Senior Data Engineer
Location: Great Billing, Northampton, NN3 9EX.
Salary: £60,000 to £70,000 DOE.
Contract: Full time, permanent. 28 days per annum +3 bank holidays (Christmas, Boxing Day, NYD).
Billing Finance is a family-owned vehicle financing Company based on the outskirts of Northampton. We focus on customers with non-standard credit profiles that may not fit the automated underwriting processes of other lenders.
Senior Data Engineer - About the role
We’re hiring a Senior Data Engineer to*play a crucial role in rebuilding our data infrastructure from scratch. Our goal is to transition from legacy BI tools to a modern data platform that can handle current and future data needs efficiently. You'll select and implement the tooling that best fits our requirements, likely involving Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift. This is an opportunity to shape our data strategy from the ground up, and to enable better decision-making by delivering reliable, accessible data.
What You’ll Do
• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and data infrastructure, with a modern data warehouse architecture.
• Establish standards for data quality and integrity, ensuring reliability and accuracy in all data used by the company.
• Create and maintain documentation for data processes, schemas, and integrations.
• Facilitate the shift from isolated reporting systems to an integrated data platform that serves analytics, machine learning, and reporting use cases.
• Implement requirements from across the company. Translate between the technical and non-technical world, both at the idea and maintenance stages.
Requirements
Experience: Strong background in data engineering within cloud environments. Experience in regulated industries is helpful.
Technical Expertise: Proficient in data engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, ETL/ELT pipelines, and CI/CD tooling.
Data Modeling and Storage: Skilled in designing data models for analytical processing and working with relational and non-relational databases. At least one of: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent.
Automation and Monitoring: Experience with CI/CD for data applications, setting up data integrity checks, and implementing monitoring/alerting mechanisms. At least one of: Airflow, Luigi, DBT, or equivalent. At least one of: Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent.
Stakeholder Management: Able to communicate complex data strategies in clear, concise terms, especially to non-technical stakeholders. Experience training non-technical stakeholders to use your platforms would be a big plus.
Why Us?
Billing Finance is growing, and we need a skilled data engineer to build a data foundation we can rely on. This role is crucial to transforming how we use data across the company. We’re looking for someone who can spot what’s needed, take action, and own their work.
We help people with non-standard credit profiles access vehicle finance, and as a small, ambitious company, you’ll see the direct impact of your work across the full customer journey. We offer meaningful benefits, flexibility, and a team that values getting things done.
Benefits
• Competitive salary, with discretionary bonus scheme
• Hybrid working model
• EV and pension salary sacrifice schemes
• Private medical and income protection insurance
• Annual personal growth fund and paid volunteering days
If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role, click on “APPLY” today, forwarding an up-to-date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance