Staff Data Engineer in Cardiff

Job Description

Want to drive a top brand\’s Data team with 1m+ users?

If you love Python, implementing robust data pipelines & driving best Data practices, you may be interested in a Staff Data Engineer role I have with a highly successful Tech driven business, where you\’d drive the Data function playing a key role optimising the acquisition & retention of users.

Your work will serve millions of users a month, process thousands of requests a day, and enable hundreds of integrations with partners.

Salary to £100k + 10% Bonus, pension to 7.5%, Hybrid working (2 days in the Cardiff office), 30 days per year \\\”work from anywhere\\\”, 27 days holiday (raising to 32), L&D budget, Health insurance, excellent maternity/paternity/adoption leave.

What you\’ll like:

• You\’d scale & improve a top brand\’s Data function, optimising retention of millions of users & having a real life impact
• You\’d have autonomy over Tech to pick the latest, best languages/frameworks for the job
• You\’ll have broad career progression opportunities across Group, which includes several high profile household name

What you\’ll bring:

• Strong Python & TDD skills
• Expertise in modern data architecture (dimensional modelling, data mesh, data lake) & best practices (agile, CI/CD, IaC, observability).
• Experience with Cloud and big data technologies (e.g. Spark/Databricks/Delta Lake/BigQuery).
• Familiarity with eventing technologies (e.g. Event Hubs/Kafka) and file formats such as Parquet / Delta / Iceberg.

Want to learn more? Get in touch for an informal chat.