Experian

Lead Data Platform Engineer

Nottingham, United Kingdom · Hybrid · Full-time

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EmployerExperian
LocationNottingham, United Kingdom
Work styleHybrid
Employment typeFull-time
Employer posted2 months ago

Experian Credit Services & Verifications are looking for a Lead Data Platform Engineer to join our Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform team.

Reporting into our Engineering Director, you will join an established agile team, with a passion and lead a technical team that supports innovation, learning and collaboration. Ensure that the team follows the highest technical standards. Support Agile methods to deliver high value outcomes.

This is a Hybrid, Nottingham based role (40% in the office).

Main responsibilities:

Lead an outstanding Agile technical team
Build data pipelines and data lake
Deliver quality software
Collaborate with the risk, security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, PCI DSS) and industry standards related to data privacy and security
Understand where there are overlapping technical requirements in your team and other teams and help build out technology roadmaps
Codebase ownership
Technical Application ownership

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Strong experience with DevOps & IaC tooling - Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins , Harness
Strong experience of developing on Apache Spark/Hadoop
Strong experience with AWS cloud services including AWS Glue, S3, Step
Strong experience building data pipelines and data lake
Experience of the full development lifecycle/application Lifecycle Management Tools - BitBucket & Jira
Significant experience of programming using Scala or Python. Configuration as code principles and API integration
Write clean, scalable and re-usable code that implements SOLID principles, common design patterns where applicable and adheres to published coding standards
Experience analyse, investigate and compare large data sets when required
Functions, Lambdas, EventBridge, SQS and Lake formation
Experience with automated testing methodologies

Benefits package includes:

Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan
Core benefits include pension, bupa healthcare, sharesave scheme and more
25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.

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