Senior Data Engineer - Python - 736DEEP

Job Title

Senior Data Engineer

The Role

• Chance to work with Cloud technology
• Big data environment
• Pioneering technology
• Truly creative / studio environment
• Flexbility
• Leeds City location but with free parking
• Friendly team with a one for all attitude

Summary of position

The senior data engineer will be working across our client and SaaS product development teams, working in a variety of Agile (Scrum, DSDM, Kanban) and traditional project delivery frameworks. Our data engineers are expected to know at least two scripting/OO/functional languages.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a broad knowledge of the technology landscape helping the client provide market-leadingconsultancy services
• Assist our clients in enterprise-scale projects utilising best-practice development methodologies, well-tested code, and elegant solutions.
• Get stuff done properly, first time around.
• Make it right and only then make it fast.
• Spend as much time thinking about tests and security as on writing code.
• Work with a team of like-minded high-calibre engineers to translate user requirements into workingcode
• Mentoring and assisting in the progress of others
• Lead definition and maintenance of best practice and standards in development and design principlesand process
• Have excellent team work, leadership and communication skills

If you see something that's broken, fix it. That includes the coffee machine.

Skills & Experience

The senior data engineer should have a broad experience of highly available, transactional and scalable solutions.

• Strong web & server-side development experience
• An understanding of data modelling - from 3NF through to denormalisation for analysis.
• A working knowledge of software development delivery in a Scrum environment
• Broader knowledge of IT - Networking, platform, hardware, security
• TDD/BDD
• Experience of moving in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Working knowledge of at least one Cloud provider (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS)

Exceptional stakeholder management skills & experience

Above all, the senior data engineer must be open to new technologies, quick to adapt, and quick to learn.

Location

The Role will be based at a Leeds office. Travel to client sites may be required from time-to-time.