Data Engineer Remote
Job description
At Ocean, we’re on a mission to become the UK’s leading credit platform for people not served by the mainstream, helping them improve their financial wellbeing over their lifetime. This has been our mission for over 30 years, and it’s still the thing that drives us to do better and more for our customers.
We do this by helping our customers make informed decisions and access personal finance products.
If our mission sounds interesting, please keep reading!
About the job
We are seeking a talented Data Engineer to join our team, reporting directly to our Head of Data Platform and Services.
As a critical player in our Data Platform and Services team, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining, optimizing, and evolving our data infrastructure. This infrastructure, primarily built on Databricks, leverages Pyspark and Delta Lake to ensure our data solutions are scalable, robust, and efficient.
As our new Data Engineer, you'll also be responsible for designing and implementing data integrations with a suite of advertising platforms, enabling us to make data-driven decisions and provide meaningful insights to our teams.
What you’ll be doing for us
A day in the life of this role could look like…
- Participate in the design, development, and maintenance of our Databricks-based data infrastructure, utilizing Pyspark and Delta Lake to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate deployments and monitor system health, enhancing system reliability and efficiency.
- Design and implement data integration strategies with advertising platforms such as Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, and other relevant platforms, employing best practices for data extraction, transformation, and loading.
- Collaborate with internal teams such as paid media, CRM, and business intelligence to understand their data requirements and tailor solutions to meet their needs.
- Develop and maintain robust data pipelines and ELT processes, ensuring the integrity, reliability, and accuracy of data.
- Proactively troubleshoot data platform performance issues and contribute to the continuous improvement of system stability and performance.
- Stay current with the latest trends and advancements in data platform technologies, analytics, data security, and industry best practices.
- Work as part of a cross-functional Scrum team, actively participating in Scrum ceremonies and contributing to a collaborative, agile development environment.
- Support the development and enforcement of data governance policies, adhering to best practices for data privacy and security.
- Promote a data-driven culture within your role, advocating for the use of data and analytics in decision-making and process optimization.
Skills-wise, you’ll definitely:
- Proven experience with Apache Spark
- Proficiency in Programming languages like Python and Pyspark
- Hands on experience with Databricks
- SQL
- Live and breathe our values: Openness, Trust, Humility, Professionalism, Respect, and Passion
What we’ll do for you
- Pay you competitively and review your salary every year
- Welcome you into our awesome team (dare we say the best? We do, yes!)
- Bring the kind of vibe where we want you to share your ideas, even if it’s not “your area”
- Provide you with all the kit you need to work from home. Of course, you can also work from our Manchester or Cyprus offices, too.
- Help you plan for life after work with our pension scheme
- Take care of your health with eye test vouchers, Perkbox medical and wellness and our employee assistance programme
- Give you 25 days holiday (to start with), as well as local public holidays and a day off on your birthday
- Support you with training, mentoring and anything else you need to further your development and hit your career goals
- Invite you to regular online and in-person team socials, as well as the occasional team retreat somewhere exotic
- Help you help others with optional “community” days for volunteering
- Provide extra treats, freebies and discounts through Perkbox Perks
