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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Nerve Centre Data Engineer

• Working in the Nerve Centre of our Chief Executive Office, you’ll use your data engineering expertise to deliver fantastic solutions to our internal customers
• You’ll be simplifying our bank by developing innovative data driven solutions, inspiring commercial success through insight and keeping our customers and the bank safe and secure
• Participating actively in the data engineering community, you’ll deliver opportunities that support our strategic direction while building your network and raising your profile across the bank

What you'll do

We’ll look to you to drive value for the customer through modelling, sourcing and data transformation. You’ll be working closely with core technology and architecture teams to deliver strategic data solutions, while driving Agile and DevOps adoption in the delivery of data engineering.

You'll be mostly remote, with occasional travel to one of our hub locations in Edinburgh, London or Poland to work with a cross-functional team and collaborate in short design and development sprints.

We’ll also expect you to be:

• Delivering the automation of data engineering pipelines through the removal of manual stages
• Developing comprehensive knowledge of the bank’s data structures and metrics, advocating change where needed for product development
• Educating and embedding new data techniques into the business through role modelling, training and experiment design oversight
• Delivering data engineering strategies to build a scalable data architecture and customer feature rich dataset for data scientists
• Developing solutions for streaming data ingestion and transformations in line with streaming strategy
• Participating actively in the data engineering community, delivering opportunities to support our strategic direction while building a network across the bank

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be an intermediate level programmer and Data Engineer with a qualification in Computer Science or Software Engineering. You’ll also need a strong understanding of data usage and dependencies with wider teams and the end customer, as well as a proven track record in extracting value and features from large scale data.

You’ll have a strong degree of autonomy, be full of great ideas and always be keen to learn and be able to drive development of high-quality data solutions for use across the bank.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Experience of ETL technical design, automated data quality testing, QA and documentation, data warehousing, data modelling and data wrangling
• Extensive experience using RDMS, ETL pipelines, Python, Hadoop and SQL
• A good understanding of modern code development practices
• Good critical thinking and proven problem solving abilities

It would be ideal if you have experience of using Oracle, Unix scripting, Java, cloud, API, NoSQL and Kafka.

If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats or special requirements to access our buildings, or if you’re eligible under the Disability Confident Scheme please contact us and we’ll do everything we can to help.