Data Platform Engineer

RS Group plc
1 year ago
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Data Platform Engineer (Snowflake)
Permanent
Location: Virtual working (UK)

RS Group employ around 10,000 people, service over 1.2 million b2b customers and ship circa 80,000 parcels a day via an extensive logistics network across the globe. We handle a LOT of data, and invest heavily in providing our people with the best analysis and insight, and data management systems.

Our Data Engineering Team are looking for a Snowflake Platform Engineer to join the Group Data and Analytics Team who will administer and support all aspects of Snowflake and Enterprise data platform environment. 


What you can expect to be doing:

You will join as a member of the Data Engineering team within the group’s Core Data team, to administer and support the design, delivery and maintenance of our Enterprise Data platform that serves multiple business units to deliver data. You will be contributing towards the design and implementation of numerous complex data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems. Contribute towards building, managing, and maintaining the data & analytics platforms, tools & data supply services. You will partner with other Data Engineers, under the guidance of the Lead Data Engineer, to create complex data processing pipelines to solve our most ambitious challenges. You will collaborate with Data Scientists to develop scalable implementations of their models Responsible for seamlessly incorporating data quality into your day-to-day work as well as into the delivery process Work very closely and collaboratively with the wider technology team to enable data & machine learning to be seamlessly integrated into business & technology services. Work alongside data profilers, DQ analysts & data architects to gather engineering requirements


What we are looking for from you:

Essential experience:

Very strong SQL skills. Experience in data warehousing, semantic layer definitions and scaled data consumption patterns. Working understanding of Kimball modelling techniques Extensive experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance  Hands-on experience on using technologies such as Snowflake, Apache Airflow, relational and NoSQL data stores at scale. Hands-on project experience with scripting/programming languages and supporting tools such as Python or Java Hands on experience with data integration products like DBT, Fivetran, Talend, Informatica, etc. Experience in cloud data engineering, preferably on AWS. Aptitude to learn new technologies and analytical methodologies relating to business intelligence and data analysis Understanding of Customer and Personally Sensitive Data

Desirable experience:

Experience of DataOps (CI/CD, Git, Terraform etc) Experience delivering data pipelines using DBT Experience of the usage of APIs and consuming data for analysis purposes. Experience in release management processes from a product/ application and technical perspective Experience in using BI reporting tools like Power BI, Tableau, etc Knowledge and experienced in Agile approach. Experience of Data Analysis and Reporting 

We are RS Group.

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. 

Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.


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