Senior Data Engineer (Event Streaming)

TES; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational technology company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer specializing in event streaming. This hybrid role, based in Sheffield or London, involves designing event-driven architectures and maintaining event streaming systems. Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and be proficient in AWS technologies, Python, and SQL. Competitive salary of £65,000 - £85,000 per annum, along with great benefits including 25 days annual leave and continuous professional development opportunities.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

5% pension after probation

State of the art city centre offices

Access to My Benefits World

Discounted city centre parking

Free eye care cover

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee assistance programme

Monthly company socials

Extensive Learning and Development menu

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a senior technical role.
• Knowledge of security & risk management frameworks.
• Expertise in real world applications for event streaming.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement event-driven architectures.
• Develop and maintain scalable event streaming systems.
• Monitor and optimise system performance.

Skills

Event driven architecture in AWS

Real time data processing (Kinesis, Kafka)

DevOps and CI/CD principles

Python

SQL (dbt)

Excellent communication skills

Collaboration skills

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Maths, or related fields

Tools

S3

EMR

EC2

Flink

Job description

Title: Senior Data Engineer (Event Streaming)

Department: Data & Insights

Location: Sheffield or London

Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office

Contact Type: Full time, permanent

Salary: £65,000 - £85,000 per annum

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview:

We are looking for a technically skilled and commercially minded Senior Data Engineer with significant event streaming experience. The successful candidate will work with the rest of our Data Engineering function to implement and leverage event analytics as a key part of our ecosystem strategy.

This role forms part of the Data Leadership Team and reports directly to the Head of Data & Insights. You will be responsible for the evolution of Tes's event streaming analytics capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement event-driven architectures that meet business requirements
• Develop, deploy, and maintain scalable and reliable event streaming systems (including stream analytics)
• Ensure security and compliance with relevant regulations, standards and best practice
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate events with other systems and applications
• Monitor and optimise system performance, including latency, throughput, and resource utilisation
• Troubleshoot issues and implement fixes to ensure high availability and reliability

What You Need to Succeed

Experience

• Successful candidates are likely to have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a senior technical role

Knowledge

Successful candidates will bring their expert knowledge of:

• Event driven architecture in the AWS data & analytics stack
• Real time / near time data processing and analytics (e.g. Kinesis, AWS MSF, Firehose, Kafka etc)
• DevOps and CI/CD principles
• Real world applications for event streaming and event streaming analytics
• Security & risk management frameworks

Skills

Likely to include:

• S3, EMR, EC2, Kinesis, Firehouse, Flink / MSF etc
• Python
• SQL (dbt)
• Excellent communication skills
• Collaboration, across the team and wider business

Qualifications

• Successful candidates are likely to have a degree in Comp. Sci., Maths, Statistics or other related fields

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• 5% pension after probation
• State of the art city centre offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management.

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai.

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

www.tes.com/tesglobal