Senior Data Engineer

Trainline; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Trainline is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their innovative Data Team in London. In this role, you will build data pipelines and apply advanced technologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful insights. Enjoy a collaborative environment with significant autonomy, fantastic benefits like private healthcare, and excellent opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Dental insurance

Work from abroad policy

2-for-1 share purchase plans

EV Scheme

Extra festive time off

Family-friendly benefits

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Python and SQL.
• Experience developing data pipelines using dbt, Spark, and Airflow.
• Work with AWS, S3, SQS, and related tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and model data pipelines for impactful dashboards.
• Deploy applications to the Cloud (AWS).
• Create efficient data marts and warehouses.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Modelling

dbt

Spark

Airflow

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Docker

AWS

Job description

About us:

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.

Introducing Data Engineering at Trainline

At the heart of our Data Team, Data Engineers play a pivotal role by creating pipelines and tables that power impactful dashboards, enable self-service via SQL, and support innovative machine learning models and real-time data products.

As a Data Engineer, you will be involved in engineering pipelines that will drive key decisions and give data science powerful datasets to enable and drive new business insights.

Data Engineers work alongside Machine learning engineers, BI Developers and Data Scientists in cross-functional teams with key impacts and visions. Using your skills with SQL, Python, data modelling and Spark to ingest and transform high volume complex raw event data into user-friendly high impact tables.

As a department we strive to give our Data Engineers have high levels of autonomy and freedom to innovate and continually refine their technical and soft skills with clear progression plans and training opportunities with Data Camp!

As a Senior Data Engineer at Trainline, you will...

• Use cutting-edge Data technology to deliver world-class Data applications.

• Contribute to the Technical / Architecture direction of the team.

• Be building Data Pipelines

• Be Data Modelling

• Be deploying applications to the Cloud (AWS)

We'd love to hear from you if you...

• Have strong experience with Python & SQL

• Have experience developing data pipelines using dbt, Spark and Airflow

• Have experience Data modelling (building optimised and efficient data marts and warehouses in the cloud)

• Work with Infrastructure as code (Terraform) and containerising applications (Docker)

• Work with AWS, S3, SQS, Iceberg, Parquet, Glue and EMR for our Data Lake Experience developing CI/CD pipelines

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:

• Think Big - We're building the future of rail

• ️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey

• Travel Together - We're one team

• ️ Do Good - We make a positive impact

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!