Position
Data Engineer – Salary £43,000 to £48,000 DOE. Full‑time, 35 hours per week, Permanent, Hybrid (Folkestone).
About the role
We’re looking for a hands‑on Data Engineer to join our growing team working across our Single Customer View (SCV) and Snowflake Data Platform. The role involves sourcing, structuring, and governing data to support analytic users, embedding governance controls, and collaborating across business units.
Role Responsibilities
* Consult with the business to identify data sources, usage requirements, and refresh rates to gather build requirements.
* Develop and support the SCV using Snowflake, data lake technologies, and related tooling.
* Collaborate within cross‑functional squads to design and build data platform components.
* Ensure development adheres to Data Governance and InfoSec standards.
* Test, monitor and resolve issues across data flows and ingestion routines.
* Produce clear documentation for data ingestion and transformation processes.
* Contribute to CI/CD design and support release coordination, understanding dependencies.
* Advise on and contribute to project delivery planning for data engineering initiatives.
* Promote adoption of the SCV platform and identify opportunities to optimise and automate processes.
* Communicate progress, risks and issues effectively with stakeholders and technical teams.
Ideal Candidate
You will already have 1–2 years’ experience as a Data Engineer, strong hands‑on experience in T‑SQL, and experience with Snowflake or a similar cloud‑based data platform. In addition you:
* Have practical experience in data ingestion, processing and storage.
* Be familiar with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps (or similar).
* Have experience using workflow/orchestration tools such as Talend (or equivalent).
* Have exposure to Python for data engineering tasks.
* Can challenge constructively, ask the right questions, and translate business requirements into effective data solutions.
* Communicate well, present technical material, and thrive in a fast‑paced agile environment.
Saga Values
Make it Happen, Do the Right Thing, Customer First, Excellence Every Day, Our People Make Us Special.
Benefits
* 25 days holiday + bank holidays (option to purchase 5 extra days).
* Matched pension scheme up to 10%.
* Performance related annual bonus – up to 5%.
* Life assurance policy on joining, 4 × salary.
* Wellbeing programme.
* Colleague discounts on cruises, holidays, insurance and retail offers.
* Enhanced maternity and paternity leave, grandparents leave.
* Income protection.
* Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform.
About the Company
Over the past 75 years Saga has been the UK’s specialist provider of products and services for people aged over 50. Our product portfolio includes cruises, holidays, insurance, personal finance and Saga Magazine.
We are committed to an inclusive culture that welcomes all colleagues to bring their authentic selves, and we are signatories of the Age‑Friendly Employer Pledge and the Disability Confident Employer initiative. We provide a fair and accessible recruitment process and communicate throughout your applicant journey.
Recruitment Policy
Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters or any other company location.
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