Data Engineer (Mid/Senior/Lead)

BJSS; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

About Us

We're an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we've been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world's leading organisations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day.

In the last 30 years we won several awards, including a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for our Enterprise Agile delivery approach.

Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.

We want to continue to grow our team with people just like you!

About the Role

We're building out our Data Engineering practice across multiple levels. Depending on your experience and aspirations, you could be contributing as a key team member, leading a dedicated team, or taking on principal engineer responsibilities across multiple teams and larger strategic projects. While the contractual job title will be Data Engineer, the role and responsibilities will be tailored to your experience level and our organisational needs.

We are DataOps advocates and use software engineering best practices to build scalable, re-usable data solutions to help clients use their data to gain insights, drive decisions, and deliver business value. Clients engage BJSS to take on their complex challenges, looking to us to help deliver results against their business-critical needs which means we get to work with a wide range of tools and technologies and there are always new things to learn.

BJSS Data Engineers are specialist software engineers that build, optimise, and maintain data applications, systems and services. This role combines the discipline of software engineering with the knowledge and experience of building data solutions in order to deliver business value.

As a BJSS Data Engineer, you'll help our clients deploy data pipelines and processes in a production-safe manner, using the latest technologies and with a DataOps culture.

You can expect to get involved in a variety of projects in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), while also gaining opportunities to learn about and use data services such as Databricks, Data Factory, Synapse, Kafka, Redshift, Glue, Athena, BigQuery, S3, Cloud Data Fusion etc.

About You

• You're an engineer at heart and enjoy the challenge of building reliable, efficient data applications systems, services, and platforms.
• You have a good understanding of coding best practices and design patterns and experience with code and data versioning, dependency management, code quality and optimisation, error handling, logging, monitoring, validation, and alerting.
• You have experience in writing complex queries against relational and non-relational data stores.
• Strong proficiency in Python programming, with a solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles, best practices, and a commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Experience using Python data processing libraries for large-scale data manipulation, cleaning, and analysis, with a preference for PySpark over Pandas.
• Familiarity with one or more data platform technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, and MS Fabric. We have a preference for Databricks, but welcome applications from candidates with other experiences.
• Excellent SQL skills, including the ability to write complex queries, optimise query performance, and design efficient database schemas.

Some of the Perks

• Flexible benefits allowance - you choose how to spend your allowance (additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more).
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - we partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support, and others.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working - Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices. But we offer plenty of flexibility and you can split your time between the office, client site and WFH.
• Discounts - we have preferred rates from dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands.
• An industry-leading referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals.
• Flexible holiday buy/sell option.
• Electric vehicle scheme.
• Training opportunities and incentives - we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles, including unlimited access to O'Reilly.
• Giving back - the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from diverse backgrounds into tech.
• You will become part of a squad with people from different areas within the business who will help you grow at BJSS.
• We have a busy social calendar that you can choose to join- quarterly town halls/squad nights out/weekends away with families included/office get-togethers.
• GymFlex gym membership programme.

Please note: any applicants must be able to gain valid SC clearance.