Senior Data Engineer

Posted 13hrs ago

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Senior Data Engineer enhancing Dotdigital's data platform and capabilities. Designing data pipelines and collaborating with teams to unlock the value of data.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build scalable, reliable, and secure data pipelines for streaming, batch, and real-time processing.
  • Work in partnership with the Data Science teams to build scalable Pyspark workloads that can be leveraged to generate advanced models.
  • Implement and optimise data models and storage solutions using Python and SQL with orchestration tools in a cloud environment.
  • Leverage AI to automate both data processing and engineering processes.
  • Advocate and uphold best practices for data governance, security, and monitoring.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, analysts, and data scientists to deliver impactful data solutions.
  • Mentor and support junior engineers in data engineering principles and practices.
  • Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to strengthen data services.

Requirements:

  • Significant experience delivering Python-based projects for data engineering.
  • Experience building and tuning spark pipelines that run at scale across large quantities of data.
  • Strong hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra).
  • Proven experience with modern data warehousing and large-scale processing (e.g. Snowflake, DBT, BigQuery, Clickhouse).
  • Proficient with data orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) for data processing and storage.
  • Practical experience with Kafka or equivalent event-driven architectures (e.g. AWS SQS, Azure EventHubs, AWS Kinesis).
  • Good understanding of data modelling for OLAP and OLTP workloads.
  • Familiar with agile methodologies and CI/CD processes in the context of data solutions.
  • Experienced as a senior team member on complex data engineering projects.
  • Able to design and optimise data structures for high-volume systems.
  • Experienced in assisting with data platform modernisation or migration to the cloud.
  • Takes initiative to solve challenging data issues and drive projects forward.

Benefits:

  • Parental leave
  • Medical benefits
  • Paid sick leave
  • Dotdigital day
  • Share reward
  • Wellbeing reward
  • Wellbeing Days
  • Loyalty reward
  • DEI commitment