
Data Engineer
Yu Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Leicester • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £35,000 - £40,000 per year
About the role
- Uphold and deliver data strategy aligned with business goals and industry best practices.
- Enforce data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality, integrity, and security.
- Ensure data compliance and security needs are met in system construction and access control.
- Apply security measures such as RLS and Column Masking to keep the data secure to the correct parties.
- Design, build, and optimise scalable data solutions using Snowflake, Azure Data Services, and DBT for data transformation and modelling.
- Support the Head of Data in managing the project prioritisation, identifying any potential threats to delivery.
- Optimise and validate performance and cost of data workloads within Snowflake (query tuning) and Azure environments.
- Use programming language to maintain data sets, databases, tables, data lakes or data warehouses.
- Implement big data tools such as Apache Spark / Kafka to automate data pipelines.
- Develop connections between multiple sources of data with APIs or database connectors.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including IT, finance, marketing, and operations, to understand their data needs and provide strategic guidance.
- Collaborate with the Senior Data Engineer, Data Engineers and Data Analysts to determine design needs.
- Contribute to the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to data quality, analytics, and business impact.
Requirements
- Degree educated or 2+ years’ experience in data engineering, data system development or related roles.
- Ability to build, maintain and improve upon data architecture, collection and storage systems.
- Fundamental understanding of core data engineering practices, metadata and SCD application.
- Proficiency in data warehousing (including the Lakehouse concept), relational databases and ETL.
- Ability to build and maintain data architectures, pipelines and sets.
- Working knowledge of key programming languages such with preference in machine learning
- Experience working with Apache Spark, Python, SQL and similar tools / programs.
- Experience working with modern cloud solutions such as Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric preferable.
- Strong knowledge of data governance, architecture, analytics, and emerging technologies.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements, especially in the of data protection and privacy.
- Strong understanding of the energy industry and related data challenges or ability to adapt and learn new information effectively and efficiently.
Benefits
- 24 Days Annual Leave + 1 Day Birthday Leave + Bank Holidays
- Holiday Buy – up to 5 additional day
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Annual Salary Review
- Learning and development opportunities
- Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption policies
- Yü made a difference Awards.
- 3 days additional annual leave if you get married/civil partnership etc.
- Appointment allowance
- Long service recognition
- Refer a friend payment.
- Company sick pay (subject to length of service)
- New modern facilities
- Death in service and critical illness cover
- Plus, many more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringdata architecturedata warehousingETLdata transformationdata modellingquery tuningprogramming languagesbig data toolsdata pipelines
Soft Skills
communication skillscollaborationstrategic guidanceproject prioritisationproblem-solvingadaptabilityinterpersonal skillstechnical concept explanation