Senior Data Engineer

About The Role
Hippo is recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Hippo Herd. Our Senior Data Engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to build solutions that make data accessible to enable solutions to be optimised by using an evidence-based approach. Engaging with our clients you will design and implement data solutions ensuring solutions are integrated with internal systems and business processes.
Your role in a nutshell:
- Act as an SME within the Hippo squad to lead, design and implement data solutions that meet business requirements.
- Help architects realise data system design such as Meshes, Warehouses and Event based systems
- Implement data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems
- Re-engineer, develop and optimise code to ensure processes perform optimally
- Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders
- Work with the Hippo community to share best practice to ensure high standards
- Involved in the recruitment and on-boarding of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development
- Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd internally and externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences)
About the Candidate:
- Proven track record in Python
- Proficiency in R, Bash, Java/.NET and/or PowerShell desirable
- Experience in at least one Cloud Platform (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Broad knowledge across cloud architectures, networking and distributed computing systems
- Experience of data system design such as Data Lakes, Data Meshes and Data Warehouses.
- Experience of a wide range of data sources, SQL, NoSQL and Graph.
- A proven track record of infrastructure delivery on any data platform (Snowflake, Elastic, Redshift, Data Bricks, Splunk, etc).
- Strong and demonstrable experience writing regular expressions and/or JSON parsing, etc.
- Strong experience in log processing (Cribl, Splunk, Elastic, Apache NiFi etc.)
- Expertise in the production of dashboard/insight delivery
- Be able to demonstrate a reasonable level of security awareness (An understanding of basic security best practices, OAuth, MFA, TLS, etc.)
- Experience in the processing of large datasets
- A firm understanding of data modelling and normalisation concepts
- Good estimation skills for times, latencies and costs.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams desirable
- Teamwork and presentation skills, experience of mentor led working practices
About The Company
As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
- Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
- 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
- Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
- Critical illness cover
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions
- Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
- private health cover
- private dental cover
- additional company pension contributions
- additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- wellbeing contribution
- charity contributions
- tree planting
Hi, we’re Hippo Digital.
At Hippo Digital, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.
Hippo locations
We are headquartered in Leeds and located across the UK in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide, so don't let location hold you back from applying. We welcome candidates from all over the UK who possess the flexibility to work from any of our locations. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k to help make your move a smooth one. It's worth noting that, given the dynamic nature of our business, you may be required to work on-site at client locations or from your own home.
Diversity and Inclusion at Hippo Digital: A commitment to lasting change
At Hippo Digital, we're wholeheartedly dedicated to promoting diversity, equality and inclusion. For us, it's not about checking off boxes but about making a true, lasting difference. Having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem-solving while fostering an inclusive environment that benefits everyone. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply and join us on this important journey.