Job Description:
Data Engineer
Staines, London or Manchester
Permanent
Hybrid: up to 3 days WFH
From £52k DOE + fantastic benefits
37.5 hours per week
We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.
Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.
We make health happen
In this role you will design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and infrastructure that power Bupa Health Services’ data platforms and analytics capabilities.
You’ll work closely with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to transform raw data into structured, machine learning-ready formats, ensuring data quality, consistency and performance across systems.
How you’ll help us make health happen
1. Ingest data from a variety of sources and transform data from raw to organised
2. Develop data pipelines to facilitate Bupa Health Services data platforms
3. Participate in the design, creation and development of data engineering initiatives to transform the data and information landscape at Bupa Health Services
4. Collaborate with data scientists to design and implement reusable feature stores or feature pipelines
5. Design, optimise and maintain complex SQL queries, storied procedures and database schemas to support high-performance applications
6. Structuring data outputs to be ML-ready and monitoring data drift and schema changes that could impact model performance
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
7. Expert level SQL proficiency and Python fluency
8. Experience in Azure technologies and Snowflake
9. Proficient in handling data from diverse sources such as flat files, APIs and databases using ETL/ELT methodologies for efficient data processing
10. Creating data pipelines from scratch along the entire data chain: implementing data load patterns, error-handling and automated procedures
11. Solid understanding of modern EDW cloud tools, techniques, and best practices
12. Strategic and forward-thinking approach to data engineering, with the ability to envision and advocate for long-term, scalable solutions.
13. Experience with Power BI and ability to design and develop interactive dashboards
14. Proficiency in GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub for building scalable, cloud-native data pipelines
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.