Senior Data Engineer

Luton/Hybrid

Job Purpose

With a big investment into Databricks, and with a large amount of interesting data, this is the chance for you to come and be part of an exciting transformation in the way we store, analyse and use data in a fast paced organisation.

You will join as a Senior Data Engineer providing technical leadership to the Data Engineering team. You will play a major role in adhering to big data best practices whilst building and maintaining reliable data pipelines and products across a range of exciting projects. Bringing a wealth of technical experience in big data platforms combined with excellent skills in development. This role will support the business on the journey from a greenfield big data estate to a mature data lead organisation

What You’ll Need To Do The Role

• Develop robust, scalable data pipelines to serve the easyJet analyst and data science community.
• Building orchestration for data pipelines using tools such as Airflow, Jenkins and GitHub actions.
• Highly competent hands-on experience with relevant Data Engineering technologies, such as Databricks, Spark, Spark API, Python, SQL Server, Scala
• Help the business harness the power of data within easyJet, supporting them with insight, analytics and data science.
• Work in a fast-paced agile scrum environment with a release within sprint mentality.
• Coach and mentor the team to improve development standards.
• Work with Technical Architects to define patterns and standards for designs.
• Work with Business Analysts to deliver against requirements and realise business benefits.
• Build a documentation library and data catalogue for all data pipelines/products.
  
  
  

What You’ll Get In Return

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• 7% pension
• Life Insurance
• Work Away Scheme
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits
  
  
  

Skills & Experience

• Technical Ability: has a high level of current, technical competence in relevant technologies, and be able to independently learn new technologies and techniques as our stack changes.
• Clear communication; can communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms with technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Complex problem-solving ability; structured, organised, process-driven and outcome-oriented. Able to use historical experiences to help with future innovations.
• Significant experience designing and building data solutions on a cloud based, big data distributed system.
• Significant experience with Python, and experience with modern software development and release engineering practices (e.g. TDD, CI/CD).
• Significant experience with Apache Spark or any other distributed data programming frameworks (e.g. Flink, Arrow, MapR).
• Significant experience with SQL – comfortable writing efficient SQL.
• Experience using enterprise scheduling tools (e.g. Apache Airflow, Spring DataFlow, Control-M)
• Experience with Linux and containerisation
  
  
  

What You’ll Get In Return

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• 7% pension
• Life Insurance
• Work Away Scheme
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits
  
  
  

Business Area

Information Technology (IT)

Primary Location

United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport

Organisation

Information Technology (IT)

Schedule

Full-time

Unposting Date

Ongoing