Senior/Lead Data Engineer - Manchester, United Kingdom - Kin + Carta

Description

The role

in a nutshell:

Actively participate in iterative development processes focused on delivering high value outputs to clients; contributing to definition of minimal viable product, helping to size work, prioritising areas of focus and owning task completion.

Designing, building and testing data products thats solve real problems for real users

Designing, building and testing cloud hosted data pipelines, platforms & infrastructure

Designing, building and testing data migrations from legacy solutions into modern cloud platforms

Helping clients implement ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality

Helping data scientists and machine learning engineers to scale and publish their models into production

Working with designers and business subject matter experts to help visualise insights

Performing ad-hoc analyses of data to help organisations understand its meaning, limitations and quality

Interfacing with clients and providing technical recommendations for building data products, platforms and pipelines

Helping to evaluate emerging tools, applications, technologies and practices

Working with experienced data engineers, data scientists, and data architects to develop and grow as an engineer

The type of person we'd love to meet:

We want all new hires to succeed in their roles at Kin + Carta. That's why we've outlined the types of experiences that we find it desirable for you to have, we recognise that Data Engineering is a growing craft and every data engineer has a different story to tell, if your story involves experience in any of the following we'd be keen to hear from you:

Previous engineering work with Search/Discovery Engines, e.g

● Elasticsearch
● SOLR
● Lucidworks
● Azure Cognitive Search
● Algolia
● Google Vertex AI Search

We are also keen to hire people who may have experience in some of the following areas, this isn't essential but we do get excited when people have a little bit extra to bring to the table:

Google Cloud certification or experience, e.g.

Google Certified Data Engineer

Google Certified Cloud Engineer

Google Certified Cloud Architect

Platform Engineering experience e.g.Terraform

Our benefits

Curious minds are nurtured at Kin + Carta through a wide range of benefits including:

Dedicated team learning budget Hybrid remote working policy Global leadership programmes Flexible working hours Enhanced Christmas leave Dog friendly offices Subsidised private healthcare Discounted gym membership