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We’re hiring for a Junior Data Engineer to join our Data team. As a Junior Data Engineer, you will support the growth of the Data Engineering function. You will be part of a growing team, developing the Data Engineering community of practice and defining data standards across the organisation.
Why Footasylum?
We’ve been going through a digital transformation, changing how we deliver value to our business. A big part of this change is fostering a culture of being open and honest, collaborating, having fun and enabling psychological safety.
The Team
The data team is an enabling team and as such it is important to note that we are a key function for all other teams across the business. We consist of two teams – Business Intelligence Developers and Data Engineering – who work closely alongside each other from end to end. We design solutions together and share best practice. Within the teams we recognise individual skillsets and encourage knowledge sharing sessions and self-development.
About You
We are looking for a driven individual who has a keen eye for detail and strives to ensure that they produce accurate information through visually appealing reporting. Ideally, you will be comfortable liaising with technical teams to understand how business processes reflect in the data produced and are able to relay this back to stakeholders.
What you will do:
- Deliver the engineering roadmap and champion Data Engineering across the business.
- Contribute towards design and implementation decisions using principles and best practices, making decisions that move the architecture forward.
- Work with more senior members of the team to develop your skills, MS Certification available.
- Be an advocate for standard methodologies and strong CI /CD principles.
- Advocate working in the open by demonstrating your work; use creative ways to bring to life the value of the Data Engineering team.
- Drive a data driven culture, ensuring data is at the forefront of decision making across product teams and the business.
- Work with the business and data team to establish a self-service data culture.
Skills you will need:
- Databricks, Data Factory, Azure SQL, Azure SQL DW.
- Managing multiple priorities in a fast paced environment alongside evolving the data tech stack and practices.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and how they can be used to solve modern business problems.
Diversity?
We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.
Recruitment Process?
We’ll help make the interview process as transparent and stress-free as possible.
We review applications individually, and if we feel you would be a good fit, we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role and to see if we’re a good fit for you.
We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, allowing you to learn about our work in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel this is your opportunity.
Please note this is not a remote role, and we expect that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way in Greater Manchester.
