Senior Data Engineer

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Bristol is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to enhance their Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform. This role focuses on delivering high-quality data capabilities, building reusable data pipelines, and using various programming and cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will have experience in languages like Python, Java, and SQL, and possess strong knowledge of databases and data frameworks. This position offers a competitive salary, benefits including a generous pension scheme, and a hybrid working pattern.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes, including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

Well-being initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial/industry setting with programming languages like Python, Java, Scala, and SQL.
• Proficiency with both relational (SQL Server, Oracle) and non-relational databases.
• Good knowledge of containers such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality data capability and reusable data pipelines.
• Build scalable real-time data applications using industry-leading toolsets.
• Adopt best engineering practices like Test-Driven Development and code reviews.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Go

SQL

Spark

Flink

Beam

Hadoop

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Azure

AWS

Job description

• Personalised Experiences & Communications Platform
• SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000
• LOCATION(S): Bristol
• HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week
• WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, currently at least two days (40%) at Bristol office

About this opportunity

A great opportunity has arisen for a Senior Data Engineer to work within the Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform to join product engineering cross‑functional teams.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will deliver the highest quality data capability, drawing upon your engineering expertise, while being open‑mind to the opportunities the cloud provides. You will build reusable data pipelines at scale, work with structured and unstructured data, perform feature engineering for machine learning, and curate data to provide real‑time contextualised insights to power our customers' journeys.

Using industry‑leading toolsets and evaluating exciting new technologies to design and build scalable real‑time data applications, you will span the full data lifecycle and experience using a mix of modern and traditional data platforms (Hadoop, Kafka, GCP, Azure, Teradata, SQL Server) to build capabilities with horizon‑expanding exposure to a host of wider technologies.

You will help adopt best engineering practices such as Test‑Driven Development, code reviews, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery for data pipelines, and mentor other engineers to deliver high‑quality, data‑led solutions for our bank's customers.

Qualifications

• Coding: Experience in commercial/industry setting with Python, Java, Scala, Go, and SQL.
• Databases & frameworks: Operational data stores, data warehouses, big data technologies, and data lakes.
• Experience with relational and non‑relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle), relational and dimensional data structures.
• Distributed frameworks: Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop.
• Containerisation: Good knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Cloud: Experience with GCP, Azure, or AWS, including cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning.
• Additional skills (nice to have): GCP Professional Data Engineer certification, Apache Kafka certification (CCDAK), proficiency across the data lifecycle.

About working for us

We focus on ensuring inclusivity 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, and we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We are disability confident. If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment processes, please let us know.

Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• Well‑being initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive?

Apply today and find out more.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).