Senior Data Engineer

at  Redkite

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Vacancy managed by: Max Mosley | Talent Acquisition & People Experience Lead
Flexible working hours and location: We trust you to work in a way that enables you to do your job well and at the times that suit you and your team. We offer tailored working arrangements to balance commercial needs and personal preferences. You will have the ability to work remotely from home, on-site with our clients and/or at our Central London office located in Barbican! Talk to us if you have any specific requirements.
Contract Type: Permanent

THE REDKITE TEAM & CULTURE:

Our team is connected by our values, these tell the story of what it feels like to work here at Redkite. Values that don’t sit on a PowerPoint slide, but are lived and breathed in all of our team:
Love your craft
Learn fearlessly
Simplify the complex
Bring others with you
Redkite’s culture of sharing and learning from one another helps us create a great environment to grow incredibly fast, learn fearlessly and therefore we’re constantly looking for excellent people to join our team to grow with us!
We’re a talented team of product managers, analysts, data architects, data engineers, data strategists, operations experts, data governance specialists and developers. We have a range of backgrounds spanning top consultancies, hyper-growth companies, and data functions in large, consumer-oriented organisations.
Don’t just take our word for it - we were voted in the Top 50 best workplaces in the UK

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Senior Data Engineers at Redkite are responsible for delivering high-quality data outcomes via modern data sourcing, integration and modelling techniques. You will work as part of a small Redkite delivery team and often be semi-embedded within a client team as well.
You will bring a mix of technical and non-technical skills, such as:

Technical

• Python & SQL: The ability to design and implement well designed code. These should follow industry best practice and be easily scalable and human readable
• Data modelling: The ability to design well structured tables that are at the correct grain and structured for widespread use (i.e. using Kimball modelling)
• Software engineering mindset: The ability to automate tasks and deploy production standard code (with unit testing, continuous integration, versioning etc.)

Non-technical

• Business insight: The ability to understand complex business processes and break down fuzzy requirements into actionable segments
• Coaching and training: The ability to collaborate effectively with both the client and Redkite teams - sharing your experience and helping others to grow their skillset

We’re tool agnostic, but often work with either the latest Azure or AWS stacks, where experience with at least one is essential.

YOU’LL DO GREAT HERE IF YOU HAVE:

• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud Platform, (GCP), AWS, Snowflake, or other modern cloud tools
• Commercial experience working with Databricks
• Commercial experience coding in PySpark
• Commercial exposure to Azure or AWS
• Commercial experience working with Microsoft Fabric
• Commercial expertise in building end-to-end data products
• A passion for building high-quality products which drive change for businesses
• A results-oriented mindset with an eye for detail and a passion for data
• Confident and concise communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment, collaboration and efficiency within teams
• Experience building effective CI/CD tools and processes
• Experience of effective data architecture
• Experience working with an engineering mindset (i.e. Agile development, Git, Jira)
• Experience building applications with languages such as C#
• Training or degree in a STEM subject
• Experience managing teams of data or BI engineers