About Valor
Valor Real Estate Partners LLP (“Valor”) is a pan-European industrial platform, headquartered in London, focused on urban/infill industrial and logistics properties in the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
Founded in 2016, Valor is a full-service development management and investment business with offices in London and Paris and c. €3.5bn AUM. Valor Real Estate Partners, the real estate industrial and logistics specialist, is seeking a Data Engineer to sit within the Investment team.
About Research
Our Research & Strategy team works closely with our private equity firm partners, operating as an extension of their deal teams to craft investment thesis, uncover trends and themes; evaluate investment opportunities across EMEA. We are seeking a data engineer to create and manage the technological part of data infrastructure, who is forward-thinking, analytical, passionate about investment and real estate, and thrive in a team oriented, collaborative environment.
Primary Responsibility:
- Data mining and assembling large, complex sets of data from external and internal sources, including managing data feeds through APIs and scripting
- Identifying, designing and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
- Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies, participate in data migration projects
- Building analytical tools (i.e leveraging Tableau) to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and fund capital deployment
- Ensure data quality and accuracy by implementing data quality checks, and data governance processes
Secondary Responsibility:
- Synthesizing information and translating it into key insights that support investment decision making
- Assisting Research in maintaining strategic models and updating presentations, as well as supporting Investment teams with ad-hoc deal-related requests and presentations.
- Actively contributing to various projects and activities within the research team as a committed team player.
Requirements and skills
- Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering / mathematical / analytical background
- 2 Years experience as a data engineer or in a similar role
- Proficiency in programming and data engineering tools, including SQL, Python/R
- Experience with Geospatial tools such as QGIS
- Experience with BI tools such as Tableau
- Structured and Critical Thinking & Analytical: breaks down complex problems and solves them in creative ways is a must
- Proficient in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Familiarity with data warehousing concepts, understanding of Snowflake, AWS etc.
- Understanding of business requirements and spotting opportunities to innovate. Willingness to step out of comfort zone and learn modern data engineering practices and trends.
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Self-starter with ability to multi-task and efficiently manage time and workload
Application Process
Please send your CV to (applications will be assessed on a rolling basis). Candidates that meet the requirements will be invited to complete various assessments from home before being invited to interview.
Based: London
Salary: Competitive
Start: ASAP
Website: www.valorrep.com
