Senior Data Engineer/Team Lead

Are you an experienced Data Engineer who wants to work with cutting edge technologies? Are you keen to build, develop and work at the forefront and centre of data engineering in a global enterprise? If so, this may be the role for you!

Reporting to the Data Engineering Manager you will

• Provide technical expertise and oversight for migration program of analytics workloads from on-prem analytics software to GCP BigQuery platform.
• Work with business teams to understand their requirements and to provide and coordinate support during the migration process.
• Assign migration tasks to junior team members and ensure they are progressing in line with migration plan.
• Identify and implement appropriate programs of testing and validation for migrated workloads.
• Create functional design specifications and/or user stories as required.
• Ensure all developments and project work are in line with Revenue standards.
• Quality assure code and output in the project.
• Peer review code.
• Identify and implement appropriate programs of testing and validation for migrated workloads.
• Mentor and coach junior members.
• Guide intermediate level team members in their work.
• Support project managers in all aspects of their work.
• Provide input to governance and status reports.
• Outline resource requirements for a project/sub team.
• Help track project progress against the plan and report variances.
• Identify and report on any technical risks that might be relevant to the project delivery.
• Manage issues and risks affecting the project/team.
• Investigate and prioritise live incidents. Perform root cause analysis and propose permanent fixes or suitable workarounds as required.
• Organise live incident tickets or bug tracking.
• Manage and monitor live issues across various Revenue Systems.
• Liaise with development / Continuous Service Improvement teams to identify and implement fixes as required to resolve live issues.
• Identify Continuous Service Improvements and work to implement the initiatives.

How this opportunity is different

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Engineer who wishes to broaden their role through working across multiple data and analytics projects and products. The Data Engineering team is working with new, innovative technologies such as Databricks, Unity Catalog, and AWS alongside established technologies like SQL Server.

Key Requirements/Skills required for this role: 

• Extensive experience in data engineering. 
• Experience with cloud-based data technologies and/or migration of data and associated systems to cloud.  
• Experience with AI-assisted development. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 
• Ability to manage and work with large teams. 
• Good team‐player, with strong interpersonal skills. Ability to connect, network and maximise the performance of a team in a challenging hybrid working environment. 
• Understanding of systems architecture and databases 
• Requirements gathering / Business Analysis skills to allow effective communication with the business and ensure smooth translation from business requirement to technical requirement. 
• Technical solution design skills to determine the optimum solution using the correct blend of technologies to meet a set of defined requirements. 
• Ability to perform complex analysis, to facilitate decision making and  determine the appropriate courses of action. 
• Ability to synthesise complex technical information and deliver meaningful messages to people of various technical abilities. 
• Sound grasp of the fundamentals of taxation and/or customs, from registration through  to returns filing and payment options. 
• Knowledge/experience of project delivery methodologies, application development lifecycle, waterfall development model, agile development model and hybrid development model. 
• Experience working in standards driven environments. 
• Experience working on engagements with technologies and architectures  similar to Revenue’s as outlined in Appendix 9 of RFT2024. 
• Experience working in coding languages as outlined in Appendix 9 of RFT2024. 
• Experience working with data using relational databases such as SQL and Ingres, and NoSQL frameworks such as Hadoop. 
• Familiarity with techniques for parsing and manipulating structured data formats, RDBMS, XML, JSON, text files, etc. 
• Ability to review project deliverables for completeness, quality and compliance with project standards. 

• Why Version 1?  
• At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.  

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits  
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme  
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance  
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme  
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies  
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat  
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.  
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.  

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.  

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.  

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.  

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.  

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