Data Scientist Junior jobs in United Kingdom

Role

The Analytics Engineering team works across all data domains to support our internal partners in building high-quality, ready-to-use datasets. As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in crafting our data landscape, empowering teams across the organization with reliable, high-quality data. You'll contribute to a vibrant data culture, encouraging self-service capabilities and driving impactful insights.

Responsibilities

• Build and champion central data models used in Insights, ML, and Search pipelines.
• Design and deliver robust data pipelines that provide high-quality data for partner teams such as insights, finance, ML, and operations.
• Build data models using our data stack, including Databricks, AWS, dbt, Airflow, and Looker.
• Lead technical initiatives and be responsible for their success.
• Improve engineering efficiency by developing internal tooling, CI/CD practices, and alerts/logging.
• Mentor junior engineers and support data consumers in building their own models.
• Cultivate a collaborative data culture that empowers self-serve data and model creation.

Requirements

• Proven success in end-to-end project delivery, from partnering with business teams to implementation and maintenance.
• Experience aligning analytics engineering initiatives with broader vision and business objectives.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including documentation, planning, and delivery management.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience in Airflow, dbt, and Looker.
• Knowledge of data engineering methodologies, warehousing, and data design, including performance and cost optimization, observability, and monitoring.
• Experience working with and integrating different parts of the data stack.
• Experience with BI tools like Looker to enable data scientists and business consumers.
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions or Jenkins.
• Experience using Terraform.

Additional information

• Health + Mental Wellbeing: PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa, subsidized counselling, Cycle to Work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders.
• Work/Life Balance: 25 days annual leave, impact hours for volunteering, paid sabbatical after 5 years.
• Flexible Working: Hybrid model with options for Flex, Office Based, and Remote (role dependent). Offices are dog-friendly. Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks/year in UK tax treaty countries.
• Family Life: 18 weeks paid parental leave, IVF leave, shared parental leave, emergency parent/carer leave.
• Learn + Grow: budgets for conferences and subscriptions, mentorship programs.
• Your Future: Life Insurance (3x salary), pension matching up to 6%.
• Depop Extras: Free UK shipping on sales, milestone rewards.