Senior Data Engineer
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Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Reports To: Director of Asset Management (UK)
BSL offer a range of services in the renewable energy industry including: asset management, financial, legal, monitoring and technical support. Our portfolio under management has increased rapidly in recent years, with our expertise now recognised in both the European and global markets.
The renewable energy market has grown rapidly in the last 10 years and forecast to grow even faster in the next decade. BSL are committed to a programme of digitalisation and continuous improvement in order to provide the best services to clients.
We are looking for a talented and experienced senior data engineer to be at the centre of our internal data team. You will work closely with our senior technical project manager, reporting and analysis manager, the asset management team and the other data engineer. BSL is looking for a highly experienced Data Engineer to maintain and improve an existing in-house software and support with data systems and processes.
Required Qualifications, Skills and experience:
1. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
2. 10+ years' experience of developing using Python and industry standard Python frameworks
3. Experience in developing user interfaces
4. Experience in developing APIs
5. ETL pipelines using concurrency
6. Highly experienced with cloud environments especially AWS
7. Experience in accessibility and security compliance
Additional technologies experience is required in:
• AWS (including technologies such as ECS, Route 53, S3, EC2, RDS, Cognito, Cloudwatch, EFS, Aurora, Athena, RedShift) or similar services on other cloud platforms
• Flask, Django or other similar web framework for Python
• Linux
• SQLAlchemy or other similar Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) library for python
• Pulumi, Terraform or similar infrastructure as code tools
• Front end technologies including HTML and CSS
• PostgreSQL or other relational database engine
Purpose of the Senior Data Engineer
As a Senior Data Engineer in Bluefield Services, you will be responsible for maintenance and development of Bluefield's in-house data systems and products in line with the roadmap and business priorities empowering and collaborating with, and being a key member of, the data team.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Quickly gaining in-depth understanding of the system through conversations with the data team and reading code and documentation
2. Maintenance and improvement of in-house data systems.
3. AWS infrastructure used for in-house data systems.
4. Support and guidance to the team with advanced experience in data engineering technologies and best practices
5. Create & Maintain Databases & other forms of data storage that the system depends on
6. Working with the key stakeholders to further improve and develop the software platform
7. Create & Manage data integrity and flow from multiple data sources into a data warehouse
8. Working as lead developer to plan and execute the development strategy
9. Looking for other areas of integration and automation
10. Supporting other teams understanding and engaging with the system and developing UIs for these interactions
11. Looking for other areas to automate information flows in the wider business and helping to deliver these projects
12. Maintain data security and confidentiality by using information within the parameters of the job role, any applicable SLAs, the company data policies and / or privacy notices and the statutory guidelines set out within the GDPR and any associated UK legislation, in particular data that is generated by CCTV or that may be classified as personal data.
13. Comply with all required fire, health and safety requirements for the environment in which you are working, including making yourself aware of the current applicable policies and risk assessments and acting accordingly, and attending any required training.
14. Any other reasonable task as requested by a Manager, Partner or Director of the business.
Interactions within the Bluefield Group
1. Communicate information as required within the team.
2. Attend team meetings, company meetings, handover meetings and appraisals as required.
Job Location
Bristol Central. Minimum 3 days in office. Hybrid working available.
Hours of Work
37 ½ hours per week, Monday to Friday 9:00 am until 5:30 pm. Flexible working is available.
Our Behaviours:
Our behaviours are important to us at Bluefield. They define our culture and act as a guide for us all in understanding how we approach our interactions with each other. Success isn't only measured by what we achieve, it is also measured by how we achieve our goals and deliver solutions.
Act Courageously
We push ourselves out of our comfort zone.
We know pushing our boundaries can be challenging, but we don't let our fears hold us back.
We choose to act, even when we feel uncomfortable in doing so.
We speak up, share our ideas and stand up for what we believe in.
As a team we are open to the perspective of others.
Collaborate
We work together to achieve our shared purpose.
Every member of our team offers something different and unique, yet we are united in our passion and purpose.
We support each other, learn from each other's strengths and support each other's development.
We seek out diverse views and perspectives and respect the voices of others, even when we do not share the same opinions.
Empower
We have permission to act. What we do takes confidence - we believe in ourselves and our ability to make decisions.
We take the lead and with the support of our colleagues, we decide for ourselves the best way to do things.
If we make mistakes we learn from them and grow through feedback that we seek from others. We build trust in each other.
Act Courageously * Collaborate * Empower: To Deliver Solutions
Bluefield Services Limited reserve the right to vary or amend this description as required to meet the changing needs of the business. Any such changes will be reasonable and will be communicated to employees.
Inclusive Statement
We aim to have a workforce that is representative of all sections of our society, where you can act true to yourself and where you feel a sense of belonging in Bluefield.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in our workforce.
These include women, those from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.