Senior Data Engineer

About MoneyboxMoneybox is the award-winning app that helps you turn your money into something greater. We’ve brought saving, investing, home-buying, and retirement services all together into one simple app, so it’s easier than ever to achieve your goals and build wealth, whatever your starting point.
Job BriefMoneybox is growing rapidly, and our technical and data teams are no exception. We have more users, more accounts, more money invested, more features, more systems, more code, more data and more teams than ever before. We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer who can maintain and improve our existing data infrastructure, while continuing to build out our abilities, as well as contribute expertise across the board. In this unique role, you’ll be the interface between the backend and insight teams, collating, ingesting and organising data to drive action and results.

What You’ll Do

• As a Senior Data Engineer at Moneybox, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers our business. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing robust data pipelines and integrations, ensuring the seamless and accurate flow of data between our systems. A core focus of this role is to guarantee data integrity and reliability, especially as we scale and integrate new tools. This role will be responsible for but not limited to:


• Own, maintain, and improve our data processing and analytical platforms to ensure resiliency.
• Act as a best practice resource for optimization and performance for the Insight and Backend teams.
• Build and maintain new integrations to ingest and integrate new sources of data.
• Work with Backend and Insight teams to build and maintain a reliable, meaningful, and accurate core data catalogue which stays up-to-date as our products grow and change.
• Work with tech teams and Compliance to ensure that analytical data and supporting platforms are secure, appropriately restricted, and comply with policy.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and help insight and tech teams understand where new technology could pragmatically deliver value .
• Manage and monitor the cost, efficiency, and speed of data processing.

Our Data Tech Stack

• Azure Cloud (SQL Server, Databricks, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage)
• ETL/ELT (Python, Spark, SQL)
• Messaging (Service Bus, Event Hub)
• DevOps (Azure DevOps, Github Actions, Terraform)

Who you are

• A driven, ambitious individual who’s looking to build their career at an exciting fast-growing company.
• An independent worker who is able to proactively gather and reconcile priorities and requirements from multiple stakeholders.
• Someone with a curious mindset who is motivated by improving processes and organising information in practical ways.
• Naturally personable, great communicator who has a passion for their work and the people they work with.
• Excited about being part of a fast-growing company that’s trying to make a positive mark on the world.

Essential skills

• Designing, building and maintaining robust and scalable data pipelines
• Proficiency in ELT and ETL processes and tools
• Ability to write efficient code for data extraction, transformation, and loading (eg. Python, Spark and SQL)
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (particularly Azure Databricks and SQL Server)
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

Desirable skills

• NoSQL databases (eg. Cosmos DB, DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Message queues and event streaming platforms (e.g. Service Bus, Event Hub)
• Infrastructure-as-code (eg. Terraform)
• Knowledge of API design principles (REST APIs), authentication, and security

Our Commitment to DE&IAt Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential
Working Policy:We have a hybrid policy that includes 2 days from our London office and 3 from home. If the role states it is either hybrid or remote candidates must be based within the UK.
Visa Sponsorship:At this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.
Please read before you apply!Please note if offered a position, the offer is conditional and subject to the receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks which we will conduct such as criminal record and adverse credit history checks. As a regulated financial business, an adverse financial history could impact your suitability for the role. If you are aware of anything that could affect your suitability for the role, please let us know in advance. By sending us your application you acknowledge and agree to Moneybox using your personal data as described below.
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