Senior Data Platform Engineer

EasyJet Plc; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 20% bonus

25 days holiday

BAYE and SAYE share schemes

Life Insurance

Work Away Scheme

Flexible benefits package

Staff travel benefits

Job summary

easyJet is seeking a Senior Platform Data Engineer to lead our data engineering team. You will build robust, scalable data pipelines and work with data scientists to deploy models in a fast-paced airline environment.

The role requires hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, Python and cloud data tools, plus a passion for delivering data-driven value across the business. Hybrid working is offered with strong staff benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building data solutions on cloud-based distributed systems.
• Hands-on development with Python, SQL and modern release practices (CI/CD, TDD).
• Familiarity with Databricks, Spark and data quality tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust, scalable data pipelines to serve analysts and data scientists.
• Collaborate with data scientists and DevOps to deploy ML models and algorithms.
• Coach and mentor team members including contractors to raise standards.
• Partner with Business Analysts to deliver against requirements and realise benefits.
• Build a data catalogue and maintain documentation for code/products.
• Ensure code quality and governance in each release.

Skills

Clear communication

Data-driven mindset

Self-directed

Collaborative teamwork

Problem solving

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Python

SQL Server

Scala

Terraform

AWS

Job description

When it comes to innovation and achievement there are few organisations with a better track record. Join us and you’ll be able to play a big part in the success of our highly successful, fast-paced business that opens up Europe so that people can exercise their get-up-and-go. With almost 300 aircraft flying over 1,000 routes to more than 32 countries, we’re the UK’s largest airline, the fourth largest in Europe and the tenth largest in the world. Set to fly more than 90 million passengers this year, we employ over 10,000 people. Its big-scale stuff and we’re still growing.

Job Purpose

With a big investment into Databricks, and with a large amount of interesting data, this is the chance for you to come and be part of an exciting transformation in the way we store, analyse and use data in a fast paced organisation. You will join as a Senior Platform Data Engineer providing technical leadership to the Data Engineering team. You will work closely with our Data Scientists and business stakeholders to ensure value is delivered through our solutions.

Job Accountabilities

• Develop robust, scalable data pipelines to serve the easyJet analyst and data science community.
• Highly competent hands-on experience with relevant Data Engineering technologies, such as Databricks, Spark, Spark API, Python, SQL Server, Scala.
• Work with data scientists, machine learning engineers and DevOps engineers to develop, develop and deploy machine learning models and algorithms aimed at addressing specific business challenges and opportunities.
• Coach and mentor the team (including contractors) to improve development standards.
• Work with Business Analysts to deliver against requirements and realise business benefits.
• Build a documentation library and data catalogue for developed code/products.
• Oversight of project deliverables and code quality going into each release.

Key Skills Required

• Technical Ability: has a high level of current, technical competence in relevant technologies, and be able to independently learn new technologies and techniques as our stack changes.
• Clear communication; can communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms with technical and nontechnical audiences alike.
• Complex problem-solving ability; structured, organised, process-driven and outcome-oriented. Able to use historical experiences to help with future innovations.
• Passionate about data; enjoy being hands-on and learning about new technologies, particularly in the data field.
• Self-directed and independent; able to take general guidance and the overarching data strategy and identify practical steps to take.

Technical Skills Required

• Significant experience designing and building data solutions on a cloud based, big data distributed system.
• Hands-on software development experience with Python and experience with modern software development and release engineering practices (e.g. TDD, CI/CD), and software deployment automation with GitHub actions or Azure DevOps.
• Experience in testing automation of data transformation pipelines, using frameworks like Pytest or dbt Unit Test.
• Comfortable writing efficient SQL and debugging.
• Data warehouse operations and tunning experience in schema evolution, indexing, partitioning.
• Hands-on IaC development experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Understanding of ML development workflow and knowledge of when and how to use dedicated hardware.
• Significant experience with Apache Spark or any other distributed data programming frameworks (e.g. Flink, Hadoop, Beam)
• Familiarity with Databricks as a data and AI platform or the Lakehouse Architecture.
• Experience with data quality and/or and data lineage frameworks like Great Expectations, dbt data quality, OpenLineage or Marquez, and data drift detection and alerting.
• Understanding of Data Management principles (security and data privacy) and how they can be applied to Data Engineering processes/solutions (e.g. access management, data privacy, handling of sensitive data (e.g. GDPR)
• Experience in event-driven architecture, ingesting data in real time in a commercial production environment with Spark Streaming, Kafka, DLT or Beam.
• Understanding of the challenges faced in the design and development of a streaming data pipeline and the different options for processing unbounded data (pubsub, message queues, event streaming etc)
• Understanding of the most commonly used Data Science and Machine Learning models, libraries and frameworks.
• Knowledge of the development lifecycle of analytical solutions using visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, ThoughtSpot)
• Hands-on development experience in an airline, e-commerce or retail industry.
• Worked within the AWS cloud ecosystem.
• Experience of building a data transformation framework with dbt.

What you’ll get in return

• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• Life Insurance
• Work Away Scheme
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits

Location & Hours of Work

We operate a hybrid working policy of 40% of the month spent with colleagues.

We look forward to your application and the possibility of you flying high with our team!

Reasonable Adjustments

At easyJet, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse customers we serve across Europe. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds. If you require specific adjustments or support during the application or recruitment process, such as extra time for assessments or accessible interview locations, please contact us at [e-mail]. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure accessibility and accommodation