Private Equity Jr Data Engineer

Valor Real Estate Partners LLP
Greater London
1 year ago
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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

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