Remote Senior Data Engineer

Description:

• Pion is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their growing team.
• The role involves designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines to ensure high-quality data is available for analytics and business decision-making.
• The ideal candidate will enjoy collaboration, be proactive in problem-solving, and be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Key responsibilities include defining data engineering best practices, working closely with analysts and business stakeholders, gathering requirements, providing project updates, and managing workload autonomously.
• Technical responsibilities include designing and maintaining data pipelines, ensuring data accuracy and documentation, optimizing data storage and processing, implementing infrastructure as code, and working with event tracking solutions.

Requirements:

• Candidates should have experience with software development principles and agile methodology.
• Strong experience in Python for data processing and automation is required.
• Proficiency in SQL, including writing complex queries and optimizing performance with large datasets, is necessary.
• Experience with core AWS services such as S3, Lambda, and Glue is essential.
• Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git, is required.

Benefits:

• Pion offers a competitive salary and 30 days of annual leave plus public holidays.
• The company is recognized as a 'Great Place To Work' in three categories.
• Employees enjoy a remote-first working environment with flexible working hours.
• Pion focuses on employee welfare, providing gym memberships, wellness challenges, and mental health support.
• There are partnership discounts available for major brands like Google, Apple, and GymShark.
• The company is committed to personal development, offering learning budgets, coaching workshops, and progression plans.
• A £200 work from home setup allowance is provided to enhance home office environments.