Senior Data Engineer

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Senior Data Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Systems & Analytics team. You'll play a key role in unlocking the potential of data, driving innovation, and delivering insights that impact the business.

The Opportunity

As part of the Finance Data Squad, you'll collaborate across Finance and Retail to build a new team of data experts. This team will transform how data is used to manage financial performance and drive business outcomes. The Squad will initially be managed within Retail and transfer to Finance in 2025, bringing best-in-class data practices with it.

You'll build and maintain scalable data products, drive a new approach to data in a cross-functional environment, and leverage multi-purpose data assets for insights that fuel business growth. Your work will cover key areas such as billing, debt management, ledgering, and actionable financial insights.

Pay, benefits and culture

In addition to a starting salary from £54,400 (dependent on experience), potential to earn 5% bonus, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts, and employee pricing.

Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we'll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. Most of our team is based in our Exeter office therefore, you'll be required to travel to this office occasionally.

At EDF, everyone's welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

We'll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you'll be doing

• Build and maintain scalable, value-add data products for Finance, delivering insights and improving business outcomes.
• Work with structured and unstructured data, ensuring the stability of ETL processes and the integrity of our data systems.
• Embed Data Governance & Quality practices to future-proof our data infrastructure.
• Collaborate with analytical functions and business areas to align data requirements and develop innovative, data-driven solutions.
• Keep up with trends in data engineering and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.

Who you are

• Expert in coding languages like SQL and Python.
• Skilled in managing and maintaining data infrastructure (e.g., S3, EC2, Snowflake, Tableau Server).
• Proven experience in building large-scale data processing systems and creating data-driven products that deliver commercial value.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with an eye for detail and a commitment to data quality and governance.
• Excellent communicator who can collaborate across teams and explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in agile working methodologies and a passion for continuous learning and improvement.

Our team will be committed to continuous development and all roles will provide pathways for continuous learning and development. We would be particularly interested to hear from candidates with skills in these areas, but don't expect you to have full knowledge of all of them.

Closing date for applications: 05/11/2024

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