Data Engineer

Rentokil Initial

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Mid-LevelSenior

ApacheAWSAzureBigQueryCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPythonSparkSQL

About the role

Build and operate the Data and Analytics platform for Rentokil Initial
Define data principles, data architecture and data governance for the data platform
Deliver data quality assessments and improvement plans
Deliver key reports and analytical insight to a wide variety of stakeholders
Support the data agenda with platform reporting and strategy
Develop and maintain data integration processes to ensure data quality and accuracy
Deliver quality data engineering solutions of low-moderate complexity without clear requirements
Transform data to support data analysts and business leaders
Build and design a scalable and extensible data architecture
Develop and maintain data processing platforms and frameworks
Build infrastructure, data pipelines and production of analytical models
Research industry innovation and encourage continuous learning
Design and implement data warehousing solutions to support reporting and analytics
Identify and troubleshoot data issues and provide solutions
Work closely with business teams to understand data needs
Collaborate with other data engineers to ensure data consistency and integrity
Continuously monitor and optimise data performance and scalability
Stay up-to-date with new technologies and best practices in data engineering
Ensure data platform security standards are met with the Information Security team

Good understanding and track record of delivering complex data solutions using Agile methods including Scrum, SAFe etc.
Excellent communication skills, capable of talking to people across IT and business, as well as to stakeholders at various levels of the company
Hands-on approach, proactive and self starting
Desire to deliver the best quality and meet the client’s needs
Advanced experience in designing and creating data models
Strong with SQL for data interrogation and transformation, a robust understanding of relational data and the ability to manipulate fact data along multiple dimensions
Experience with deploying solutions in Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), ideally GCP
Overall business intelligence knowledge
Experience using ETL tools to deliver data integration for batch and streaming use cases
Willingness to self-study and learn new skills to handle any upcoming tasks
Hands-on experience of modern software CI/CD techniques to automate the build and deployment of data solutions
Use of source code version control (e.g. Git, Bitbucket)
Desirable: experience with real-time processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark or Apache Beam)
Desirable: experience working with BigQuery, Java and/or Python
Experience working with and adhering to Information Security standards, support procedures and incident response