Senior Engineer, Data Engineering in Sheffield

Location: Remote with visits to our Sheffield HQ a minimum of 6 times a year.

Twinkl is on an exciting journey to redefine how we serve our global teaching community through data. We're building a world-class data engineering function to power the next generation of our data platform, with modern tools and practices at our core.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be a key contributor in building and maintaining the robust data systems that power our analytics and operational needs. You’ll work across our data platform from batch processing to event streams, ensuring our solutions are scalable, maintainable, and deliver real value to our users.

Data Engineering Team

You'll have the opportunity to work with modern data engineering tools and practices, while learning from experienced engineers. We offer the freedom to work in whatever way suits you best - whether that's remote, in our Sheffield office, or a mix of both. You're encouraged to contribute to architectural decisions, take ownership of key platform components, and develop your skills across the full data engineering spectrum. With our focus on impact over hours worked, you'll be part of a team that values pragmatic solutions and continuous learning, working on projects that make a real difference to educators worldwide.

We embrace modern data engineering practices and tools. As our Senior Data Engineer, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that move data efficiently across the organization.
• Data Modeling: Optimize data models from ingestion through to presentation layers to ensure high performance.
• Contribute to and uphold high standards for code quality, testing practices, and CI/CD workflows.
• Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Data Integrity: Implement data quality frameworks and documentation to ensure our data is reliable and discoverable.
• Turn complex data requirements into clean, maintainable code.
• Identify opportunities to utilize AI and automation to improve the development lifecycle and increase platform stability.
• Peer-review code and mentor mid-level/junior data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Minimum 3 years experience working in Data Engineering/Analytics Engineering or within data teams.

Minimum 2 years of experience with a modern data platform such as Databricks or Snowflake.

Knowledge of different data architecture patterns and how and when to implement them.

Knowledge of data modeling and warehouse design.

Minimum 3 years experience with SQL and Python.

Experience implementing data quality and testing approaches in a modern data platform.

Experience implementing testing and deployment patterns for modern data pipelines.

Care about building reliable systems that make other people's jobs easier.

Get satisfaction from cleaning up messy data problems.

Flexible working with fully remote and hybrid working options - early bird or night owl? No problem - our flexible working policy helps you work the hours that suit you best.

~33 days annual leave per year, pro rata. You decide which public holidays to recognise. After 2 years of employment, your annual leave entitlement will accrue year on year up to 38 days annual leave.

~ An additional day of annual leave, a Me Day, to take time for yourself.

~ Westfield Health (including Health Club discount and Westfield Rewards discount and cashback).

~ Learning and Development opportunities, with opportunities for internal mobility across various departments / areas of the business.

~4 x annual salary death in service life assurance.

~ Enhanced pension after long service.

~ Enhanced parental and adoption leave after long service.

~ Seasonal events for all UK employees so you can catch up with your new colleagues in person.

~ We like to keep things simple and clear, after an initial chat with our TA Partner the process is:

• Initial 30 minute chat with one of our Head of Data Engineering so you can get to know more about the role.
• You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the role and Twinkl and get to know why the data team is a really exciting place to work.
• 60 minute behaviours interview - where we'll do some competency based questions and you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the role and Twinkl and get to know why the data team is a really exciting place to work.

At Twinkl, we encourage diversity, and our doors are open to everyone.