Wrisk

Senior Data Engineer

Wrisk

full-time

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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