Senior Data Engineer

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Watford, United kingdom

£ 85,000 /year

Full Time

29-04-2025

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Job Specifications

Job Title:
Senior Data Engineer
Reports To:
Data and Reporting Manager
Salary:
£85,000 DOE

Your Role

Work closely with the CTO & the Data and Reporting Manager to define and implement the short & the long-term strategies around Data & MI reports.
Communicate effectively with internal customers and third parties.
Analyse both large and complex reporting requirements.
Collaborate effectively with Product Owners, Developers, Designers, DevOps Engineers, and the wider business.
Hands-on development of MI & BI reports for the various business units.
Work with four other Data Engineers / Reporting Developers, and the Data and Reporting Manager.
Support, mentor and help the more junior members of the team.
Test and cross validate reports for accuracy and integrity.
Perform regular, technical reviews of your team’s work.
Analyse and recommend enhancements to the MI reports, processes, and standards.
Assist with resolution of support issues.

Requirements

4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or on a similar role.
Extensive experience with SQL, Amazon Redshift & ideally MySQL.
Extensive experience with visualisation tools, ideally with Amazon QuickSight.
Experience with AWS Glue and the ability to write Python scripts, e.g. for ETL.
Excellent data modelling skills.
Experience developing ETL & ELT processes from multiple data sources & types.
Experience in dashboard design and development.
Experience working in a collaborative Agile environment.
Mentoring skills for the less experienced members of the team.
Practical experience with JIRA & Confluence.
Excellent communication skills.
Self-motivated, proactive, independent thinker, with a “can do” mentality.
Team player.
Inquisitive with a desire to learn and use new technologies.
Knowledge of SAP Business Objects would be helpful but not necessary – currently in use but in the process of migrating to Redshift & QuickSight.

About the Company

At Mentmore we understand that hiring exceptional people is important for our clients but that it is only one part of their job. We aim to make that process as enjoyable, efficient and effective as possible. We provide high quality candidates for both permanent and contract IT positions and are specialists within our five Core Practice areas: *Information Security *Change & Project Management *Infrastructure & Service Management *Architecture *Executive IT Leadership Our knowledge extends across a variety of sectors inclu... Know more