Data Engineer

at  Pavers

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Data Engineer to join the Pavers Head Office Team at Northminster Business Park, York. This is a new position to join our growing Data Team. This role is offered as a full-time permanent opportunity in a growing business where you are encouraged to develop your skills in a supportive environment.
Our Data Engineering & Analytics Team have a key role to play in the business’s operations, and as a Data Engineer, you will assist in making data available in our Enterprise Data Hub so that our Analysts can draw out the insights and present to the business. The business is continually growing and evolving, moving at a fast pace, and good quality insightful data is key to ensuring this continues.
You’ll report into the Data Engineering Manager in the growing Data Engineering & Analytics Team. Your main responsibility will be to you will assist in the provision a new Enterprise Data Hub across the Pavers Group, so that it can be used in key reporting and analytic dashboards, whilst ensuring data is secure, accessible, and conforms to the relevant compliance legislation. The role will suit an individual who is highly technical, loves data, and is keen to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment. This is a great opportunity to help shape the future landscape of Data Engineering and Analytics using cutting edge technologies.

ABOUT US

Pavers has been trading for over 50 years and is a highly profitable and fast-growing family business with a strong balance sheet and a turnover over £200m. We also own the Jones Bootmaker, Herring Shoes, and Padders / Van Dal footwear business’, remain acquisitive, and employ over 1900 people.
We were recently recognised as one of the Top 5 employers in Retail (Best Companies) but are keen to improve on this position year on year, our goal is to be the best retailer to work for. We aim to better inform our colleagues and customers to join us in our commitment to making a meaningful impact on our local communities, our Pavers Foundation has donated £2.5m to date, and we see this role as instrumental in working closely with the Foundation team to continue to change lives, by donating to charities and causes close to the hearts of all our colleagues.
We are passionate about providing comfort and happiness to our customers, and we make sure to employ people who are as passionate as we are. We always look for happy, confident, upbeat people, and we provide great jobs in a supportive family environment for them. We know that without our colleagues there is no business, and so the better we look after you, the better service you will provide our customers. We always try and do the right thing by our people. Pavers are Carbon Neutral, and we are currently undertaking a significant expansion and modernisation of our York Head Office.
If this sounds like the kind of business you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you - please apply today for the role of Data Engineer

• Deliver first-class software solutions, which are secure, appropriately tested, perform well, and help provide an engaging customer experience
• Actively improve your engineering skills increasing your mastery level of our stack
• Play a proactive part in owning your team’s services, taking responsibility for support, monitoring, measuring performance and addressing technical issues when required
• Contribute enthusiastically to our continuous improvement of coding practices, application quality, tooling and agile processes
• Communicate constructively with peers, seniors and stakeholders in all settings
• Continuously evaluate team’s processes and procedures to maintain a positive and efficient engineering culture
• Directly contribute to the design and code of the data pipelines operating on secure, production data
• Contribute to the end-to-end design and implementation of common components that improve our ability to write efficient and reliable data pipelines
• Perform well-defined engineering tasks in a reasonable amount of time; doesn’t get caught up in the unknown; work to figure it out
• Actively embrace challenges, particularly when they offer the potential to create significant impact or value
• Endeavour to become an expert with at least one area or domain of the code/product
• Create and maintain quality technical documentation for any software you have developed, ensuring maintainability, readability and testability
• Conduct code reviews, pair programming and knowledge sharing sessions, embracing feedback at every step
• Involve yourself in code deployments, including raising and completing change requests to deploy to production
• Help grow the engineering team’s community presence through contributing to conferences, meet-ups, blog posts, open-source projects)
• Works effectively with other teams across the business, ensuring plans are timely and accurate
• Contributes to wider team discussions around innovation
• Raises issues/problems with work constructively