At a Glance
- Tasks: Build scalable data services and maintain robust data pipelines for analytics.
- Company: Join Storio Group, where we craft and share life's stories through personalised photo products.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team that values unique contributions and fosters a positive work environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by helping customers preserve their memories with innovative technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in data engineering, SQL, and cloud solutions; STEM degree preferred.
The predicted salary is between 72000 - 88000 £ per year.
We are Storio group, a place where life’s stories are made, crafted and shared. Through our brands including Photobox and Albelli, we bring our customers’ stories to life through a range of high-quality personalised photo products, like photo books, wall decor, calendars & gifts.
We are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our London-based data team and help us build a platform that accelerates a decentralised-by-design data adoption model within the business. We care about trustable, usable data and we want you to bring your technical expertise to make that happen. You’re a software engineer at heart, you thrive in the data domain and care deeply about customer outcome-focused engineering excellence.
Day to day, you will:
- Build observable, scalable and resilient data services that ingest data from source systems into consuming applications such as our data warehouse to meet the needs of analytics engineers and stakeholders.
- Make significant contributions to solution designs, provide technical guidance to other team members and champion iterative approaches to software delivery.
About Our Data & ML Team:
Data & AI powers our growth and innovation. We have a growing data and AI team in the UK and Netherlands. We function as the backbone for a variety of data-hungry consumers and platforms across the business within Marketing, Finance, Operations and Product teams. Our AI photo services are at the heart of our consumer experience and we’re expanding our footprint towards decentralised ML adoption within the business.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Building and maintaining data pipelines for ingesting and serving datasets to various downstream applications and data warehouses.
- Designing and building evolvable, maintainable and reusable data models (both logical and physical) on strong engineering foundations to support business needs.
- Championing and ensuring adoption of software engineering and data engineering best practices to build a well-engineered and well-governed data platform aligned with customer needs.
- Owning technical solution design for complex features within your team, leading timely and successful implementation through your own and others’ work.
- Enabling continuous improvement efforts by identifying opportunities to enhance business value, improve cost efficiency, and increase the speed and quality of delivery.
- Mentoring engineers within and outside your team by sharing best practices across the software development lifecycle, writing high-quality code, and contributing to a positive, feedback-driven team culture.
Required skills and experience:
- Extensive experience in data engineering, including designing and maintaining robust data pipelines.
- Proficient in SQL and relational databases; familiarity with modern data warehousing solutions such as Snowflake is preferred.
- Proficient in programming, capable of developing and maintaining tested, production-ready data solutions, preferably in Python.
- Familiarity with major cloud providers and their data services, concrete experience in building production-grade data solutions on AWS is a plus.
- Experience in data modeling and warehouse architecture design.
- Experience with data orchestration and workflow management tools such as Airflow.
- Solid understanding of data ingestion, transformation, and ELT/ETL practices.
- Expertise on data transformation frameworks such as DBT.
- A degree in a STEM field, e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics.
- Familiarity with data integration tools such as Fivetran.
Imagine being part of a team that doesn't just create products, but helps people preserve and share life's most precious stories. We bring our customers' stories to life through beautifully personalised photo products – think photo books, stunning wall art, calendars, and heartfelt gifts. Our cutting-edge technology empowers them to create unique keepsakes, whether for themselves or as the perfect, thoughtful present.
It's a community. We believe every individual brings something unique, leaving a lasting impact on our work, our culture, and our success. Meaningful Work: You'll be part of a team that creates something truly special, helping people connect with their memories and loved ones.
We embrace diversity and build genuine relationships based on mutual understanding and respect. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process due to a disability or special need, please contact our HR team. Applicants must possess the legal right to work in the country where the position is located, without requiring sponsorship.
Senior Engineer, Data Engineering in London employer: Storio group
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