Data Engineer

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Position summary:

Brassline is hiring a Data Engineer to work remotely from the UK. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. This role is fully remote within the UK. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day:

• Write data quality tests with dbt or Great Expectations and alert on failures
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect
• Process large datasets with Spark on Databricks or EMR
• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers
• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests

Required qualifications:

• 3-5 years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions
• Strong Python for data processing
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services
• Patience with messy source data and the habit of documenting assumptions
• Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow

Compensation: £62,000 to £82,000 pa

Benefits:

• Healthcare cash plan
• Workplace pension
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Flexible working hours

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Brassline Ltd.