Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Luton/Hybrid

Job Purpose

With a big investment into Databricks, and with a large amount of interesting data, this is the chance for you to come and be part of an exciting transformation in the way we store, analyse and use data in a fast paced organisation.

You will join as a Senior Data Engineer providing technical leadership to the Data Engineering team. You will play a major role in adhering to big data best practices whilst building and maintaining reliable data pipelines and products across a range of exciting projects. Bringing a wealth of technical experience in big data platforms combined with excellent skills in development.

This role will support the business on the journey from a greenfield big data estate to a mature data lead organisation

What you’ll need to do the role

· Develop robust, scalable data pipelines to serve the easyJet analyst and data science community.

· Building orchestration for data pipelines using tools such as Airflow, Jenkins and GitHub actions.

· Highly competent hands-on experience with relevant Data Engineering technologies, such as Databricks, Spark, Spark API, Python, SQL Server, Scala

· Help the business harness the power of data within easyJet, supporting them with insight, analytics and data science.

· Work in a fast-paced agile scrum environment with a release within sprint mentality.

· Coach and mentor the team to improve development standards.

· Work with Technical Architects to define patterns and standards for designs.

· Work with Business Analysts to deliver against requirements and realise business benefits.

· Build a documentation library and data catalogue for all data pipelines/products.

Skills & Experience

· Technical Ability: has a high level of current, technical competence in relevant technologies, and be able to independently learn new technologies and techniques as our stack changes.

· Clear communication; can communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms with technical and non-technical audiences alike.

· Complex problem-solving ability; structured, organised, process-driven and outcome-oriented. Able to use historical experiences to help with future innovations.

· Significant experience designing and building data solutions on a cloud based, big data distributed system.

· Significant experience with Python, and experience with modern software development and release engineering practices (e.g. TDD, CI/CD).

· Significant experience with Apache Spark or any other distributed data programming frameworks (e.g. Flink, Arrow, MapR).

· Significant experience with SQL – comfortable writing efficient SQL.

· Experience using enterprise scheduling tools (e.g. Apache Airflow, Spring DataFlow, Control-M)

· Experience with Linux and containerisation

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