Data Engineer

Aptitude Global is looking for a talented Data Engineer to join our team. You'll be working as a part of a team within Data Engineering and closely with software engineering teams and architects to deliver strategic data solutions, while driving Agile and DevOps adoption in the delivery of data engineering.

Why join us?

At Aptitude Global we are specialists in Data, helping businesses to leverage the power of their data to drive real-world impact. We apply a 'Business First' approach to solving complex Data problems for our clients from predominantly regulated industries including financial services, legal, pharma, and energy.

What do I need to do?

• Working closely with the product owners to understand their data requirements and designing solutions for the same.
• Enable product owners and management to derive value through modelling, sourcing and data transformation.
• Enable product owners to understand the uptake of various product(s) by building reports and visualisations from data.
• Developing comprehensive knowledge of the data structures and metrics, advocating change where needed.
• Educating and embedding new data techniques into the business through role modelling, training and experiment design oversight.
• Delivering maintainable data engineering pipelines by following the best practices through the designated route-to-live environments.

What skills and experience do I need?

• Experience with SQL.
• Ability to design, build, and maintain data pipelines for data ingestion and transformation (e.g. Azure Data Factory, DataBricks).
• Experience of BI tools and Data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark - preferably using Python (PySpark) or Scala.
• Experience working with cloud. Azure is preferred, but AWS and GCP are also valuable.
• Knowledge of version control working with git (gitlab, github, bitbucket, etc).
• Knowledge of CI/CD in relation to the data engineering pipelines.

I am in the right place if:

• Passionate about delivering true value and benefits for clients.
• Ability to clearly express technical concepts, ideas, and conclusions orally and in writing.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven track record of consistent stakeholder management across all levels of a business.
• Ability to work collaboratively across both client and other third party teams.
• Careful and diligent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Comfortable assuming accountability and responsibility for driving the success of a solution.
• Self-starter: comfortable in taking the first steps to identify and address existing and potential obstacles, issues, and opportunities.

What can we offer you?

• A 100% remote, full-time, permanent or contractor position.
• Flexible hours for personal and professional reconciliation.
• Condense week (Every friday, finish at 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET)
• Training and continuous improvement. We have in-house trainers and professional mentors to facilitate this!
• Health insurance.
• English lessons.
• And most importantly, an innovative and multicultural environment!