Data Engineer

Role Summary:

We are seeking a passionate and detail-oriented Data Engineer to join our Digital Tech & Data team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the data pipelines that support our digital ecosystem — from ingesting raw data across multiple digital touchpoints to delivering clean, robust data that business teams can trust and act on.

You will bring engineering rigour to data — treating pipelines, models, and infrastructure as production-grade software — while staying closely connected to the digital business context your work enables.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain production-grade data pipelines in Airflow that ingest data from digital touchpoints into Snowflake.

  • Develop modular, tested, and well-documented dbt models that transform raw data into reliable, business-ready datasets — owning the full lifecycle from source definition to exposure.

  • Provision and manage cloud data infrastructure (Snowflake objects, Airflow environments, supporting GCP resources) through Terraform, with everything version-controlled and peer-reviewed.

  • Implement and uphold data quality, observability, and testing standards across pipelines

  • Tune Snowflake performance and manage warehouse cost — clustering, query profiling, resource monitors and treat cost as a first-class engineering concern.

  • Implement pipelines to platform standards — branching strategy, CI/CD for dbt and Airflow, code review norms, documentation, naming conventions

Required Qualifications:

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.

Experience:

  • 2–3 years of hands-on experience in a data engineering or analytics engineering role, ideally within a digital or e-commerce environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proven experience building and maintaining production-grade data pipelines using Apache Airflow.

  • Strong working knowledge of Snowflake, including data modelling, performance tuning, clustering, and warehouse cost management.

  • Demonstrated experience developing dbt projects — writing modular, tested, and well-documented transformation logic.

  • Practical experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud data infrastructure in a repeatable, version-controlled manner.

  • Proficiency in Python for writing data pipelines, custom operators, and utility tooling.

  • Strong SQL skills with the ability to write and optimise complex queries across large datasets.

  • Fluency in driving an AI coding tool across pipeline codebase: scoping changes, providing the right files as context.

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