esure Hiring for Data Engineer at Reigate Full Time

Company Description

Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.

Please note, this role has a closing date of the 8th January.

Job Description

We currently have a great opportunity for a Data Engineer to join our team. The purpose of this role is to help maximise the capabilities of our database and improve the overall platform by developing and managing the data engineering stack. You will be responsible for the ingestion, storage, and development of data pipelines into our data platform.

The ideal candidate will have experience with SQL, Python, Cloud (ideally AWS), knowledge of CICD and a passion for Data Bricks.

This offers fantastic training and development with a chance to add real value.

The day to day:

• Build and support our data products within our industry leading platform
• Work with product managers and data engineers to come up with technical solutions for our most pressing data problems
• Integrate data from a variety of sources, assuring that they adhere to data quality and technical standards
• Crafting frameworks and processes for data pipelines across the data and analytics platform
• Improve data engineering processes and roll these out across our team and wider data community
• Setting coding standards across the platform, naming conventions across data products, championing and enforcing both.
• Working in a cross functional agile squad.
• Working with architects on best design for data products and evaluating and experimenting with new data tools

Qualifications

You are a good fit for the role if you have the following…

• Data systems design passion
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) on AWS
• Proficient in Python with expertise in data ecosystem, Airflow, and Great Expectations
• CICD implementation using Git, Jenkins, or similar tools
• Expertise in Data Modelling (conceptualization to optimization) with advanced SQL and ideally DBT
• Hands-on experience in batch and real-time data integration, including performance assessment and fine-tuning
• Engineering skills for acquiring, ingesting, cleansing, integrating, and structuring massive data volumes from multiple sources
• Agile cross-functional team experience.

Additional Information

This is your opportunity to shape our game-changing journey and be part of something truly special! And to top it off, here are some perks to life at esure…

• A competitive salary that recognises your skills and potential
• A bonus scheme that celebrates your contribution to esure’s success
• Discounts on our insurance products, for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave, plus 8 flex days to be taken as and when suits you
• Benefits just for you: our hub – My Benefits Box – is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
• Grow your career with us: whatever your goals, we’ll support you with hands-on training, mentoring, a LinkedIn Learning licence, access to our exclusive Academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources from the likes of Women in Data and Women in Tech.
• Join our communities: our networks give you the chance to connect, learn and share with like-minded colleagues across the business – for work and play. So, it’s no surprise our people consistently rate ‘making friends at work’ one of the highest scorers in our colleague engagement survey
• More flexibility for you: we’re a proud supporter of the ABI’s Make Flexible Work campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need, whether it’s part time, job sharing, or compressed hours. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
• Live a healthy lifestyle: we offer lots of support, so you feel like the best version of yourself – like specialist advice through our employee assistance programme, wellbeing classes, access to the My Health Advantage app, our Big Team Challenge, and learning sessions on topics like menopause.
• A helping hand to do your bit for a greener and safer world: driving good in the world couldn’t be more important to us. That’s why we encourage colleagues to use volunteering days to support their local communities and have lots of initiatives to help you live a greener lifestyle.
• Everyday appreciation: praise from your colleagues means the world! Our social recognition tool makes it easy to give colleagues the praise they deserve, and you could even be shortlisted for a company-wide ACE Award.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.