At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Big Data Engineer

Location:   London  
Salary:   Competitive
Hours:    37.5

COVID-19 Notice: We are continuing recruitment and have implemented new processes that promote candidate and employee safety. As part of this we have moved to a virtual hiring and onboarding process until further notice

Join Vodafone UK Big Data and work with sophisticated technologies, turning unstructured data into something pragmatic, to solve real-world problems. You will work with cutting edge technology and work on the most interesting business and optimisation challenges.

The Big Data Team has a fantastic spirit and culture of collaboration. This continuously encourages everyone to bring forward innovation and creative ideas to deliver tangible benefits to Vodafone, our customers and the environment, via smart and secured use of data.

What will you be doing?

As a Big Data Engineer, you will work closely with the team and our stakeholders to build and deliver our Cloud based vision for a next generation Big Data analytics platform.

You will have a focus on data quality, data security and deliver the systems that process huge volumes of data.  Working with our Data Scientists to help drive the company strategy and marketing campaigns out to our customers.

By applying machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques we're building a data driven company to better meet customers’ needs and offer them truly personalised services and products and deliver them a great customer experience.

Who are we looking for? 

You will have;
• Worked on a cloud based Big Data services such as Amazon EMR and/ or GCP Dataproc
• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Hive / Presto/ Impala)
• Strong software development experience in Python
• Experience in designing, building and managing applications to process large amounts of data in a Hadoop ecosystem
• Worked in an Agile team producing frequent deliverables.

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive and flexible benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family. We’re proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility for individuals returning to work after a career break. From our market-leading parental leave policies through to employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes we are committed to supporting you throughout your career with Vodafone.

Together we can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

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