What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer position at UNiDAYS Ltd?
*this role is open to remote working within the UK. Successful candidates will be required to travel to their closest UNiDAYS campus (London or Nottingham) on occasion.
The role in a nutshell
The role is responsible for all stages to deliver data and support report output projects. Projects will start with requirements gathering from a range of stakeholders (both inside and out of the organisation) to be merged and prioritised, leading to a data design specification of the work, then peer reviewed and discussed with the team.
Projects will continue with full stack development; implementation of data mart design in the data warehouse, development of any required ETL (in Talend Data Integration environment), testing/QA/proof of correctness, supporting development of any new/updated reports (Tableau environment), production release, and documentation.
Support to colleagues is essential for this role, including; career development, coaching, and co-development/design.
This role, along with the rest of the team, is also responsible for the continued availability of the existing data platform at UNiDAYS for both reporting and analysis; monitoring, response to support tickets, fixes to issues.
Other responsibilities will include participating (and sometimes running) team meetings, providing expert domain advice to the business (e.g. helping evaluate the data elements of a vendor selection), representing the team in various cross department contexts.
Work for this role will both be allocated by more senior members of the team or delegated for self-allocation.
What we need from you
The situations that an individual entering the job should have experienced or, at least, to have had some exposure:
- Data Warehouse design
- SQL development
- ETL development
- Talend tools preferable, or equivalent
- Support Report developers
- Tableau tools preferable, or equivalent
- End to end BI development (requirements to report delivery)
- AWS data systems development
- S3, Redshift, RDS, Athena, etc
- Big Data platform development
- Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Spark, etc
- Working with Insight Analysts/Data Scientists and their environments;
- e.g. R, Jupyter, Scala
- Some form of non-BI programming experience
- e.g. application, website, systems development
- Experience of developing in, or learning, industry useful programming languages;
- e.g. Java, Python, Ruby
About UNiDAYS Tech
People are our lifeblood. Everyone is unique and everyone matters equally. All of our team bring their own skills and personality and each has an equal input in not only what we do, but also how we do it. Some people aspire to greater influence, others want to be the very best version of who they are now. A team needs the whole spectrum.
We value learning and critical thinking. We will provide you with access to a learning platform so that you are free to continue to learn and develop at your own pace. We’ll give you time to do this as well.
Perks
We've accomplished a lot since we started in 2011, but this is still day one. We are all still learning and always will be.
We offer a fast paced, fun & social working environment where you can truly make an impact with your work and where continuous learning is to be supported and encouraged. We work hard at UNiDAYS, but we also believe in fair compensation for hard work. That's why we're pleased to offer all employees full access to our comprehensive benefits package. This includes:
- 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service plus flexible bank holidays
- Company bonus scheme
- Company pension scheme
- Company share option scheme
- Private health insurance
- Income protection policy
- Life assurance policy
- Enhanced parental leave pay
- 4pm finish on Fridays
- Remote working within the UK (infrequent travel to campuses for meetings required)
We are an equal opportunity employer and truly believe in the value of diversity of thought and being. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender preference, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.