Company When it comes to innovation and achievement there are few organisations with a better track record. With almost 300 aircraft flying over 1,000 routes to more than 32 countries, we’re the UK’s largest airline, the fourth largest in Europe and the tenth largest in the world. With a big investment into Databricks, and with a large amount of interesting data, this is the chance for you to come and be part of an exciting transformation in the way we store, analyse and use data in a fast paced organisation.
You will join as a Senior Platform Data Engineer providing technical leadership to the Data Engineering team. You will work closely with our Data Scientists and business stakeholders to ensure value is delivered through our solutions.
Develop robust, scalable data pipelines to serve the easyJet analyst and data science community.
Highly competent hands-on experience with relevant Data Engineering technologies, such as Databricks, Spark, Spark API, Python, SQL Server, Scala.
Work with data scientists, machine learning engineers and DevOps engineers to develop, develop and deploy machine learning models and algorithms aimed at addressing specific business challenges and opportunities.
Coach and mentor the team (including contractors) to improve development standards.
Build a documentation library and data catalogue for developed code/products.
Oversight of project deliverables and code quality going into each release.
Able to use historical experiences to help with future innovations.
Passionate about data; enjoy being hands-on and learning about new technologies, particularly in the data field.
able to take general guidance and the overarching data strategy and identify practical steps to take.
Significant experience designing and building data solutions on a cloud based, big data distributed system.
Hands-on software development experience with Python and experience with modern software development and release engineering practices (e.g. TDD, CI/CD), and software deployment automation with GitHub actions or Azure DevOps.
Experience in testing automation of data transformation pipelines, using frameworks like Pytest or dbt Unit Test.
Comfortable writing efficient SQL and debugging.
Data warehouse operations and tunning experience in schema evolution, indexing, partitioning.
Understanding of ML development workflow and knowledge of when and how to use dedicated hardware.
Significant experience with Apache Spark or any other distributed data programming frameworks (e.g. Familiarity with Databricks as a data and AI platform or the Lakehouse Architecture.
Experience with data quality and/or and data lineage frameworks like Great Expectations, dbt data quality, OpenLineage or Marquez, and data drift detection and alerting.
Understanding of Data Management principles (security and data privacy) and how they can be applied to Data Engineering processes/solutions (e.g. access management, data privacy, handling of sensitive data (e.g. Experience in event-driven architecture, ingesting data in real time in a commercial production environment with Spark Streaming, Kafka, DLT or Beam.
Understanding of the challenges faced in the design and development of a streaming data pipeline and the different options for processing unbounded data (pubsub, message queues, event streaming etc)
Understanding of the most commonly used Data Science and Machine Learning models, libraries and frameworks.
Tableau, PowerBI, ThoughtSpot)
Worked within the AWS cloud ecosystem.
Experience of building a data transformation framework with dbt.
Competitive base salary
~ Up to 20% bonus
~25 days holiday
~ BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
~7% pension
~ Life Insurance
~ Work Away Scheme
~ Flexible benefits package
~ Excellent staff travel benefits
At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.
It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all.