Data Engineer

Rentokil Pest Control South Africa; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global pest control firm is seeking a Data Engineer to build and operate their Data and Analytics platform. This pivotal role involves defining data principles, delivering quality data solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders. Ideal candidates will possess strong communication skills, a solid understanding of Agile methods, and hands-on experience with cloud technologies. The role offers a hybrid working model and various benefits including competitive salary and holiday package.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonus scheme

Hybrid working

23 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

Death in service benefit

Healthcare

Free parking

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in delivering complex data solutions with Agile methods.
• Strong SQL skills for data manipulation across multiple dimensions.
• Experience deploying solutions in cloud environments, ideally GCP.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data integration processes for data accuracy.
• Build and design scalable data architecture and pipelines.
• Collaborate with business teams to understand data needs.

Skills

Agile methodologies

SQL for data interrogation

Communication skills

Cloud deployment (Azure, AWS, GCP)

ETL tools

CI/CD techniques

BigQuery

Apache Spark

Data modeling

Tools

Git

Python

Java

Job description

Build and operate the Data and Analytics platform for Rentokil Initial.

This role will be pivotal to:

• Defining data principles, data architecture and data governance for the data platform
• Delivering data quality assessments and improvement plans
• Directly and indirectly, delivering key reports and analytical insight to a wide variety of stakeholders
• Supporting the data agenda with platform reporting and strategy.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain data integration processes to ensure data quality and accuracy in the data platform
• Deliver quality data engineering solutions of low-moderate complexity without clear requirements
• Transform data in various ways to support data analysts and business leaders
• Build and design a scalable and extensible data architecture
• Develop and maintain data processing platforms including frameworks
• Build infrastructure, data pipelines and the production of analytical models
• Actively researching the latest innovation in the industry and encouraging a continuous learning environment in the team and in the business.
• Design and implement data warehousing solutions to support reporting and analytics
• Identify and troubleshoot data issues and provide solutions
• Work closely with business teams to understand data needs and requirements
• Collaborate with other data engineers to ensure data consistency and integrity across systems
• Continuously monitor and optimise data performance and scalability
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and best practices in data engineering
• Ensure the data platform security standards are met, in conjunction with the Information Security team

Requirements

• Good understanding and track record of delivering complex data solutions using Agile methods including Scrum, SAFe etc.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of talking to people across IT and business, as well as to stakeholders at various levels of the company,
• Hands‑on approach, proactive and self‑starting
• Desire to deliver the best quality and meet the client’s needs
• Advanced experience in designing and creating data models
• Strong with SQL for data interrogation and transformation, a robust understanding of relational data and the ability to manipulate fact data along multiple dimensions.
• Experience with deploying solutions in Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), ideally GCP
• Overall business intelligence knowledge
• Experience using ETL tools to deliver data integration for batch and streaming use cases
• Willingness to self‑study and learn new skills to handle any upcoming tasks,
• Hands‑on experience of modern software CI/CD techniques to automate the build and deployment of data solutions
• Use of source code version control (e.g. Git, Bitbucket)
• Desirable to have experience in the exploitation of real‑time processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark or Apache Beam) and associated business use cases
• Desirable to have experience working with BigQuery, Java and/or Python
• Experience working with and adhering to Information Security standards, support procedures and incident response

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme
• 23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in service benefit
• Healthcare
• Free parking

At Rentokil Initial, our customers and colleagues represent diverse backgrounds and experiences. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, actively encouraging applications from individuals from all walks of life. Our belief is that everyone irrespective of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs, has the potential to thrive and contribute.

We embrace the differences that make each of our colleagues unique, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel a sense of belonging. To ensure that your journey with us is accessible if you have any individual requirements we invite you to communicate any specific needs or preferences you may have during any stage of the recruitment process. Our team is available to support you; feel free to reach out to [e-mail] if you need anything.

Be Yourself in Your Application! At Rentokil Initial, we value innovation, but we want to see the real you! While AI can help with structure and grammar, make sure your application shows your true passion and understanding of the role. A personal touch will help you stand out.