Job Title: Data Engineer
Location: York (once a week)
Department: Data \& Business Intelligence
Salary: £55,000 - 60,000 + Excellent Benefits
Type: Full-Time, Permanent
About the Role:
WRK Digital is proud to partner exclusively with a well-known, high-profile organisation on a transformative data journey. We are
seeking a
Data Engineer
to join its dynamic Data \& Business Intelligence function. This is a pivotal role in a data-driven organisation, where high-quality, well-governed, and accessible data is central to strategic and operational decision-making.
As a Data Engineer, you will help shape and deliver the future of data within the business, designing and maintaining robust data pipelines and curated data products within a cloud-based data lake environment. You will play a key role in embedding data engineering best practices, supporting colleagues across the data community, and ensuring the delivery of impactful, reusable data assets that power analytics, machine learning, and operational efficiencies.
Key Responsibilities:
Work with the Senior Data Engineers to maintain the Data Sourcing Roadmap in JIRA, providing high level estimates to enable effective prioritisation of activities in line with the Data Strategy
Support the Senior Engineers in conducting the discovery and design activities for new Data Assets, engaging with suppliers, data owners and InfoSec / DPO to ensure designs meet the requirements, are agreed and are captured in Confluence with the necessary JIRA tickets created for development
Develop, deploy and manage performant \& robust data pipelines and high-quality data assets in line with designs, with progress updated via JIRA and any blockers identified and escalated.
Support other Data Engineers to develop, deploy and manage performant \& robust data pipelines and high-quality data assets in line with designs, with progress updated via JIRA and any blockers identified and escalated.
Ensure all data pipeline and quality issues are tracked with recommendations made for strategic improvements where there are repeated or high impacting issues
Promote standards and best practices within the data community.
Key Requirements:
Essential:
Experience as a Data Engineer delivering data pipelines that create high-quality data assets that are stable, scalable and re-useable.
Experience developing and deploying data pipelines within an AWS S3 Data Lake using VS Code, Glue, Lambda, Git Hub and Terraform
Experience with / understanding of a wide variety of analytics tools such as SQL, Alteryx, AWS Sagemaker, Quicksight, Tableau and PowerBI
Desirable:
Experience using Lake Formation
Experience with AWS Kinesis / Firehose for real-time data pipelines
Experience of rail, airline or leisure industry
Experience with data warehousing and AWS Redshift
Why Join?
This is a unique opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation investing heavily in its data capability. You’ll be part of a growing team at the heart of transformation, contributing to large-scale projects that impact customer experience, operational efficiency, and strategic direction.
This role can be based anywhere in the UK with travel to York once a week.
Apply now to be part of a data-driven journey that’s just getting started.