Senior Data Engineer
Allica BankAbout Allica Bank
Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.
Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.
Role Description
Data is a key asset to Allica and is deeply embedded in all our teams and products. With data, we assist and work with Finance, Operations, Credit Risk, Product and Management.
We are looking for ambitious and curious people who can help us understand our data better, contribute to building robust data pipelines and help model our data so that stakeholders and team members can extract better insights from it.
You will be an integral part of the data engineering team, building and developing the tooling and pipelines that form our data ingestion and modelling machine for our partnership's agreements.
Principal Accountabilities
Understand our data landscape and architecture.
Strong skillset in data modelling.
Build and maintain data pipelines.
Work with the team to engineer tools based on data requirements, manage development from prototyping to productionising.
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, improve existing tools for greater scalability, etc.
Develop and maintain data and coding standards, produce well-documented codes with robust testing and aligned with our data governance.
Helping us implement a data-driven mindset in the company.
Experience
Previous experience working as a data engineer in a start-up or fast-paced organisation.
STEM background or similar.
You have strong Python programming skills (built production-grade tools, have a test-driven approach, consistent and well documented code).
You have strong SQL skills.
Deployed applications on cloud services.
Experience in using orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster or Prefect).
Experience with container technology (Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (preferably Azure DevOps)
Experience with application deployment to Cloud services (GCP, AWS, Azure preferred)
Bonus requirements
Design and implement data frameworks.
Experience with using data testing tools (Great Expectations, Soda, deequ).
Experience with aspects of Data Governance.
Experience with automation projects with Python Web, API frameworks in Python (Flask, FastAPI).
You can share your GitHub repo (or equivalent)
Working at Allica Bank
At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.
Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:
Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
Options for flexible working
Regular social activities
Pension contributions
Discretionary bonus scheme
Private health cover
Life assuranc
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