Lead Data Engineer
Job Description
Job title: Lead Data Engineer
Company: i6 Group, Ltd.
Job description: LEAD DATA ENGINEER – £80k – £90k – UK / REMOTE
Our mission is big, we’re transforming the aviation industry and we need great people to make that happen.
Remuneration
Salary: £80k -£90k
Benefits:
- Private health insurance
- Cash plan
- 25 days holiday (with ability to buy/sell an additional 5 days p.a.) & your Birthday off
- Enhanced Pension Contribution – 5%
- Apple MacBook Setup
- Remote First Working, with the requirement to attend quarterly events at our offices in either Farnborough, Manchester or our Birmingham hubs, so you could be based pretty much anywhere in the UK.
Opportunity
The Lead Data Engineer plays an instrumental role in architecting, designing, and overseeing the data platform that underpins the i6 biosphere. You will be a beacon of technical excellence, responsible for mentoring, sharing knowledge, providing technical direction, and guiding your peers and junior engineers through complex issues. £80k to £90k – UK / Remote
Role
The Lead Data Engineer will serve as a pivotal member of our Data Engineering team, responsible for designing, constructing, integrating, and maintaining a robust data platform spanning multiple cloud platforms such as:
- Google Cloud Platforms (GCP)
- Azure Cloud Platforms
You will be essential in establishing, optimising, and adhering to data management and transformation standards.
Therefore you should have a clear understanding of data workflows and orchestration will be imperative, as the role encompasses design, deployment, and optimisation of data pipelines and big data solutions.
Key responsibilities:
- Aligning with industry best practices, manages, designs, develops, and provisions:
- Data Warehousing Solutions
- Data Orchestration Solutions
- Data Transformation Solutions
- Complex ETL Pipelines & Solutions
- Proactively manages the availability and performance of the data platform
- Establishes, steers, and upholds the benchmarks for technical delivery within the team
- Consistent adherence to best practices around version control, testing, and deployment
- Owns, implements, and oversees data security measures
- Compliance with data privacy laws and regulations across multiple states and regions
- Leverages cloud services and technologies within a multi-cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle) for optimal data management and processing
- Owns, develops, and implements strategies for disaster recovery and business continuity for the data platform
- Responsible for guiding their engineering team: mentors, motivates, and inspires by sharing expertise and insights, encouraging a culture of continuous learning and development
- Contributes to and guides the Data Platform roadmap and strategy
- Works in an Agile team
- Continuously improve processes, ensuring efficient and effective data operations
- Acts as a bridge between the data engineering team and business units
Person
The Lead Data Engineer should have a deep understanding and demonstrable experience of:
- Software and Data Architecture Patterns
- Data Warehousing, Data Modelling, Data Transformation and Data Quality
- NoSQL Data Orchestration & Transformation (MongoDB)
- Data Warehousing Solutions (BigQuery)
- Distributed Data Warehousing, Query Optimisation, Data Modelling, Role / User Management, BigQuery Monitoring & Alerting
- Data Reporting Tools, Apache Superset, Tableau, BI
- Apache Airflow, DAG Management, Airflow Monitoring & Alerting
- Cloud APIs and SDKs, Unit Testing Strategies
- Python Data Science Development, working with files and data at scale
- Containerisation Strategies for local development.
- Data Transformation Solutions such as DBT.
If you also have the following experience then you may be the person we need:
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Strong diagnostic/troubleshooting skills for complex enterprise systems
- Able to quickly learn and work with new languages and technologies
- Ability to build strong, collaborative working relationships with peers, managers and both internal and external customers
- Open attitude to sharing ideas, knowledge, and information to both technical and non-technical people
- Can work in a demanding, fast-paced environment
- UK based and happy to be remote, occasionally meeting up with team members in one of our office hubs in either Farnborough, Manchester or Birmingham.
Company
Bring Your Skills and Passion to Life at i6:
i6 Group is the fastest-growing aviation fuel management technology provider – enabling smarter and greener operations for airlines, fuel service providers, and suppliers. We have developed the broadest, fully functioning cloud-based solution, next-generation management and mobile platform for aviation fuelling and business aviation and are expanding our operations from the UK across Europe, Asia, Canada, USA and Australia. We work with the world’s largest airlines including British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, JetBlue, Delta, Air Canada and Lufthansa and all the major fuel suppliers at many major airports.
The Six i’s That Make i6:
- Improve – we’re open to new ideas and deliver an amazing customer experience
- Influence – we build strong relationships and make great decisions
- Impress – we work hard and smart to deliver great work on time
- Innovation – we share ideas, experiment and find new ways to solve challenges
- Intelligence – we continue to develop our skills, knowledge, and behaviours
- Integrity – we respect and embrace differences in people
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Expected salary: £80000 – 90000 per year
Location: United Kingdom
