Senior Data & Analytics Engineer

Key Skills

AWS, Azure, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data Analytics, Data pipelines, Data science techniques, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Effective communication skills, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kanban, Looker, PowerBI, Scrum Agile Methodology, SQL, Tableau, Terraform

Job Description

Jet2.com and Jet2Holidays are always looking for great people to join our award-winning team of colleagues. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Data & Analytics Engineer to join our central data team at Jet2.com and Jet2Holidays as we continue our journey towards becoming a fully data-driven organisation and embed a data-first culture across our business.

Reporting to one of our Lead Data & Analytics Engineers, the Senior Data & Analytics Engineer will work as part of a multi-disciplinary, agile, data delivery team focused on the delivery of innovative, robust, and efficient data solutions to complex business problems. You will work alongside a team of passionate data professionals including other data and analytics engineers, test engineers, data scientists and data visualisation specialists.

Our priority is the delivery of high-quality, well-modelled, clean, and trustworthy data assets for use across the business. Our data teams also work hard to support all our data assets and ensure the business realise maximum benefit and return on investment from them.

What Do We Need You to Do?

• Mentoring: help support more junior colleagues providing advice and guidance as required to help with their development and the delivery of the team objectives.

• Data Delivery: be responsible for delivery of complex data solutions including the ingest of data from a wide variety of data sources into our analytics platforms (typically cloud-based but some work on our on-premise data analytics platforms), transformation and cleansing of data and modelling of data into our enterprise data warehouse for consumption by both technical users and non-technical business users via centrally developed reporting and visualisation or self-service platforms.

• Data Culture: drive a data-first culture both within the data team and across the business by supporting continual learning and development within your team and data enablement activity across the wider business. You will demonstrate a passion for data and encourage a similar passion within your team. As part of a data-first culture you may also be involved in supporting production data assets (not on a first-line basis).

What do we need you to be?

• Able to demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills and be comfortable communicating and building relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

• Experienced working in an Agile delivery environment, ideally using Scrum and\\or Kanban.

• Able to demonstrate strong proficiency in at least some of the following technical areas (cross-training and upskilling supported for the right individual where necessary)

• SQL (mandatory): a strong understanding of SQL and be comfortable reading and writing complex SQL queries ideally across multiple platforms.

• Cloud Platforms (highly desirable): experience working with key services on either GCP (preferred), AWS or Azure. Key services include cloud storage, containerisation,

• event-driven services, orchestration, cloud functions and basic security/user management.

• Data Warehousing (highly desirable): experience working on a data warehouse solution irrespective of underlying technology. Experience using cloud data warehouse technology would also be beneficial - Snowflake (preferred), Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift or Azure Synapse.

• Data Pipeline (highly desirable): Demonstrable experience working with data from a wide variety of data sources including different database platforms, flat files, API’s and event-driven data feeds. Experience building complex data transformations ideally using dbt. Experience working with large data volumes, near real-time or event-driven data would be an advantage. Knowledge of programming languages such as Python would be beneficial.

Additional Desirable Technical and other skills:

• CI\\CD & Automation (desirable): Any experience developing or supporting data CI\\CD pipelines regardless of tooling would be beneficial. We use Microsoft Azure DevOps to run most of our CI\\CD pipelines. We also rely heavily on Infrastructure as Code for cloud infrastructure deployment so any experience with technology such as Terraform would be beneficial in this respect.

• Data Visualisation (desirable): Although we have dedicated data visualisation specialists within the team, any knowledge of, or experience with, data visualisation platforms such as Tableau (preferred), Power BI, Looker or Quicksight would be beneficial.

• Although not required for this role, any prior experience acting as a mentor for more junior members of a team would be beneficial.

What Can We Offer You?

We have been recognised as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in the UK on Glassdoor and offer our valued colleagues a range of benefits including: -

• Competitive salary, with annual pay review
• Contributory pension scheme
• 34 days holiday including Bank Holidays per annum (pro rata dependent upon contracted hours)
• 3 x salary life assurance
• Generous Discretionary Profit Share Scheme
• Colleague discounts on Jet2holidays and Jet2.com holidays and flights
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders
• Many retail discounts on – travel and leisure, health, and wellbeing, eating out, shopping and lifestyle
• Mon - Fri 08:30 - 17:30 (discretionary 15:00 Friday finish)
• Remote Working, Office-based or Hybrid

We offer an excellent remuneration package with fantastic opportunities for progression in a growing business.

This is a great opportunity to be part of an exciting forward-thinking business. We operate scheduled leisure flights to holiday destinations in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands and to European Leisure Cities from our 10 UK bases.