Lead Data Platform Engineer -6 Month Secondment

Lead Data Platform Engineer -6 Month Secondment Experian•Nottingham, United Kingdom

Job Description

Experian Credit Services & Verifications are looking for a Lead Data Platform Engineer to join our Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform team for a 6 month fixed-term contract.

Reporting into our Engineering Director, you will join an established agile team, with a passion and lead a technical team that supports innovation, learning and collaboration. Ensure that the team follows the highest technical standards. Support Agile methods to deliver high value outcomes.

This is a Hybrid, Nottingham based role (40% in the office).

Main responsibilities:

• Lead an outstanding Agile technical team
• Build data pipelines and data lake
• Deliver quality software
• Collaborate with the risk, security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, PCI DSS) and industry standards related to data privacy and security
• Understand where there are overlapping technical requirements in your team and other teams and help build out technology roadmaps
• Codebase ownership
• Technical Application ownership

Qualifications

• Strong experience with DevOps & IaC tooling - Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins , Harness
• Strong experience of developing on Apache Spark/Hadoop
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services including AWS Glue, S3, Step
• Strong experience building data pipelines and data lake
• Experience of the full development lifecycle/application Lifecycle Management Tools - BitBucket & Jira
• Significant experience of programming using Scala or Python. Configuration as code principles and API integration
• Write clean, scalable and re-usable code that implements SOLID principles, common design patterns where applicable and adheres to published coding standards
• Experience analyse, investigate and compare large data sets when required
• Functions, Lambdas, EventBridge, SQS and Lake formation
• Experience with automated testing methodologies

Additional Information

Benefits package includes:

• Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan
• Core benefits include pension, bupa healthcare, sharesave scheme and more
• 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.

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