Data Engineer (contract)

Company Description

On May 31, 2023, Viasat completed its acquisition of Inmarsat, combining the teams, technologies and resources of the two companies to create a new global communications partner. 

About Viasat 

Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. With offices in 24 countries around the world, our mission shapes how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate and connect. Viasat is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, reliable, secure, affordable, fast connections to positively impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at sea, while building a sustainable future in space.

Commercial & Digital Solutions (CDS)

CDS is enabling safer, more efficient, more sustainable operations wherever businesses operate on land. Our customers trust us to deliver the industry standard in reliable mobile satellite connectivity, underpinning mission critical communications, remote operations, machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). With expertise in agriculture, aid and NGO, media, mining, oil and gas, renewables, transport and utilities we build solutions that deliver transformational outcomes and ensure the right level of ongoing management.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the full back-end data architecture on behalf of the Data Led Sales team
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architectures
• Coordinate effectively with the resources within the team and build relationships with other teams (including the Data Engineering team, the Insights Analytics & Reporting team and Product teams etc.)
• Provide coaching and support on data engineering best practices to the other members of the team to ensure that the end-to-end solutions are robust, high performing and scalable
• Push the team to take their end-to-end tools to the next level and provide them the data foundations to do so

Qualifications

Essential:

• Extensive SQL expertise (ideally with Google Big Query)
• Strong hands on experience with source code control tools such as Git
• Experience building and orchestrating pipelines in DBT
• Strong python skills

Desirable:

• Experience working within an agile team and familiarity with JIRA
• Degree in a Data Science or Computer Science related discipline
• Experience with end user data and visualisation tools such as Tableau
• Experience working with APIs

Additional Information

You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.

Our culture and ways of working 

Our values define our culture and represent what we believe in. Viasat employees aspire to behaviours that support our values, which create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation. 

• Customer – we provide a unique value to our customers 
• Accountability – we take ownership, we deliver results, and we keep our promises 
• Respect – we collaborate, we embrace and celebrate diversity and we value difference 
• Excellence – we create bold solutions for our customers and put quality at the heart of everything we do 

We also value and encourage a healthy work-life balance, so we offer flexible working wherever possible. Depending on the operational requirements of your job and your team, we can offer compressed hours (nine-day fortnight), hybrid office-remote working, and flexibility during your working day to take care of personal commitments. 

Diversity

We want the best people for the job, and we warmly welcome applications from you if you’re suitably qualified and eligible, regardless of your sex, gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, gender identity, neurodiverse qualities, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, or maternity status. 

We are signed up to the Halo Hair Code, which aims to protect employees who come to work with natural hair and protective hairstyles associated with their racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. 

To give you the best experience possible during your application process and interview, we can make adjustments. For example, if you’re visually impaired we’ll happily meet you locally and help you find your way to our office, or if you have neurodiverse qualities, we can provide you with additional support to help you prepare for your interview. Please let our Resourcing Team know if there are any ways in which we can support you.