
Senior Data Engineer
Wrisk
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £70,000 - £80,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, build, and operate data ingestion and ETL/ELT pipelines for our data systems that power Atto products and customer-facing applications.
- Build and maintain our data platform architecture and infrastructure, including data pipelines, warehouses that power analytics and product features and reporting.
- Implement data modelling, schema design, and data contracts to make datasets easy to consume.
- Introduce and maintain observability, data quality checks, and automated testing for our production data flows.
- Driving impact at scale by improving data workflows, service reliability, and making Atto’s capabilities faster, more reliable and widely accessible.
- Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to translate market signals and customers’ needs into innovative data-driven solutions.
- Create new systems and approaches, while continuously improving and scaling existing ones for performance, reliability, and efficiency.
- Conduct deep analysis of transactional datasets to validate data models, surface data quality issues, and propose engineering fixes.
- Optimise performance and cost of data processing and storage across cloud services.
- Communicate technical findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across the business.
- Stay current with industry developments, emerging technologies, and best practices in data engineering.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data/Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering with a proven track record of delivering scalable, production-grade data platforms and data models.
- Strong SQL skills and proven experience designing, building and optimising data pipelines and data warehouse schemas.
- Strong proficiency in Python for production data engineering with a focus on building maintainable, testable and clean code.
- Track record of implementing data quality, observability, monitoring and testing practices.
- Solid experience with at least one cloud provider (Azure, AWS or GCP), and their managed data services.
- Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and working in containerised environments.
- Familiarity with modern data stack tools: Databricks, Snowflake or RedShift, etc.
- Experience working with reporting and modelling tools such as Power BI, including designing performant data models and supporting self-serve analytics.
- Advanced experience in pattern recognition with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
- A results-oriented mindset, able to take concepts from ideation through to tangible outputs.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment, balancing multiple priorities with agility.
- A proactive and collaborative approach, with a willingness to iterate, share knowledge, and challenge assumptions constructively
- Bonus Points (We’re getting greedy)
- Experience building or scaling data platforms in large-scale, regulated data environments.
- Experience with DevOps for data, platform engineering, or building large data pipelines and real-time data streaming systems.
- Exposure to working in a high-growth, evolving environment where the customer is at the heart of product and engineering decisions.
Benefits
- A team of passionate, interesting people committed to your development and success
- £70-£80k gross/pension
- Personal training and Continuous Professional Development budget (CPD)
- Uncapped bike to work scheme
- Half-day Fridays every last week of the month to recharge
- Wellness partnerships
- In-person and virtual team events and workshops
- Volunteering (Social Good Connect partnership)
- 33 days holiday allowance to take when you want
- £200 home working contribution to make sure you have everything you need to do your best work (get comfy - we want you to stay)
- Ask us about our remote-first, flexible culture - this is core to who we are, and we're rated one of Scotland's most flexible employers
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringSQLPythondata pipelinesdata warehouse schemasdata qualityobservabilityCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codedata modelling
Soft Skills
results-oriented mindsetcollaborative approachagilitycommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingproactiveadaptabilityinnovationcustomer-focused
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Data EngineeringBachelor's degree in Software Engineering