Cloud providers – AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
  • Familiarity with DBT, Delta Lake, Databricks
  • Experience working in Agile environments with tools like Jira and Git.

About Us

We are Citation. We are far from your average service provider. Our colleagues bring their brilliant selves to work every day and we create an environment where they can shine. We are a nice bunch. We don’t do office politics or “that’s not my job”. We listen, support and take ownership.

We have been proudly delivering valuable HR and Health and Safety services to SME’s across the UK for over 20 years. Passionate about service, we’re on a mission to revolutionise our colleague’s and client’s experience by employing brilliant people who are experts at what they do and smile whilst they are doing it.

Working for Citation you will have access to 25 days holiday, plus your birthday off work, gym membership discount, healthcare, childcare vouchers, the opportunity to purchase extra leave, pension contributions and more.

It’s a great place to work because of the people we employ. Fun and professional, we want likeminded individuals who love to love their job and want the Company to succeed.

So, if our culture sounds like a good fit for you and you want to be part of our success story, then send us your details.

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