
Data Engineer
Quantexa
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Liverpool • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Junior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDockerElasticSearchGradleHadoopJavaJenkinsPythonScalaSpark
About the role
- Build end-to-end data pipelines and configure Quantexa’s decisioning platform to detect key insights
- Write defensive, fault-tolerant and efficient production-level code for data processing systems
- Configure and deploy Quantexa software using tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Scala and Elasticsearch on private and public clouds (Google Cloud, Azure, AWS)
- Manage, transform and cleanse high-volume data to help clients solve problems in fraud, financial crime, data management, risk and customer intelligence
- Act as a trusted source of technical knowledge for clients and articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Collaborate with solution architects and R&D engineers to champion solutions, standards and best practices for complex big data challenges
- Work from the Liverpool office (near Liverpool Science Park) and attend client sites as required
Requirements
- At least 18 months of industry experience in a data engineering role or equivalent
- Hands-on technical development background, preferably with some software industry experience
- Proficiency in Scala, Java, Python or similar programming languages (primary language is Scala)
- Experience building and deploying production-level data processing batch systems
- Experience with Spark and Hadoop
- Experience with Elasticsearch
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon/AWS)
- Experience with modern development tooling (Git, Gradle, Nexus)
- Experience with DevOps and automation tooling (Jenkins, Docker, Bash scripting)
- Knowledge of testing libraries (e.g., ScalaTest) and understanding of unit vs integration tests
- Strong technical communication ability and experience working in rapidly changing client environments
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Company bonus
- 25 days annual leave (option to buy up to 5 days, roll over up to 10) plus national holidays and your birthday off
- Pension scheme with a company contribution of 6% (when you contribute 3%)
- Private Healthcare with AXA, including dental & optic cover
- Life Insurance and Income Protection
- Regularly bench-marked salary rates
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
- Well-being days
- Volunteer Day off
- Work from Home Equipment
- Commuter, Tech and cycle to work schemes
- Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice scheme
- Free Calm App Subscription
- Continuous Training and Development, including access to Udemy Business
- Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy
- Employee Referral Program
- Team Social Budget and Company-wide Socials
ATS Keywords
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Hard skills
data pipelinesproduction-level codedata processing systemsScalaJavaPythonSparkHadoopElasticsearchdata management
Soft skills
technical communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingarticulating technical conceptstrusted source of technical knowledge