Data Engineer
Ronald James Group
We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to take technical ownership of an established data platform, ensuring data is reliably ingested, transformed and made available for reporting, analytics and business decision-making.
You’ll work closely with Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, Data Analysts and wider business stakeholders, with plenty of autonomy to improve and evolve the platform.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Own and evolve the data platform, including pipelines, transformations and warehouse architecture.
- Design, build and maintain reliable ETL/ELT pipelines and data models.
- Improve data quality, monitoring, testing, performance and reliability.
- Build trusted datasets for reporting, analytics and decision-making.
- Work closely with Data Analysts and Engineering teams.
- Identify technical debt and opportunities to improve the platform.
- Act as a technical point of contact for Data Engineering.
- Document key data flows, models and technical decisions.
- Provide technical guidance and support across the wider data function.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer.
- Strong SQL and Python skills.
- Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines.
- Good understanding of data modelling and cloud data warehouses.
- Experience with modern ETL/ELT and data transformation tools.
- Strong understanding of Git, testing and deployment practices.
- Experience troubleshooting data quality and pipeline issues.
- Comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Snowflake
- SQLMesh, dbt or similar
- dlt, Fivetran, Airbyte or similar
- Terraform, Pulumi or other Infrastructure as Code
- BigQuery and GA4
- Omni, Looker or similar BI platforms
- Product, subscription, ecommerce or marketing data experience
The Opportunity
This is a great opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer who wants genuine ownership of a data platform and the opportunity to influence its technical direction as it continues to grow.
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