Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer at Oodle Car Finance.
We are seeking a Senior data engineer to help us build, test and maintain our data platform which serves the critical needs of the business. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our data stack including data pipelines and data warehouse for our analytics, data science, operations and marketing teams. We are in the process of completing our migration to a new Data Warehouse based on Snowflake using the Data Vault architecture. We have exciting plans for using our data to give our customers greater value and our business even more insights.
The Team
The Data Engineering team is responsible for all aspects of data management, developing and refining cloud native warehouse, interfaces from a variety of internal and external sources, building tools and processes for data quality assurance and presenting data to whoever needs, whenever they want and in whatever format it is required.
The data engineering team is a central team that works closely with your peer data teams in analytics and reporting, data science and the wider business to understand and service their data needs, ensuring a single source of truth is maintained. The team operates with a collaborative, autonomous and flat structure.
What youll be doing:

Work with data science, credit risk and analytics teams to understand their data needs and recommend reliable and efficient solutions to service these needs
Develop, test, and maintain data pipelines into and out of cloud data warehouse
Collaborate with other teams where data is sourced to understand and correctly model what comes in
Efficiently manage processing of large semi-structured data sources and curate data to service data science modelling use cases
Evaluate and implement tools to streamline process of developing, collaborating, and executing data science models in a safe, efficient, and reliable way
Work with wider data engineering function to ensure engineering frameworks and best practices are developed, maintained, and strictly adhered to
Track overall performance and stability of the data platform, automating and improving performance of data models, data pipelines and data quality rules
Define and enhance data management and governance tools and capabilities across the data engineering function

Previous Experience in a Data Engineering role
Strong SQL and Python development skills
Hands-on experience working with cloud-based data warehousing technologies, specifically Redshift, BigQuery or Snowflake
DBT Core
Strong implementation experience
Hands on experience with AWS cloud services and Data Ops CI/CD tools and processes e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, etc
Knowledge of tools like FiveTran and AirFlow
Ability to communicate effectively to both technical as well as non-technical audiences
Analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
High levels of energy, enthusiasm, and passion to acquire new skills and succeed in a dynamic environment

Desirable Experience:

FinTech/Finance experience
Snowflake
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform

Video Interview (1 hour) Competency and Technical interview with the hiring manager and a member of the team
Team Interview (45 mins)
Final Interview (30 mins) with the Head of Engineering

Our Values
Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodlers mind when making business decisions.

Embrace being human empathy and diversity make us stronger
Strive for awesome its awesome when we do better every day
Everyones a builder were in this together and we win as a team
Bravely honest were honest with ourselves and everyone else
Think customer theyre at the heart of everything we do

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram.
Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our Oodlers who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.
Wed love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process please email careers@oodlefinance.com

Salary 65,000 - 85,000
Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme
Monday Friday (37.5h pw)
Our perks

25 days holidays (rising to 28 days) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love.
Remote or Hybrid working
Mental health care 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme).
Paid sick leave enhanced sick pay of up to 20 full days in a rolling 12-month period.
Enhanced family leave we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
Healthcare plan free healthcare via Vitality for you and your family. Youll receive money back on health appointments e.g. dental, optical and more.
Pension Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future.
Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit.
Employee discounts discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops.
1 day volunteer day per year an opportunity to give back to the community each year.

Oodle who are we?
Our mission is to be the UKs simplest way to find and finance a great value used car. We want to put car buyers back in control and make the car buying experience as simple, straightforward, and joyful as possible as car buyers deserve oodles of car buying confidence!
We are a team of 450 people located in Manchester, Oxford and London. Over the past 6 years, weve supported 10,000s of customers on their car buying journey and know 2023 is shaping up to be another exciting year!