Senior Data Platform Engineer
Job description
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Luton/Hybrid
Company
We are easyJet – a FTSE-250 listed, £multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easyJet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.
We fly more than 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy – and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.
What makes us easyJet? Our Promise Behaviours – we are Safe, Bold, Welcoming and Challenging. Four Behaviours. One Spirit. One easyJet.
Job Purpose
With a big investment into Databricks, and with a large amount of interesting data, this is the chance for you to come and be part of an exciting transformation in the way we store, analyse and use data in a fast paced organisation. You will join as a Senior Platform Data Engineer providing technical leadership to the Data Engineering team. You will work closely with our Data Scientists and business stakeholders to ensure value is delivered through our solutions.
Job Accountabilities
• Develop robust, scalable data pipelines to serve the easyJet analyst and data science community.
• Highly competent hands-on experience with relevant Data Engineering technologies, such as Databricks, Spark, Spark API, Python, SQL Server, Scala.
• Work with data scientists, machine learning engineers and DevOps engineers to develop, develop and deploy machine learning models and algorithms aimed at addressing specific business challenges and opportunities.
• Coach and mentor the team (including contractors) to improve development standards.
• Work with Business Analysts to deliver against requirements and realise business benefits.
• Build a documentation library and data catalogue for developed code/products.
• Oversight of project deliverables and code quality going into each release.
