Big Data Engineer Newbury, England
Job description
Location: Newbury + Hybrid *
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri
Hybrid
Who We Are
We’re a global technology communications company that empowers people and businesses to stay connected and thrive in a digital world. With a focus on innovation, sustainability and earning customer loyalty, we leverage cutting-edge technology to offer products and services that enhance communication and improve lives.
At Vodafone UK, diversity isn’t just a buzzword, it is core to who we are as a company. We’re proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work and are committed to driving inclusion for all; creating a workplace that is fully representative of the communities and customers we serve.
Join Vodafone UK IT, which is at the core of our digital future, analysing and operating all our internal and customer-facing systems, with the aim of delivering the best customer experience. None of it would be possible without our innovative teams, creating a connected future with technologies like Cloud, AI and big data.
What you’ll do
The Data domain is essential to the success of Vodafone UK as this team is accountable for the architecture and design of our Big Data platforms, Data warehousing and Reporting practice.
By applying machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, the Big Data team are at the forefront of building a data driven company to better meet customers’ needs and offer them truly personalised services and products and deliver them a great customer experience.
- You will work closely with the team and our stakeholders to build and deliver our Cloud based vision for a next generation Big Data analytics platform.
- You will work with Data Engineers, Data Scientists, DataOps Engineers and DevOps Engineers to maintain data availability and quality of data and help drive the company strategy and marketing campaigns out to our customers.
- You will produce robust, high-quality data ingest pipelines in alignment with our best practices. This will include all relevant documentation, making use of practices such as defensive programming, ensuring quality issues are raised and addressed.
- You will need to focus on data quality, data security and deliver the systems that process huge volumes of data.
- You will work as part of an agile team. You are responsible for the completion of your tickets within the sprint, you will aid others that are blocked to achieve sprint goals.
Who you are
- You will be able to assess data feeds against Data Quality Dimensions using SQL and/or Python
- You will be developing scalable data pipelines in Spark/Python (PySpark), Hive, BigQuery.
- You will have experience in large and complex code bases (e.g. Github, GitLab, Gitflow, EnvFlow, Fork/Pull Model) and cloud services via IDE (PyCharm, Visual Studio Code) or CLI (bash, zsh)
- You will have knowledge of Python Notebooks, such as Jupyter, Zeppelin, or Google Datalab to analyse, prototype, and visualise data and quality output.
- You will have knowledge of cloud-based Big Data services and platforms, such as AWS and/or GCP.
- You will be happy to work as part of an Agile team (Scrum, Kanban) producing frequent and timely deliverables.
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
What we offer
We believe that taking care of our employees is the key to their success. That is why we offer an excellent remuneration and bonus package with up to 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We take pride in our commitment to supporting you at every stage of your career by providing top of the range learning and development tools, market leading parental leave policies and an innovative Reconnect programme for people who have taken a career break.
Together we can
Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/applying-to-vodafone/) for guidance.
