
Junior Data Engineer
Bionic
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Build and maintain batch data pipelines across AWS, Snowflake and dbt
- Develop and improve dbt models and tests to keep our data accurate and consistent
- Monitor scheduled jobs and data quality checks, investigating issues when things go wrong
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures and performance problems, learning from post-mortems
- Work closely with Analytics and Salesforce teams to understand requirements and turn them into technical solutions
- Contribute to documentation, version control and code reviews
- Follow secure engineering practices when handling sensitive data
- Help design and maintain analytics-ready data models, including clear fact and dimension tables
Requirements
- Experience building or supporting data pipelines, reporting datasets, or ETL/ELT processes
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug issues and clearly explain your approach
- Good SQL capability (joins, aggregations, basic window functions) and confidence writing data transformations
- Working knowledge of Python for data tasks (scripts, automation, APIs/files), with appetite to deepen skills
- Familiarity with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses (queries, compute, roles/access basics)
- Ability to work in a structured delivery environment (tickets, priorities, deadlines)
- A collaborative mindset, be coachable, and open to feedback through pairing, reviews, and mentoring
- Ability to navigate ambiguous requirements, ask smart questions, and iterate towards solutions
- Exposure to BI tools such as Tableau (or similar) and how data is used for reporting
Benefits
- Private healthcare cover
- Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies
- Eyecare scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays, increasing with tenure
- 1 paid family/religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period
- 1 paid charity volunteering day per year
- Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year
- Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
- 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service
- Flexible working options & a hybrid work approach
- Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure
- Cycle to work scheme
- Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success
- Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition
- Long service awards
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesETLELTSQLPythondbtdata transformationsdata quality checksanalytics-ready data modelsfact and dimension tables
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcollaborative mindsetcoachabilityopen to feedbackability to navigate ambiguous requirementsstrong communicationdebuggingiterative approachattention to detailadaptability