Senior Data Engineer - Python - 736DEEP

Posted 45 minutes 14 seconds ago by Interface Recruitment

Permanent
Full Time
Other
Yorkshire, Leeds, United Kingdom, LS1 8
Job Description
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.