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Senior DataOps Engineer

Coventry Building Society
Coventry
2 months ago
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About the role

As the world of data engineering becomes increasingly pivotal in driving modern digital ecosystems, The Coventry is looking to welcome aSenior DataOps Engineerwho can inspire and coach our existing Data Engineering teams.

This is more than just a technical role, were looking to build a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement. Working alongside domain-oriented, multi-disciplinary data product teams to design, develop, and test high-quality data solutions that serve as the backbone of our decision-making and digital services.

What You’ll Be Doing

Drive automation and CI/CD practices across data pipelines and infrastructure Build robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure that supports our data platform strategy Lead and mentor data engineers, fostering a high-performance, collaborative environment Play a central role in designing and developing a new cloud-based Data Ecosystem Work closely with stakeholders to analyse requirements, design test strategies, and ensure data quality and integrity through comprehensive testing Collaborate in an agile environment with product managers, analysts, and developers to deliver data products that create tangible business value

If you enjoy solving problems, automation, improving systems with IaC, and working with great people — we’d love to hear from you.

Our benefits include:

28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme Annual discretionary bonus scheme Personal pension with matched contributions Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society .

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications

About you

To be successful in this role it’s essential you have:

You have experience building and automating data pipelines in finance. You focus on making data systems run smoothly and automatically using a DataOps or DevOps approach. You can demonstrate how to automate and manage data systems so they run smoothly and can grow easily. You have experience with tools likeAWS (S3, Glue, Redshift, SageMaker)or other cloud platforms. You’re also familiar withDocker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Vaultfor managing secrets. You can code inSQL, Python, Spark, or Scalato work with data. You have experience with databases used in Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, and Lakehouse setups. You know how to work with both structured and unstructured data. You have experience in testing and testing standards You can lead and coach individuals to provide ongoing oversight over the development of data products.

Desirable experience will be:

Experience of working in an Agile Team; preferably Safe. Experience in specific tooling Qlik Replicate / Qlik Compose / DataBricks / Informatica / SAS An understanding of data modelling methodology (Kimball, Data Vault, Lakehouse) Understanding of Data Science, AI and Machine Learning ways of working

About us

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role. 

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

Location

Coventry-Binley Business Park

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