Senior Data Engineer
About Sedex
More than 85,000 businesses across the world have made Sedex their trusted partner in creating a more socially and environmentally sustainable supply chain.
From our platform’s unrivalled data insights to our team’s expert guidance, Sedex makes it easy for companies to manage, assess and report on sustainability performance.
Our Vision is to be a leader in making global supply chains more socially and environmentally sustainable.
Our Mission is to supply data-driven insight through the most accessible tools and services. We engage with companies and our community to continuously improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes.
The role
We are looking for an experienced data engineer to join one of our multi-functional data product delivery teams. You will primarily work on data ingestion and processing pipelines in Snowflake and SQL; but ideally could contribute to backend data services as well, with support from our software engineers. You will be a product-minded engineer, working alongside the product manager and data analysts to understand internal customer needs and build data systems to meet them. You will work with the other engineers in your team and across the business to design and build maintainable, secure and reliable systems iteratively. You will contribute to a culture of Dev/Data Ops and Continuous Delivery, where 10+ deploys to production per day are done in a safe, tested manner and the team owns the operability, performance and other non-functional requirements of the data systems it builds.
Key responsibilities
In the first 3 months you will:
- Familiarise yourself with the systems your team works on
- Understand the overall architectural landscape in which your systems live
- Gain an in-depth understanding of the production environment setup, CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
- Familiarise with and begin monitoring the operational data and metrics from the production environment
- Become productive and begin delivering at your true pace
- Build relationships cross-team and cross-function
- Make a positive impact to your team, establishing yourself as open and approachable, with a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw upon
- Understand and settle into the team processes and cycles, and start forming ideas on how they can be improved
- Develop a solid grounding in your understanding of the business and how it operates
Ongoing responsibilities:
- The design and implementation of innovative solutions and architectures through high-quality test-driven code
- The intelligent break-down of deliverables in a way that facilitates the constant and iterative delivery of value to the end customer
- To pass the benefit of your knowledge and experience on to the team via code review, your contributions in planning activities, retrospectives, knowledge sharing sessions, etc
- Mentoring and coaching more junior / less experienced members of the team, role-modelling an open, positive, progressive, and results-orientated approach
- Identifying and articulating technical risk, tech-debt, and non-functional requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
You should have:
- 5 years of commercial experience working in data engineering and analytics teams using agile methodologies
- Highly proficient in data technologies such as Python, SQL, data lakes/warehouses and BI tools
- Previously driven automated testing at all levels, both in code and data, using TDD and data quality testing
- Proven experience in defining and optimising data system non-functional requirements, such as performance, maintainability and cost
- Experience collaborating with data producers to ensure consistent, reliable and high-quality data, including co-creating data contracts
- Well-versed in modern architectural patterns for data ingestion, ETL/ELT, governance, quality, security, self-service and DataOps
- Able to design relational and non-relational databases and data models, including for data warehouses such as Snowflake
- Good knowledge of message-based architectures using technologies like Apache Kafka
- Experience in writing infrastructure as code (IAC) using tools such as Terraform
- A keen focus on creating customer value
- A strong sense of accountability and ownership
- Advocate for the continuous evolution of the team and its capabilities
- Excellent communication skills, including writing technical documentation
- A desire to work collaboratively with other engineers (pair programming, mobbing)
Bonus points for
- Background in software engineering e.g. backend services
- Expertise in Snowflake
Our culture
At Sedex, we are passionate about helping businesses become truly sustainable and ethical across their operations and supply chains. We believe that all people have the right to a safe workplace, where they are treated with respect and paid fair wages, free of harassment and discrimination. We strive to achieve these beliefs through inclusive behaviours that embody our values of being collaborative, responsible, transparent, quality driven and committed to service excellence.
We want everyone to feel they can be themselves and thrive at work - in every country, in everything we do, every day. We are focused on providing a culture characterised by inclusive everyday behaviours built on a foundation of respect and appreciation for diversity in all its forms.
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- Department
- Technology, Engineering and Infrastructure
- Locations
- UK
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Senior Data Engineer
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