Data Engineer

Data Engineer Location: Sheffield or London for 3 days per week Full time, permanent Tes is an international provider of digital solutions, which is passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions. Role overview: This is an exciting role in our transformation as it will help provide valuable insights, improve decision-making leading us to deliver value where schools and teachers need it most. We are looking for a junior to mid-level Data Engineer to join our team and help us build and maintain our data infrastructure. Our Data Engineering team sits within the Data & Insights team. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and implement data pipelines and data processing systems. Work alongside Data Analysts and Analytics Engineers to build and maintain data models and infrastructure. Delivering a platform that meets their and business stakeholder’s needs. Take ownership of deploying your code and optimise data pipelines for performance and scalability. Ensure the quality and integrity of data. Happy to contribute and share knowledge amongst their own team and Tes Engineering via knowledge sharing meetings. What will you need to succeed? Essential Skills: Strong skills in Python and SQL Demonstrable hands-on experience in AWS cloud Data ingestions both batch and streaming data and data transformations (Airflow, Glue, Lambda, Snowflake Data Loader, FiveTran, Spark, Hive etc.). Apply agile thinking to your work. Delivering in iterations that incrementally build on what went before. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. Good written and verbal skills, able to translate concepts into easily understood diagrams and visuals for both technical and non-technical people alike. Desirable Skills: AWS cloud products (Lambda functions, Redshift, S3, AmazonMQ, Kinesis, EMR, RDS (Postgres)). Apache Airflow for orchestration. DBT for data transformations. Machine Learning for product insights and recommendations. Experience with microservices using technologies like Docker for local development. Apply engineering best practices to your work, e.g. unit tests and test-driven development. What do you get in return? 25 days annual leave rising to 30 5% pension after probation Hybrid working, 3 days in the office Health care cash plan State of the art city centre offices Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World Discounted city centre parking Free eye care cover Life Assurance Cycle to Work Scheme EAP (Employee assistance programme) Monthly Tes Socials Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu Who are Tes? Tes powers schools and enables great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education. For more than 100 years, we’ve supported schools and been a champion of great teaching. As education is changing, so are we. We’ve grown to provide a wide range of products to help schools and students flourish. We work together with teachers and schools to build trusted education solutions that help them to be the best they can be. From safeguarding and compliance, to staff and pupil management, and professional development and SEND provision, our innovative and flexible services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children. Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organisation striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes. Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.www.tes.com/tesglobalOther details Pay Type Salary Min Hiring Rate £50,000.00 Max Hiring Rate £65,000.00