Senior Data DevOps/Automation Engineer
Recruiter
Nationwide Building Society
Listed on
22nd March 2019
Location
Swindon
Salary/Rate
£50840 - £73436
Type
Permanent
Start Date
ASAP
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Senior Data DevOps/Automation EngineerIntroduction Based in our head offices in Swindon Up to £73,436 a year dependent on experience Permanent 35-hour per week contract Combining accountabilities for delivery, continuous improvement and building an in-house capability, this exciting new role means you'll work with cutting-edge technologies and industry leading vendors, as well as helping to drive our strategy. Your initial focus will be on delivering, embedding and evolving a DevOps toolchain to underpin and accelerate our Agile approach to data solutions delivery.
What you'll be doing
Reporting to the Senior Manager Data Engineering, you will lead the setup of a DevOps capability in the Data Solutions team, delivering efficient data pipelines, driving the adoption of data automation and working to make the delivery teams more efficient.
Linking the data engineers and data operations team you will be helping to implement a DevOps toolchain helping to drive efficient code management, test automation and deployment velocity onto both the Hadoop data lake and the Teradata enterprise warehouse.
Working with our designers and engineers, you will be looking continuously for further ways to adopt automation and improve efficiency in ways of working in order to reduce costs and increase pace.
In essence, you will be working as part of the team to "create the machine that builds the machine".
Who we're looking for
In addition to an inquisitive mindset and a passion for innovation, you will also: Have significant experience of working within a DevOps environment utilising a range of commercial and open source tools, with any exposure to Jira, TFS, UFT, Selenium and Jenkins a bonus Have a background in data engineering or operational support, again within a data domain Be experienced in driving both innovation and automation Have a good understanding and ideally some experience in the Hadoop big data appliance and a broad range of associated technologies, such as Python, R, Spark, HIVE, Scala Be a strong leader with a deep technical understanding as you will be required to set up and lead a team of engineers alongside setting strategy Have excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills It would be nice if you also had: Hands-on experience of commercial ETL tooling, such as Informatica, Ab Initio or DataStage Experience of appliance databases, such as Teradata Have worked in the financial sector for part of your career to date The extras you'll get
If you put a lot in, it's only fair you should get a lot out. So, if you help us do the right thing for our members, we'll help further your career with us.
As part of our team you'll get: Access to training to help you progress and develop your technical skills and career Pension scheme where if you pay in 7% we'll top it up to 23% Life assurance worth 8x your salary 24 days' holiday plus bank holidays The ability to 'buy' up to 10 days more holiday Flexible benefits scheme giving you access to discount vouchers at various retail outlets Access to an annual performance related bonus scheme
Interested?
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