Job Details
Salary: Competitive
Hours: 37.5 per week, Mon - Fri
Location: Crawley, West Sussex - three days per week
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 29 April 2024
In a nutshell
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing Data and AI team.
This role focuses on the establishment of data processing guidelines, leading data model design & implementation, and designing efficient & scalable ETL codebases, while reviewing and guiding other data engineers' work.
You will be designing and developing robust data cleansing, monitoring, and management solutions, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure data integrity and compliance.
The role drives the constant improvement of our CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes, promoting DevOps best practices and staying current with emerging technologies to foster innovation and excellence in the data engineering team.
Day to day
Some of your key responsibilities as our Senior Data Engineer will be:
- Establishing, maintaining an ensuring data processing and architecture guidelines and standards. Leading the design & development of efficient, scalable ETL codebases and quality assuring other data engineers' designs, models & code.
- Overseeing the maintenance and optimisation of databases, ensuring high availability and performance. Provide guidance to junior data engineers on database management best practices.
- Designing and implementing robust data cleansing routines, monitoring processes, and master data management solutions. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity, compliance, and consistency across data sources.
- Establishing and implementing best practices for codebase maintenance, including versioning, documentation, and collaboration. Mentor junior data engineers on coding standards and foster a culture of clean, maintainable, and reusable code.
- Leading the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes to streamline the development lifecycle. Optimising use of cloud resources for cost and performance. Promote DevOps best practices.
- Serving as a technical leader and mentor, staying on top of emerging trends and technologies. Drive innovation, lead proof-of-concept initiatives, and promote a culture of excellence within the data engineering team.
About you
In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:
- 5+ years of data engineering experience or Bachelors/Masters degree in a relevant subject with 3+ years experience in an enterprise setting.
- Expertise in data modeling, ETL processes, DevOps, Python, SQL and API frameworks
- Strong proficiencies in Azure services (ADF, ADLS, Synapse, Functions, MQ etc) and other cloud technologies: Databricks, Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with airline and travel systems, data and concepts beneficial
- Highly curious about the business with excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration abilities
If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!
Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you'd like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we've got your individual considerations covered.