Lead Data Engineer

Posted 12 Days Ago
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London, Greater London, England
5-7 Years Experience
Database
The Role
As a Technical Lead, you will mentor and guide junior data engineers, manage data processing systems, and implement Quantexa’s innovative technology in various domains. Your role involves engaging with business teams and clients to translate requirements into technical tasks and collaborating with solution architects and R&D engineers on big data solutions.
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Description

What we’re all about.

It isn’t often you get to be part of a tech company that, since 2016, has been innovating the data analytics market in ways no-one else can. Our technology started out in FinTech, helping tackle serious criminal activity. Now, its potential is virtually limitless. Working at Quantexa isn't just intellectually stimulating. We’re a real team. Collaborating and constantly engineering better and better solutions. We’re ambitious, we think things through and we’re on a mission to discover just how far we can go. Nearly half of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We’re made up of people from 47 nationalities who speak over 20 languages. As a diverse mix of individuals, we make one big unstoppable team. If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us.

The opportunity.

Our Quantexa Delivery team is all about bringing context to data. Lead Data Engineers are drivers within our fast-paced delivery teams, implementing Quantexa’s innovative technology for an ever-expanding list of domains including banking, insurance, government, healthcare. We are problem solvers, delivering sophisticated end-to-end big data solutions to our internal and external client stakeholders. As a central part of our team, you will experience opportunities beyond that of an engineer. You enjoy leading by example, guiding and mentoring data engineers to solve complex technical problems, sharing success with the team and taking pride in achieving milestones together. You share success with the team and take pride in the sum of its achievements. You will balance your time engaging with our business teams and clients to break down requirements into technical tasks, working hands-on as a programmer, and supporting the work of other engineers within a collaborative environment.

The work you do here will be impactful. The challenges we tackle are big, but they're also incredibly rewarding. Your leadership in managing, transforming, and cleansing high volume data help our clients solve business problems across a wide range of areas including fraud, financial crime, data management, risk and customer intelligence.

What you’ll be doing.

  • You will lead, support, and mentor a team of junior data engineers within an agile framework.
  • Write defensive, fault tolerant and efficient code for production level data processing systems.
  • You’ll configure and deploy Quantexa’s software using tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Scala, Elasticsearch, with our platform being hosted on both private and public virtual clouds, such as Google cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon.
  • You will be a trusted source of knowledge to your clients. You will articulate technical concepts to a non-technical audience helping them to make big decisions.
  • Collaborate with both our solution architects and our R&D engineers to champion solutions and standards for complex big data challenges. You proactively promote knowledge sharing and ensure best practice is followed.
Requirements

What you’ll bring.

  • You’ll have a background in hands-on technical development, with at least five years of industry experience in a data engineering role or engineering equivalent, and at least 2 years of experience acting in a lead role within a data or software engineering team.
  • Proficiency in Scala, Java, Python, or a programming language associated with data engineering. Our primary language is Scala, but don’t worry if that’s not currently your strongest language, we believe that strong engineering principles are universal and transferrable.
  • You’ll have expertise building and deploying production level data processing batch systems maintained by application support teams. Importantly you’ll share an appreciation of what makes a high quality, operationally stable system and how to streamline all areas of development, release, and operations to achieve this.
  • Experience with a variety of modern development tooling (e.g. Git, Gradle, Nexus) and technologies supporting automation and DevOps (e.g. Jenkins, Docker and a little bit of good old Bash scripting). You’ll be familiar with developing within a version-controlled process that regularly makes use of these tools and technologies.
  • A strong technical communication ability with demonstrable experience of working in rapidly changing client environments. 
  • Knowledge of testing libraries of common programming languages (such as ScalaTest or equivalent). Knows the difference between different test types (unit test, integration test) and can cite specific examples of what they have written themselves.

Nice to haves.

  • Experience growing and up-skilling team members as a career mentor, technical line manager, or acting in an equivalent guidance role.
  • A passion for expanding the business – and leading initiatives to do so.
Benefits

Our perks and quirks.

What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.

We offer:

  • Regularly benchmarked salary rates at the highest quarter following all principles of equal pay & company bonus
  • Flexible working hours in a hybrid workplace & free access to global WeWork locations & events
  • Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%)
  • 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off!
  • Work from Anywhere Scheme: Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period
  • Work from Home Allowance
  • Family: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
  • Health & Wellbeing: Private Healthcare, EAP, Well-being Days, Calm App, Gym Discounts
  • Team's Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter Parties
  • Tech & Cycle-to-Work Schemes
  • Volunteer Day off
  • Dog-friendly Offices

Our mission

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.

It's all about you

Quantexa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment, where everyone feels welcome, valued, and respected. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, citizenship, marital, disability, or veteran status. Whoever you are, if you’re a curious, caring, and authentic human being who wants to help push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.
Internal pay equity across departments is crucial to our global compensation philosophy. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of experience, education, training, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data.
Quantexa is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our talent acquisition processes. If you require support, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team.

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Top Skills

Hadoop
Scala
Spark
The Company
London
617 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

When it comes to making the right decisions for your organization, more is possible with the right data, in the right context.

Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform gives customers the ability to understand their data by connecting siloed systems and visualizing complex relationships. The result is a single view of data that becomes their most trusted and reusable resource across the organization.

Quantexa helps customers establish a culture of confident decision making at strategic, operational, and tactical levels to mitigate risk and seize opportunities on their path to building efficient and resilient organizations.

Quantexa is a global business with offices in London, Spain, Amsterdam, Brussels, New York, Boston, Toronto, Singapore, UAE, Melbourne and Sydney.

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