Lead Data Platform Engineer -Secondment

• Full-time
• Employee Status:
  Regular
• Role Type:
  Hybrid
• Department:
  Technology
• Schedule:
  
  Full Time

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.

Internal Grade D/EB8

Experian Credit Services & Verifications are looking for a Lead Data Platform Engineer to join our Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform team for a 6 month fixed-term contract.

Reporting into our Engineering Director, you will join an established agile team, with a passion and lead a technical team that supports innovation, learning and collaboration. Ensure that the team follows the highest technical standards. Support Agile methods to deliver high value outcomes.

This is a Hybrid, Nottingham based role (40% in the office).

Main responsibilities:

• Lead an outstanding Agile technical team
• Build data pipelines and data lake
• Deliver quality software
• Collaborate with the risk, security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, PCI DSS) and industry standards related to data privacy and security
• Understand where there are overlapping technical requirements in your team and other teams and help build out technology roadmaps
• Codebase ownership
• Technical Application ownership

• Strong experience with Dev Ops & IaC tooling
  - Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins , Harness
• Strong experience of developing on Apache Spark/Hadoop
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services including AWS Glue, S3, Step
• Strong experience building data pipelines and data lake
• Experience of the full development lifecycle/application Lifecycle Management Tools
  - Bit Bucket & Jira
• Significant experience of programming using Scala or Python. Configuration as code principles and API integration
• Write clean, scalable and re-usable code that implements SOLID principles, common design patterns where applicable and adheres to published coding standards
• Experience analyse, investigate and compare large data sets when required
• Functions, Lambdas, Event Bridge, SQS and Lake formation
• Experience with automated testing methodologies

Benefits package includes:

• Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan
• Core benefits include pension, bupa healthcare, sharesave scheme and more
• 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.

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