About the Role
The Data Engineering team is responsible for the business intelligence platform at JustGiving. The BI platform is used for internal/external facing reporting/analytics and data integration with third parties. We're embarking on a new project to modernize our BI platform to improve the data capabilities of the business.The plan is to evolve our existing Kimball data warehouse running on SQL Server to modern architecture.
We're looking for a principal level data engineer to support the day-to-day running of the existing platform but also look towards driving the strategy and architecture of a modern data warehouse solution.
Architecture
Define and own the modern data platform and integrations into downstream systems
Deliver a system that supports both real time and analytical queries
Advise on implementation strategy using (AWS or Azure) big data technologies
Model datasets for both ad-hoc and supported enterprise level reporting
Data integration processes
Define ETL/ELT architecture, framework and design patterns
Build high quality, efficient, flexible, scalable data pipelines and reporting solutions
Automate ingestion of events-based messages from microservices into the data platform
Drive technical excellence in the team
Contribute to ongoing process and technical improvements
Mentor and develop other members of the team – juniors and BI engineers
Automated testing and deployment
Continuous integration and deployment for all assets
Define and implement testing strategy
Delivery of data project work
Interpret requirements from the business and own projects from inception to delivery
Excellent judgement on the selection of methods/techniques to solve the problem at hand. With a focus on manageability and maintainability.
Technical Skills
Design, creation and management of large data models
Expert in data warehousing and modern architectures
Cloud based architecture and deployment
Infrastructure as code - Terraform
Advanced SQL
Microsoft BI Stack - SSIS in particular
Python or C#
Javascript or Typescript is advantageous
AWS data technologies (EMR Spark, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, Data Pipeline, step functions, batch, Redshift) or Azure equivalent. We would like to evaluate both for future offerings.
CI/CD: experience in a CI/CD tool such as CircleCI, GoCD
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