Data Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced developer of large-scale data solutions. You will join a team delivering a transformative cloud hosted data platform for a key Version 1 customer.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record as a senior/self-starting data engineer implementing data ingestion and transformation pipelines for large scale organisations. We are seeking someone with deep technical skills in a variety of technologies,specifically Snowflake, DBT and Databricks, to play an important role in developing and delivering early proofs of concept and production implementation.

You will ideally haveexperience in building solutions using a variety of open source tools & Microsoft Azure services, and a proven track record in delivering high quality work to tight deadlines.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Designing and developing robust ingestion and transformation pipelines using Snowpark, dbt, SQL, and orchestration tools (e.g., ADF/Airflow).
• Implement Zero‑Copy Cloning, Time Travel, Materialized Views, and Tasks/Streams for reliable data flows
• Embed data quality checks and lineage.
• Tune Virtual Warehouses, caching, micro‑partitioning, and query plans.
• Apply FinOps practices: right‑size compute, implement auto‑suspend/auto‑resume, usage dashboards, and resource monitors.
• Configure roles, RBAC, masking policies, row‑level access, and TAG‑based governance.
• Operationalize Data Contracts and collaborate with platform/security teams on compliance.
• Developing scalable and re‑usable frameworks for ingestion and transformation of large data sets
• Working with other members of the project team to support delivery of additional project components (Reporting tools, API interfaces, Search)
• Working within an Agile delivery / DevOps methodology to deliver proof of concept and production implementation in iterative sprints.

• Direct experience of building data piplines using Snowpark, dbt, SQL, and orchestration tools (e.g., ADF/Airflow).
• SnowPro Core, SnowPro Advanced Architect/Data Engineer, relevant cloud certifications (Azure/AWS).
• Hands on experience designing and delivering data solutions using the Azure and AWS cloud platform.
• Experience building data warehouse solutions using ETL / ELT tools like Databricks, Teradata.
• Comprehensive understanding of data management best practices including demonstrated experience with data profiling, sourcing, and cleansing routines utilizing typical data quality functions involving standardization, transformation, rationalization, linking and matching.

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectivelybenefitfrom a share of our company's profits.
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financialadviceand an Employee Discount scheme.
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
• Educationalassistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.