Senior Data Engineer - Insurance - Hybrid

Senior Data Engineer

Snowflake & DBT, SQL and Azure DevOps

City, London/Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Permanent

Up to £85,000 per annum + 15 % bonus + benefits

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Data Engineer with solid skills in Snowflake, SQL and Azure DevOps to join their existing team and support the definition and delivery of an enterprise data platform with engineering best practices. Specifically, this role will help the divisional data team (DDT) to understand, manage, and prioritise data engineering and transformation activities.

The role is reporting to the AVP Data engineering, who is responsible for prioritising, planning, and driving forward the data engineering and transformation tasks required.

This is an exciting opportunity to join this new team. The Senior Data engineer would fill a critical role within the organisation tasked with analysis, design, implementation, testing, maintenance, and support for data-intensive pipelines.

Also, you will play an integral role in enhancing system quality, identifying issues, and transforming applications through innovation.

This role will suit a tech-savvy individual with a strong drive for creativity, excellence, and ambition!

Duties

• Manage and lead the junior data engineers (1 direct report) who will assist with the delivery of data engineering activities.
• Prepare technical design specifications based on functional requirements and analysis documents.
• Implement, test, maintain, and support software, as outlined in technical design specifications.
• Enhance system quality through identification of issues, common patterns, and formulation of standard operating procedures.

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven experience in the market as an experienced Data engineer.
• Extensive experience with SQL cloud databases like Snowflake, and MS SQLServer.
• Experience with NoSQL databases like AWS DynamoDB and Azure Cosmos is a plus.
• Solid experience and clear understanding of one ETL tool (For eg: Matillion, SNP Glue, Fivetran, Informatica) and DBT.
• Experience working with AWS and/or Azure DevOps and extensive debugging experience.
• Clear understanding of data modelling, data curation, and orchestration
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools like PowerBI is a plus.
• Sound understanding of unit testing, test-driven development, functional testing, and performance aspects.
• Knowledge of at least one Shell Scripting language.

Senior Data Engineer

Snowflake & DBT, SQL and Azure DevOps

City, London/Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Permanent

Up to £85,000 per annum + 15 % bonus + benefits