Senior Data Engineer

Burns Sheehan; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Income protection

Salary sacrifice schemes

Extra holiday with tenure

Job summary

Burns Sheehan Ltd is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to scale the data platform underpinning decision-making across a fast-growing consumer tech business. You’ll own end-to-end data projects, collaborating with Product, Analytics and Engineering in a fully remote UK setup.

You will build scalable pipelines in Python and SQL, leverage Snowflake, dbt, Dagster or Airflow, and AWS, and contribute to data quality and monitoring. Startup/scale-up experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong senior-level data engineering with solid software engineering habits.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable pipelines in Python, SQL, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt and AWS.
• Own projects end to end, from ingestion through to analytics.
• Build a proper staging and testing environment, and improve monitoring, alerting and data quality.
• Contribute to CDC and lower-latency data work.
• Code reviews, pairing and supporting more junior engineers.

Skills

Senior data engineering

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Data quality

Startup/scale-up background

Ambiguity tolerance

CDC/streaming knowledge

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Dagster

Airflow

AWS

Job description

Senior Data Engineer | Remote UK

Our client is a fast-growing consumer tech company, and they're hiring a Senior Data Engineer to help scale the data platform behind decision-making across the business. It's a high-ownership role in a small team, reporting into the Lead Data Engineer and working closely with Product, Analytics and Engineering.

What you'll be doing

• Building and maintaining scalable pipelines in Python, SQL, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt and AWS
• Owning projects end to end, from ingestion through to analytics
• Building a proper staging and testing environment, and improving monitoring, alerting and data quality
• Contributing to CDC and lower-latency data work
• Code reviews, pairing and supporting more junior engineers

What they're looking for

• Strong senior-level data engineering with solid software engineering habits
• Confident Python and SQL in production
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Dagster or Airflow, and AWS
• Pragmatic data modelling and a real care for data quality
• Startup or scale-up background, comfortable with ambiguity
• Iceberg, CDC or streaming is a bonus

What's on offer

• £85,000 - £100,000, fully remote within the UK
• Private health insurance, income protection and salary sacrifice schemes
• Extra holiday with tenure

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.