You will join as a Data Engineer joining a team of committed data specialists. As our data strategy begins to take shape, we aim to become the most data driven airline in the world. To achieve this goal, we want to use our data to improve all our business processes and that means allowing our teams to experiment and innovate as they deem fit. Within data engineering, this translates to building efficient and resilient data pipelines and applications to ensure that our internal teams are enabled to do their best work.
What You’ll Need To Do The Role
Develop robust data pipelines/products to serve the easyJet analyst and data science communities.
Work in a fast paced agile scrum environment with a “release within sprint mentality”.
Build best practice and constantly improve processes and core code bases.
Work in partnership with Senior Data Engineers to conform to/define patterns and standards.
Provide quality assurance to Data Engineering team’s work through processes such as code reviews and TDD.
Work with a mixed team of onshore and offshore resource to work with consistent standards and frameworks.
Provide L3 support for data pipelines/products within the Data Engineering estate.
Skills & Experience
Familiarity with Unix based environment and comfortable with shell-scripting
Hands-on experience with database engines (e.g. SQL Server)
Practical experience building data applications in Python, Java/Scala, and SQL.
Knowledge of orchestrating data pipelines with Apache Airflow or similar tools.
Comfortable writing tests for Python and experience with modern software development and release engineering practices (e.g. TDD, CI/CD).
Experience working with data source types e.g. structured/ semi-structured, unstructured.
Understanding of Data Warehousing/Dimensional Modelling concepts, along with familiarity with application database/OLTP structures.
Experience of performance tuning within a Big Data environment e.g. partitioning and bucketing at a practical level.
Understanding of security management on AWS cloud platform including IAM roles and policies
Knowledge of CICD platforms such as Github Actions, Jenkins or similar tools and practical experience in automated testing and deployment of data pipelines.
Desirable Skills
Real-time data pipelines: Spark streaming or Apache Kafka
Understanding of how analytical tools can seamlessly consume data from big data environments for reporting
What You’ll Get In Return
Competitive base salary
Up to 20% bonus
25 days holiday
BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
7% pension
Life Insurance
Work Away Scheme
Flexible benefits package
Excellent staff travel benefits
About EasyJet
At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.
It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.
Apply
Complete your application on our careers site.
We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates.
Business Area
Information Technology (IT)
Primary Location
United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport
Organisation
Information Technology (IT)
Schedule
Full-time
Unposting Date
Ongoing
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Project Management, Analyst, and Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting, Information Services, and Airlines and Aviation
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