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CTS & CloudM • Manchester / Edinburgh / London

Data Engineer

Employment type:  Full time

3–4 days/week at home

A little flex time

Job Description

Data Engineer

Become a specialist in Google Cloud Data Services!

Are you passionate about data? Would you be excited about building cloud first data platforms, potentially processing and storing terabytes of data, enabling businesses to make better decisions? Are you a quick learner and into working with cutting-edge technologies? If so, let’s talk!

We are looking for a Data Engineer to design, implement and maintain modern cloud data platforms at scale utilising both Google Cloud Platform and open source services. This is an opportunity to work with a world leader in data and machine learning technologies.

You’ll work alongside great GCP Engineering teams (Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Platform Engineers, Cloud Architects, Software Engineers), taking full ownership of your tasks and responsibilities, with opportunities to do back-end, front-end and infrastructure development.

If you have an interest in working on innovative projects with cutting edge technology using Google Cloud Platform, this job could be a great opportunity for you.

*Please Note: Previous experience with GCP is not a prerequisite; experience of other public cloud providers (AWS or Azure) would be sufficient.

What you’ll do:

  • Work with your fellow Data Engineers to translate customer requirements into technical designs, and follow this through to delivery of the solution. You will be able to design highly available, complex data platforms.
  • Understand customer data structures and transformation requirements to build suitable solutions on Google Cloud Platform
  • Contribute to the design, plan and build of highly available, global and cloud native data platforms
  • Assist customers in understanding how cloud technology can help them grow and the benefits it offers

Key Skills:

  • Commercial experience in the area of data engineering or machine learning
  • Confident communicator both written and verbally
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure), including the use of their data related components to build solutions.
  • Experience building large data architectures
  • Experience building ETL / ELT pipelines, Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
  • Experience in using languages like Python, R and SQL as well as Google database services like Firestore, Cloud SQL, Big Query and/or their equivalents from other Cloud providers
  • Experienced in using unit testing and CI / CD
  • A solid grounding working with common data modelling techniques and SQL (e.g. MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • Working knowledge of data governance principles (e.g. data profiling, data cataloguing, managing access controls, etc.)
  • Experience using Git and related tooling
  • A good understanding of some of the following:

Hadoop / Spark | Apache Airflow | Apache Beam | Relational database technologies (Microsoft SQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL) | Teradata | Tensorflow | Analytical tools (Looker, Tableau, Qlik, Data Studio)

Desirable Skills:

  • Experience with or knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (e.g. Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Firestore, etc.)
  • Exposure to real time data ingestion / streaming data sources
  • Experience in or knowledge of working in an agile project based environment
  • Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Science or equivalent experience

Location:

This role could also be remote based in the UK or Netherlands, with occasional travel to CTS offices and customer sites (post-Covid). We have offices in Central Manchester and Utrecht, and shared office spaces in Central London.

What you’ll get:

In addition to the competitive salary, you’ll get private health insurance and company contributed pensions as standard.

We have a multitude of other benefits, including a market leading parental leave policies, health & wellbeing initiatives and access to a discounts and rewards programme (including discounted gym membership)

You’ll be invited to the bi-annual international company ‘kick off’ conferences, which are a great chance to meet your colleagues that you don’t see everyday.

About Us:

CTS is the largest dedicated Google Cloud practice in Europe and one of the world’s leading cloud transformation experts. We offer a unique full stack Google Cloud solution for businesses, encompassing cloud migration, transformative working and IT infrastructure, through to machine learning, big data and app development.

We have a brilliant team of more than 200 people in offices in Manchester, Edinburgh & Utrecht as well as across our globally remote workforce. But we’re still growing, and that means we need more brilliant people who share our ambition to join our team.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement:

At CTS, we look after each other and support everyone on our team. We’re proud of our people-centred culture; our diversity brings us innovation and our commitment to inclusion drives us forward. If you share these values and would be interested in joining one of our teams, get in touch today!

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory
Enhanced paternity leave – 5 weeks to be taken within first 2 years (not more than 2 weeks in any 6month period)
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory
Shared parental leave
Work from anywhere scheme – work overseas for up to 3 months in any 12 month period.
Unlimited annual leave
Enhanced sick pay – 10 paid sick days per annum
Pregnancy loss leave
Teambuilding days
Teambuilding holidays
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Open to part time work for some roles
Enhanced sick days
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Mental health platform access
Gym membership
Compassionate leave
Birthday off
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Life assurance
Matched pension contribution
Volunteer days
Personal development days
Personal development budgets
Company wide holidays/offsites
L&D budget
Financial coaching
Charity donation scheme
Lunch and learns
Employee assistance programme
Skilled worker visas
Employee discounts
Core benefits such as Company Contributed Pensions and Private Health Insurance with a fully comprehensive mental health support package, plus dental and optical reimbursements.
Opportunities to be involved with our DEI and Environmental Boards who strive to pave the way not just in our company but in our industry, making a real difference.
Investment in you - We'll pay for certifications, and give you paid time off to study or attend interesting events.
Location
96%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
91%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
83%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
85%
Employees feel that they can find the perfect balance of life and work
Role modelling
91%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
93%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at CTS & CloudM

Company employees

290

Gender diversity (male:female:non-binary)

65:35:0

Office locations

Manchester (Head Office), London, Edinburgh and Utrecht

Hiring Countries

Netherlands
United Kingdom

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