Senior Data Engineer

IRIS Software Group
London
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IRIS Software Group is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies. Its purpose is to be the most trusted provider of mission-critical software and services, ensuring customers get it right first time, every time.

IRIS takes the pain out of processes and let professionals working in businesses and schools focus on the work they love. Its software solutions and services for finance, HR and payroll teams, educational organisations, and accountancy firms helps comply with regulations, drive productivity and better engage with key stakeholders. Through simplifying, automating and providing insights on everyday mission-critical tasks for organisations of all shapes and sizes, IRIS ensures customers can look forward with certainty and confidence.

IRIS has over 120,000 UK and international customers with 80% having a tenure of five or more years. IRIS is the largest third-party online filer with the UK Government. Ninety-one of the top 100 UK accountancy firms and 50 of the top 100 US CPA firms use IRIS software. Circa 20% of the UK’s workforce is paid by IRIS payroll offerings. More than 850,000 UK employees are managed by IRIS HR solutions. Over 11,000 UK schools and academies use IRIS, with four million parents and guardians using IRIS apps to connect with their children’s school; 300 million messages are delivered between schools and parents each year, and over £15 million transactional payments are processed every month. IRIS is placed 93rd in the Grant Thornton Sunday Times Top Track 250, which is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each September, celebrates Britain's private mid-market growth companies with the biggest performance.

Purpose :

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the planning, development, and design of data engineering processes within a customer-facing data warehousing product. This product plays a critical role in delivering analytics solutions for both the State and Commercial sectors.

To be successful in this role you will work with the product and engineering team to identify valuable data sources and analyse trends in the data for our customers. You will build predictive models and work with the engineering team to provide further insights to our customers.

You will of course be competent in agile data development, with a focus on innovation and positive disruption. You’ll know how to get the best from a customer facing data warehouse solutions and be able to improve the value of data through research and discovery.

This is a great opportunity for you to join a growing and investing product and customer centric business, with the significant opportunity for you to share and grow your skillset.

Qualification :

  • BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Data Science or a related technical field
  • SQL experience (No-SQL experience is a plus)

Experience :

  • 3+ years Experience in Data Engineering
  • Experience of Azure, AWS or GCP cloud platforms and Data Lake/Warehousing Platforms such as Snowflake, Iceberg etc
  • Experience of various ETL and Streaming Tools (Flink, Spark)
  • Experience of a variety of data mining techniques (APIs, GraphQL, Website Scraping)
  • Ability to translate Data into meaningful insights
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Understanding of modern lean agile software development processes
  • Disciplined management ability: caring about process, quality, setting and managing expectations

Seniority level

  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment typeFull-time

Job function

  • Job functionInformation Technology
  • IndustriesSoftware Development

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