Senior Data Engineer in Manchester

Hippo is recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Hippo Herd. Our Senior Data Engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to build solutions that make data accessible to enable solutions to be optimised by using an evidence-based approach. Engaging with our clients you will design and implement data solutions ensuring solutions are integrated with internal systems and business processes. Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems beyond traditional boundaries. We leverage deep data insights and continuous innovation to deliver awesome platforms that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data and digital services. Our Senior Data Engineers play a key role in this.

Your role in a nutshell:

• Act as an SME within the Hippo squad to lead, design and implement data solutions that meet business requirements.
• Help architects realise data system design such as Meshes, Warehouses and Event based systems.
• Implement data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems.
• Re-engineer, develop and optimise code to ensure processes perform optimally.
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders.
• Work with the Hippo community to share best practice to ensure high standards.
• Involved in the recruitment and on-boarding of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development.
• Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd internally and externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences).

Skills and experience that you need:

• Expertise in Python.
• Proven track record in Snowflake, dbt, AWS and Terraform.
• Proficiency in R, Bash, Java/.NET and/or PowerShell desirable.
• Broad knowledge across cloud architectures, networking and distributed computing systems.
• Experience of data system design such as Data Lakes, Data Meshes and Data Warehouses.
• Experience of a wide range of data sources, SQL, NoSQL and Graph.
• A proven track record of infrastructure delivery on any data platform (Snowflake, Elastic, Redshift, Data Bricks, Splunk, etc).
• Strong and demonstrable experience writing regular expressions and/or JSON parsing, etc.
• Strong experience in log processing (Cribl, Splunk, Elastic, Apache NiFi etc.).
• Expertise in the production of dashboard/insight delivery.
• Be able to demonstrate a reasonable level of security awareness (An understanding of basic security best practices, OAuth, MFA, TLS, etc.).
• Experience in the processing of large datasets.
• A firm understanding of data modelling and normalisation concepts.
• Good estimation skills for times, latencies and costs.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams desirable.
• Teamwork and presentation skills, experience of mentor led working practices.

What makes us great:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%).
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays.
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts.
• Critical illness cover.
• Life assurance and death in service cover.
• Volunteer days.
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists.
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme.
• Season ticket loans.
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions.
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of private health cover, private dental cover, additional company pension contributions, additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days), wellbeing contribution, charity contributions, tree planting.

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo:

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hippo locations:

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices which will be your contracted office location. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.