Senior Data Engineer

JOB TITLE:  Data Engineering Manager 

SALARY: £70,929 - £74,869  

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh 

HOURS:  Full time  

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. 

About this opportunity 

Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We’re building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters. Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we’re there for customers in the moments that matter. We’re bold and we love to experiment. We’re not afraid to try out new ways of working and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive. 

As part of our Edinburgh based team, you will play a key part of an established Data Engineering team within the Waterfront Platform evolving our Insurance, Pension and Investment Digital Channels. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate who is passionate and experienced in designing and delivering modern data solutions. 

Day to day, you’ll be: 

• Collaborating with other engineering, product and business colleagues to implement data led product features to digitally modernise customer journeys.

• Building streaming data applications using industry leading toolsets that allow us to deliver data and analytics in near real time to customers and colleagues.

• Developing modern cloud hosted data stores that allow us to move away from legacy systems and benefit from the scalability and accessibility it offers. 

• Implementing pipelines that allow us to move, transform and visualise data seamlessly. 

• Managing and governing the data we own to maintain high quality, reliable and consumable data products. 

About us 

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose. 

What you’ll need 

• Proven experience of modern engineering practises like automated testing, test driven development and continuous integration for data pipelines using related tools.

• A “can-do” attitude with the ability to collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the initiative lifecycle.

• Knack of identifying new technologies, tools and approaches to help continually improve standards and quality. 

• Confidence to express their own opinions and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate.

• Coding/scripting knowledge developed in relevant industry setting (Java, Python, SQL).

• Strong skills in cloud IAM, networking, resource provisioning and infrastructure as code. 

• Display a DevOps mindset and ability to use tools like Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform. 

• Firm grasp of implementing data pipelines using Kafka, Pub/Sub, Dataflow and/or Dataproc technologies.  

• Extensive experience of operational data stores and data warehouses, and working with relational databases to build GCP based data solutions using CloudSQL, Spanner and/or BigQuery. 

• Well developed ability to design data systems for reliability, scalability and availability.  

• An ability to see the inherent value in data and the skills to story tell and visualise it through appropriate tools like Tableau and PowerBI. 

About working for us 

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.  

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.  

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. 

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. 

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:  

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15% 

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance  

• Share schemes including free shares 

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top 

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies 

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.