Senior Data Engineer

Hippo Digital Limited; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Data Engineer, where you'll lead the design and implementation of innovative data solutions. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to make data accessible and optimize solutions using evidence-based approaches. Your expertise in Snowflake, Python, and AWS will be key in delivering impactful results. Enjoy a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including a contributory pension scheme and flexible working options. Be part of a community that values diversity and inclusion, and make a meaningful impact in the digital services landscape.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday plus UK public holidays

Perkbox access for discounts

Critical illness cover

Life assurance

Volunteer days

Cycle-to-work scheme

Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme

Season ticket loans

Financial and general wellbeing sessions

Qualifications

• Proven track record in Snowflake, Python, dbt, AWS, and Terraform.
• Strong experience in log processing and data system design.

Responsibilities

• Lead, design, and implement data solutions to meet business requirements.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and promote best practices.

Skills

Snowflake

Python

dbt

AWS

Terraform

R

Bash

Java/.NET

PowerShell

SQL

NoSQL

Graph

Regular Expressions

JSON Parsing

Log Processing

Data Modelling

Data Normalisation

Job description

About The Role

Hippo is recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Hippo Herd. Our Senior Data Engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to build solutions that make data accessible to enable solutions to be optimised by using an evidence-based approach. Engaging with our clients you will design and implement data solutions ensuring solutions are integrated with internal systems and business processes.

Your role in a nutshell:

• Act as an SME within the Hippo squad to lead, design and implement data solutions that meet business requirements.
• Help architects realise data system design such as Meshes, Warehouses and Event based systems
• Implement data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems
• Re-engineer, develop and optimise code to ensure processes perform optimally
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders
• Work with the Hippo community to share best practice to ensure high standards
• Involved in the recruitment and on-boarding of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development
• Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd internally and externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences)

Skills and experience that you need

• Proven track record in Snowflake, Python, dbt, AWS and Terraform
• Proficiency in R, Bash, Java/.NET and/or PowerShell desirable
• Broad knowledge across cloud architectures, networking and distributed computing systems
• Experience of data system design such as Data Lakes, Data Meshes and Data Warehouses.
• Experience of a wide range of data sources, SQL, NoSQL and Graph.
• A proven track record of infrastructure delivery on any data platform (Snowflake, Elastic, Redshift, Data Bricks, Splunk, etc).
• Strong and demonstrable experience writing regular expressions and/or JSON parsing, etc.
• Strong experience in log processing (Cribl, Splunk, Elastic, Apache NiFi etc.)
• Expertise in the production of dashboard/insight delivery
• Be able to demonstrate a reasonable level of security awareness (An understanding of basic security best practices, OAuth, MFA, TLS, etc.)
• Experience in the processing of large datasets
• A firm understanding of data modelling and normalisation concepts
• Good estimation skills for times, latencies and costs.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams desirable
• Teamwork and presentation skills, experience of mentor led working practices

What makes us great

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
  • private health cover
  • private dental cover
  • additional company pension contributions
  • additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
  • wellbeing contribution
  • charity contributions
  • tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.

We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hi, we’re Hippo.

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.

We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.

Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.

Hippo locations

We are headquartered in Leeds and located across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide, so don't let location hold you back from applying. We welcome candidates from all over the UK who possess the flexibility to work from any of our locations. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k to help make your move a smooth one. It's worth noting that, given the dynamic nature of our business, you may be required to work on-site at client locations or from your own home.