Data Engineer
N Brown Group
- Manchester
- £60,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Technical Development & Data Modelling: Collaborate within a dynamic engineering team to develop, maintain, and enhance our Analytics Platform. Specialise in designing and developing robust data models using SQL and data build tool (dbt).
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with stakeholders to capture and translate complex data model requirements into scalable technical solutions. Focus on understanding the specific needs of our retail and finance business to provide tailored data structures and analysis capabilities.
- Process Optimization: Apply your SQL expertise to optimise data flows and processing, enhancing the performance and reliability of data movement. Utilize your knowledge of data build tool (dbt) to streamline and automate data transformation processes.
- CICD & Quality Assurance: Champion the adoption of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CICD) practices to ensure minimal deployment risks and high data quality.
- Experience with Cloud products (Cloud SQL, BigQuery, RedShift, Snowflake) or similar technologies.
- Proficiency in open-source data-stack tools such as DBT, Airflow, Airbyte, Kafka, etc.
- Familiarity with data visualization tools like PowerBI, Tableau, or Looker.
- Knowledge of Teradata, Mainframe, and/or Google Analytics is beneficial.
- Understanding of data governance, data management, analytics, science, and visualization workflows.
- Awareness of the modern cloud data stack, headless BI, analytics engineering, data meshes, and lake-houses.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively articulate technical concepts to business stakeholders and understand their needs.
- Experience in implementing large-scale data projects, with a focus on the data itself.
- Deep interest in data engineering, modelling data and its impact on enhancing experiences and informing business decisions.
- Proficiency in working with Cloud Platforms; GCP experience is advantageous but not mandatory.
- Eagerness to experiment and innovate, maintaining focus on outcomes.
- Understanding of Agile principles, practices, and tools like Jira and Confluence.
- Hybrid working
- 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 days
- Annual bonus scheme
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
- Access to Apricity, a self-funding IVF benefit at a reduced rate
- Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
- Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
- A range of financial wellbeing support
- Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
- Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
- Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
- Paid volunteer time - all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice