Senior Data Engineer

Ageas Insurance Ltd; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working—Smart Working within

Health benefits and well-being support

Annual leave and pension

Well-being activities and events

Job summary

Ageas Insurance Ltd is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and support data products on a modern data platform. You will design scalable pipelines, collaborate with engineers, scientists and product teams, and ensure data quality across the analytics stack.

The role focuses on real-time and batch integrations, CI/CD practices, and leveraging Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. Strong collaboration and proactive problem-solving are essential, with exposure to GenAI beneficial.

Qualifications

• Passion for building scalable, resilient cloud data platforms.
• Strong experience with Databricks or Snowflake on AWS.
• Proven Python skills, including Spark and Airflow expertise.

Responsibilities

• Build and support data products within our modern data platform.
• Design and deliver solutions with engineers, scientists and product teams.
• Develop and optimise data pipelines across the analytics platform.
• Integrate data from varied sources with strong quality standards.
• Maintain orchestration, monitoring and performance of data components.
• Improve engineering processes across the wider data community.
• Promote high coding and data practice standards.
• Experiment with emerging data, ML and AI technologies.
• Partner with architects on data product designs.
• Work collaboratively in multi-functional agile squads.
• Support ML and GenAI infrastructure and workflows.

Skills

Cloud data platforms

Databricks or Snowflake on AWS

Python (Spark, Airflow)

SQL & data modelling

Batch & real-time integrations

CI/CD (Git, Jenkins)

Data ingestion & cleansing

Terraform IaC

Docker & Kubernetes

GenAI in production

Collaboration & proactivity

Job description

Main Responsibilities as the Senior Data Engineer:

• Build and support data products within our modern data platform


• Design and deliver solutions with engineers, scientists and product teams


• Develop and optimise data pipelines across the analytics platform


• Integrate data from varied sources with strong quality standards


• Maintain orchestration, monitoring and performance of data components


• Improve engineering processes across the wider data community


• Promote high coding and data practice standards


• Experiment with emerging data, ML and AI technologies


• Partner with architects on data product designs


• Work collaboratively in multi-functional agile squads


• Support ML and GenAI infrastructure and workflows

Skills and experience you need as the Senior Data Engineer:

• Passion for building scalable, resilient cloud data platforms


• Strong experience with Databricks or Snowflake on AWS


• Proven Python skills, including Spark and Airflow expertise


• Advanced SQL skills and end-to-end data modelling experience


• Experience building batch and real-time data integrations


• Hands-on CICD skills with Git, Jenkins or similar


• Ability to ingest, cleanse and structure large, diverse datasets


• Knowledge of Terraform or similar IaC tools


• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is beneficial


• Exposure to production Generative AI is an advantage


• Strong collaboration skills and a proactive attitude

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

• Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.


• Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Mindfulness.


• Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.


• Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.


• Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.


• Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.


• Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.


• Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.


• Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave