Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location:  Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 7th October 2024

The Senior Data Engineer will develop, test, implement and maintain large-scale data processing systems, pipelines, and infrastructure to support data-driven decision making for the organisation.

About the role

• Participating in the day-to-day operations of the data engineering function, ensuring that data engineering processes are running smoothly and efficiently, and addressing any issues or concerns that arise.
  • Data pipeline uptime and availability.
  • Data quality metrics.
  • Incident response time and resolution effectiveness.
  • Change management effectiveness.
  • Compliance with operational processes and controls.
  • Performance monitoring and optimisation.
• Ensuring that data engineering deliverables are completed on time, within budget and to required quality standards.
  • Develops data solutions within own area of technical expertise.
  • Work with data owners/SMEs to gather and store appropriate data for analysis.
  • Build pipelines that transform and combine data into formats that data analysts/scientists can use
  • Tuning of data stores for performant analysis.
  • Deliverable completion time and budget adherence.
  • Deliverable quality standards compliance.
  • Customer satisfaction with deliverable outcomes.
• Contributing towards identifying and implementing modern technologies and techniques to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of data engineering processes.
  • Technology adoption and implementation success.
  • Innovation impact on data engineering processes.
  • Innovation contribution to the data strategy.
• Responsible for collaborating with other teams, such as our Group Data Office and IT teams to ensure Royal London’s needs are met.

About you

• Strong skills using data querying languages.
• Technical knowledge of common data platform components.
• Solid experience in Azure cloud, Azure Databricks.
• Strong skills in Python, PySpark.
• Can work without supervision.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle.
• Awareness of agile development practices.
• Familiar with automated testing techniques and frameworks.

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging 

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.