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Senior Data Engineer (Data Platform)

Teya
London, GBR
Full-time
Senior
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago

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Your Role

  • We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our team and help shape the future of our data platform. This role focus on data platform, building and maintaining the core data infrastructure, working on the entire lifecycle of data from our ingestion pipelines and their infrastructure to orchestration and governance.
  • You will play a key role in expanding the capabilities of our data platform, helping build new features that power decision-making across the organisation. This includes every stage of an ELT process, both at the pipeline level and the underlying infrastructure as well as working with engineering teams on how to best leverage our data..
  • As a senior member of the Data Engineering team, you will contribute to platform architecture, data product thinking, and engineering best practices, helping build a world-class scalable Data Platform that enables both analytics and future AI capabilities.
  • We want you to wonder about centralized vs decentralized provisioning of data tools, the trade-off between complex governance systems vs ease-of-use and data democratization, how to create simple processes to manage all the phases of the Data lifecycle and how to have some fun while doing it.

Your main responsibilities will include:

Designing and evolving the architecture of our data infrastructure

Maintaining the existing data platform

Ensuring the reliability of our data ingestion pipelines

Propagating learnings in the Data Engineering team to other parts of Teya

Guaranteeing proper data governance following best practices, while not adding 100 steps of bureaucracy

Improving data reliability, quality, and observability across key datasets, while ensuring data pipelines are simple to set up.

Building, maintaining, and improving data models for large and complex datasets, while ensuring they have a simple lifecycle

Designing and optimising ETL/ELT pipelines to support scalable analytics and data products

Collaborate with data analysts, analytics engineering and engineering teams to turn their data platform use cases into reliable production solutions

Participate in the team's on-call rotation, investigate production incidents and contribute to improvements across Teya to prevent them from recurring.

Participate in technical discussions and code reviews, contributing to maintainable designs and strong engineering standards

Create and maintain clear technical documentation and operational runbooks

Your Story

5+ years experience in Data Engineering or Data Platform Engineering or Software Engineering working with Data

Strong SQL expertise, particularly in complex analytical and warehouse queries

Proficiency in Python and/or Java

Experience with Data Warehouses, such as Snowflake or Apache Iceberg

Practical knowledge deploying and operating containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes

Knowledge of streaming tooling (Kafka, Kafka Connect, Flink,...)

Experience with ETL/ELT tooling (dbt, Airflow, Airbyte, dlt,..)

Hands-on experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure with Terraform

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and Git-based development workflows

Familiarity with observability practices, including logging, metrics, alerting and production troubleshooting.

Strong grasp of software engineering principles and best practices

Experience contributing to or leading data warehouse architecture or redesign initiatives

Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Strong experience with data warehousing, dimensional modelling, and data architecture

Teya is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or background can thrive and do their best work. We believe that a diverse team leads to better ideas, stronger outcomes, and a more supportive workplace for all.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process whether for interviews, assessments, or other parts of the application—we encourage you to let us know. We are committed to ensuring that every candidate has a fair and accessible experience with us.

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