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National Grid
Warwick
10 months ago
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Are you a Data Engineer with a desire to deliver data using cutting edge technology? 


You’ll provide solutions for data challenges that support the electrification of the economy and drive to Net Zero. And be part of a growing community of data professionals across the business with a wide variety of challenges to solve, including plenty of opportunity to learn, teach skills and foster an environment of development. It’s a hybrid role, the ideal candidate would be happy to come to one of our offices at least once weekly. Though remote working is possible.


You’ll join the Data Production Team in National Grid’s Asset Operations business supporting engineers, operational teams, planners, performance and regulatory teams by ensuring they have up-to-date, accessible, easy to understand and easy to use data so they can answer their questions. We support the building of Business Intelligence (BI) KPIs, reports and data science models that underpin the delivery of National Grid’s BIG work.


As an inquisitive and curious Data Engineer you’ll support the delivery National Grid Electricity Transmission’s award winning data strategy. Using a Data Fabric (Promethium) to build data products that show a real time view of our asset and work data domains. Understand what information is required, build efficient and maintainable data solutions to deliver that information and only introduce complexity when its needed. Always looking to continuously develop through self-improvement and happy to support colleagues with the development of data skills.

What are the requirements?

• Must be a fluent SQL developer.
• Strong stakeholder engagement/management skills – understand customer requirements/expectations
Ideally has worked with a similar stack to:
• CI/CD (ideally using dataops.live/gitlab but the skills are transferrable)
• Data engineering using DBT, python and SQL
• Git for version control

Pay and Benefits

• Starting salary £46,415 to £58,760 pa + Benefits package + Training and Development. 
• 26 days leave plus 8 statutory days. 
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days. 
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. Totalling 18%.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – relevant to your role. 
• Access to benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few. 
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days). 
• Access to apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.


Apply now for consideration.


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