Data Engineering Lead | S4 | Data Centre of Excellence

Job title:

Data Engineering Lead | S4 | Data Centre of Excellence

Company

Santander

Job description

Data Engineering Lead | S4 | Data Centre of ExcellenceCountry: United KingdomInterested in part-time, job-share or flexible working? We want to talk to you!Join our community.We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineering Lead to join our Data Centre of Excellence in Unity Place – Milton Keynes.As Data Engineering Lead you’ll play a key role as a data lake and data warehousing SME having advance expertise in the development of an AWS (Cloud) data lake architecture. You’ll manage a small team of engineers, analysts, and designers, and deliver change across a portfolio of programmes within the engineering function. When managing this team, you’ll be responsible for the full technology life cycle including the creation of required reference architectures, designs and delivery best practices and procedures.If you’re someone who’s performed a similar role already, this is the perfect opportunity to develop your career.The difference you’ll make:

• Leading data engineering teams to design data pipelines that centre on maturing of develops approach and increasing our levels of automation
• Designing robust engineering and modern Devops solutions for the analytical data lake
• Ensuring enterprise data is catalogued in accordance with data governance standards through design, development and maintaining data solutions leveraging the power and flexibility of the data lake
• Establishing a delivery strategy which leverages the data platforms efficiently across the technology stack to ensure reuse and minimal duplication. To create golden source repositories that support business units and propositions alike
• Implementing solutions to prevent repetition of known issues/ risks and establish knowledge bases of lessons learned
• Working closely with enterprise and data architecture to ensure individual solutions fit into the overall group architecture

What you’ll bring:These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Expertise in cloud architecture ideally AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, Amazon EMR and SageMaker
• Proven experience in SQL and Non-SQL database technology relevant to the implementation of a data warehouse or data lake
• Experience implementing data ingestion, processing, transformation, and delivery using various methods such as batch, streaming, and real-time
• Knowledgeable with DevOps tools and methodologies such as Git, Jenkins, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Knowledge of ETL tools and frameworks such as Apache Spark, Airflow, AWS IoT Analytics, IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Events
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, SQL, Spark, and Unix shell scripting, including AWS CLI

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Experience with data pipelining, distributed data processing, software engineering components, and data modelling concepts (Spark)
• A degree or masters Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Desirable cloud certification. For example, AWS Certified Data Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate certification
• Experience in using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

What else you need to know:This permanent role is based in Unity Place – Milton Keynes.We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.Application processIf your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be :–1st Stage – A one-hour formal interview where we will ask both technical and competency-based questions. This can be done virtually or face to face depending on your situation.2nd Stage – Possibility of a 2nd stage if required.If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.InclusionAt Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.How we’ll reward you.As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

What to do next:-If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at [email protected] or call 0870 414 9080.

Expected salary

Location

Milton Keynes

Job date

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:53:43 GMT

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