Data Engineer

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Drive the transformation of our data infrastructure by building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and leading the design of our enterprise data warehouse.

We are looking for a "full-stack" Data Engineer to build the backbone of our data infrastructure and own the end-to-end data lifecycle. You will architect enterprise-grade systems and build products that drive digitalisation, while tackling high-volume challenges such as processing half-hourly meter reads for our energy customers.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Pipeline Architecture: Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest large-scale datasets and high-frequency streams.
  • Enterprise Warehousing: Lead the design and evolution of our enterprise data warehouse, ensuring it is scalable and performant.
  • Modern Transformation: Manage our data transformation layer using Dataform (preferred) or dbt to orchestrate complex, reliable workflows.
  • Quality & Deployment: Implement automated testing frameworks and deploy scalable services using Docker and Kubernetes to ensure operational health.
  • Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a strategic partner to Product and Engineering, facilitating data design sessions to optimise how data is ingested and utilised.
  • Mentorship & Standards: Raise the bar for technical excellence within the squad through code reviews, design sessions, and documenting best practices.

We put people first. It’s all about you..

  • Technical Mastery:
    • You have extensive experience leading the design of data systems and models.
    • You are an expert in SQL and Python, with a proven ability to independently implement complex, production-ready projects.
    • You possess a deep understanding of dimensional modelling (Kimball) or Data Vault methodologies, essential for creating scalable enterprise schemas.
  • Impact & Scope:
    • You have a track record of leading high-impact initiatives that align with company strategy. You can evaluate proposed work against team goals and provide critical feedback to ensure value delivery.
  • Planning & Delivery:
    • You are capable of driving the end-to-end delivery of large-scale features, providing high-quality architectural diagrams and technical documentation.
  • Operational Excellence:
    • You have strong experience with modern DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and managing transformation layers at scale.
  • Business & Domain Knowledge:
    • You can advise senior stakeholders on applying Data Engineering to solve complex business problems and are comfortable facilitating cross-functional design sessions.
  • Leadership & Culture:
    • You role-model UW values by promoting a data-driven culture, mentoring peers, and communicating technical successes and failures clearly to the wider Technology & Product department.

Skills / Competencies

  • Strategic Problem Solving: Ability to break down vague, high-level business requirements into concrete, scalable technical architectures.
  • Clear Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Accountability: Willingness to take ownership of critical systems and participate in on-call rotations.
  • Continuous Learning: Proactively seeking out the latest industry trends and introducing relevant innovations to the team.

Possible Next Career Steps

  • Senior Data Engineer
  • Staff Data Engineer

Don’t worry if you don’t have the whole list. If you feel you have most of it and can learn the rest pretty quickly then please don’t hesitate to apply. Overall we are looking for imaginative and pragmatic problem-solvers who want to help make a positive impact with data at UW.

We’ve got big ambitions so there’s going to be plenty of challenges. There are also a lot of benefits: 

  • An industry benchmarked salary. We’ll share it during your first conversation.
  • Share Options and a Save as You Earn scheme.
  • Flexible remote working with the option to visit our London hubs for team meetings and company events. You'll have access to a range of hot desking spaces around the UK
  • Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme through Tusker
  • Discount on our services and you get our coveted Cashback Card for free. You’ll also get access to 100s of rewards and discounts through Perkbox
  • A matched contribution pension scheme and life assurance up to 4x your salary. You can also access free mortgage advice and a financial wellbeing tool.
  • Family-friendly policies, designed to help you and your family thrive.
  • Discounted private health insurance, access to an Employee Assistance line and a free Virtual GP. Our wellbeing app Unmind supports your mental health.
  • Belonging groups that help UW shape an even more inclusive future.
  • A commitment to helping you develop your career journey through learning, coaching and new experiences

Not sure you meet all the requirements? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs if they think they may not meet every qualification, when in fact they often do.

We provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your age, disability, gender, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. Please don’t be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered.

Please note, if you are successful and offered a role at UW, you will be subject to a background check. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks, could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible remote working with the option to visit our London hubs for team meetings and company events.
  • Career development commitment: A commitment to helping you develop your career journey through learning, coaching and new experiences.

Hello, we're UWWe’re a bunch of great people working together, solving problems and having fun. Together, we strive to find solutions to help the great people around us get on with the things that really matter in life.How? It’s simple, we take the headache out of essential home services by providing them all in one place – energy, broadband, mobile, and even insurance. That’s one provider, one account, one bill, and lots of savings.We’re a truly unique FTSE 250 company with a business model that has a real social impact at the heart of it. Being a part of the UW community, you’ll join a working environment like no other - one where everyone matters - be it our customers, our partners or you, our people.About the role We've created a new role in our Finance team to take responsibility for preparing financial analysis and spreadsheet models for all areas of the business. Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Analyst, you'll work closely with the Group Forecasting Manager, Head of Finance and the CFO- it's a great opportunity to gain exposure to high-level financial analysis and decision making in a FTSE 250 business.This is a highly analytical role so you'll need to skills to develop and maintain complex financial models as well as understand the commercial levers that drive different parts of our multi-service business.What you'll doYou will be responsible for preparing and developing the commercial models across the business in Excel, liaising directly with senior commercial colleagues.  You will also have the opportunity to assist the Group Forecasting Manager with Group forecasting.About youFinancial modelling experience in Excel, building complex and bespoke commercial models. This experience will be likely to have been gained in the modelling department of a professional advisory firm, or within the business analysis department of a company.A commercial approach with an ability and desire to understand the drivers of the business in detail, and model the underlying dynamics accurately.Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills.Ability to communicate effectively and succinctly with people at all levels of the organisation.Be able to demonstrate initiative and be proactive in measures taken to achieve responsibilities, particularly driving consistent improvements to analysis and decision-making.Proven ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines, whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy and focus. Crucially, a self-starter with an appetite to be hands-on.So why pick UW?We’re looking to double in size over the next 5 years so joining UW will accelerate your career. That’s not all, here’s some of the benefits you’ll get:An industry benchmarked salary that we'll share during your first conversation.Join in our success through a Share Options grant. You can also Save as you Earn.Hybrid working with 2 days in the office but we’re always open to a conversation about other working arrangements.Become a customer and save up to 30% on your utilities. We’ll throw in a free cashback card too so you can get even more bang for your buck!A matched contribution pension scheme & life assurance up to 4 x your salaryFamily friendly policies designed to help you and your family thriveWe take wellbeing seriously - As well as discounted private health insurance, you will have access to an Employee Assistance line and a free Virtual GP and regular health & wellbeing adviceBring your true self to work. Join one of our belonging groups and help UW shape an even more inclusive futureA commitment to helping you develop and grow in your role through a holistic approach to career developmentApply here !  If you think this is the role for you and want to be part of UW’s extraordinary growth, apply now. 

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