Lead Data Engineer (Birmingham)

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Who We Are:

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014. We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritized by a regional team close to them. This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years. Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• As a Lead Data Engineer, you’ll help our clients deploy and maintain data pipelines in a production-safe manner, using the latest technologies and with a DataOps culture.
• You’ll work in a fast moving, agile environment, within multi-disciplinary teams, delivering modern data platforms into large organisations.

Your responsibilities:

• Develop pipelines that bring data to life for decision making, either delivering insight or for more sophisticated data science applications.
• Experience in being hands on with data, applying the practicalities of quality, flow, and organisation of information, and an understanding of data modelling approaches.
• Be comfortable working in a fast moving, agile environment, within multi-disciplinary teams, delivering modern data platforms into large organisations.
• Previous practical experience of using both SQL and task orchestration software (eg. dbt, Airflow/Prefect/Dagster or equivalent) to develop production-grade pipelines that bring data to life.
• Strong Snowflake experience is preferred, and Databricks experience would be a bonus.
• Practical hands-on experience of at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and experience of associated technologies (for example with AWS: DynamoDB, Redshift, Kinesis Pipelines, Glue, Lambda, QuickSight, etc).
• Hands-on dataops experience (eg. CI/CD, version control, IaC, etc.).
• Have experience adopting a Data Product mindset, ensuring datasets are discoverable, addressable, trustworthy, and self-describing for downstream consumers.
• Ability to bridge the gap between technical engineering and business value, translating stakeholder needs into robust data product specifications.

Why join AND Digital?

• We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.
• By joining AND, we’ll provide opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.
• A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
• A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
• An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don’t have to study in your own free time.
• Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.
• A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

Benefits:

25 days holiday allowance + flexible