Senior Data Engineer

Overview

Location: UK (Remote)
Department: Engineering Hours: Full-time

About YLD:
Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy;

we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.

About The Role

As a Data Engineer in this role, you will be responsible for building core infrastructure software (pipelines, APIs, data modelling) as part of our client s data platform team. Your work will include instrumenting systems for performance, and enhancement throughout. You will work on ensuring these data offerings are to various internal & external stakeholders using secure authentication patterns.

Your role will include choosing and implementing the appropriate technologies for scaling data access patterns, batch processing, and data streaming for soft real-time consumption while considering the unique domain knowledge of the client s business. As a senior collaborator on the team, you will coach & mentor other engineers to support the growth of their technical expertise.

• Proven experience writing highly maintainable, performant Python and JavaScript code
• Experience building modern data pipelines using dbt, Kafka, Spark, AWS Kinesis, AWS Lambda, and Apache Airflow (or similar)
• Understanding of Data Modelling patterns
• Deep knowledge of complex SQL, with emphasis on Common Table Expressions, window functions, and their performance
• Experience with end-to-end monitoring & alerting experience (Cloud Watch, Datadog, etc.)

• Problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs
• Comfortable working in a dynamic production environment and taking care of client expectations effectively
• Distinct customer focus and quality mindset
• Experience working closely with engineering leadership and architects to deliver high-quality solutions
• Experience maintaining a high degree of ownership and transparency in deliverables
• An exemplar of YLD s brand and safe-guarder of our reputation
• Exceptional communication skills, able to communicate complex ideas simply

• Company Private Health care (currently provided by BUPA)
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• Company s Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• £2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• £300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Mental Health support: access to Spill app
• Meditation/Sleep support:
  Headspace or Calm app subscription
• Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. Likewise, we also offer a remote-first working environment, meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.