Data Engineer

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.  

 We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of  what we do:  

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner  

• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business  

• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK  

• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW  

• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW  

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!.  

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining scalable data pipelines and data platform architecture. The role involves working with analysts, technical teams and stakeholders to ensure data is accessible, reliable and optimised for analytics and reporting.

Job Description

• Code new Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics developments and/or enhancements in line with technical design and standards.
• Provide technical support and data expertise to business users of BI and Analytics systems.
• Write SQL queries and scripts to manage data and Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) jobs.
• Assist in migration of on-prem BI and analytics workloads to GCP BigQuery platform.
• Use AI-assisted development as required.
• Create and update functional design, specifications and/or user stories.
• Adhere to code quality, data, and unit testing standards.
• Develop familiarity with processes in the overall domain of the team's area of work.
• Where technical challenges or blocks are identified within the team, ensure that team leads are made aware in a timely manner to support the management and triaging of delays or risks to the project.
• Work with project stakeholders as required.
• Feed into Revenue's project management activities as required in terms of tracking, risk management etc.
• Ensure that any assigned tasks in development and planning tools related to:
  • Project development tasks are updated i.e.
  • Updates to Jira requirements, work time logs, etc. for tracking purposes.
• Collaborate with testers, ensuring that information is shared and testers are kept up to date on expected functionality and timelines.
• Perform root cause analysis of issues and organise live incident tickets or bug tracking.
• Provide/propose fixes, as required, to resolve live issues.

Key Requirements/Skills required for this role: 

• Experience working with data using relational databases such as SQL and Ingres, and NoSQL frameworks such as Hadoop. 

• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 

• Analytical and problem‐solving skills. 

• Experience working in standards driven environments. 

• Excellent interpersonal skills 

• Experience working as part of a team on engagements with technologies and architectures similar to Revenue’s as outlined in Appendix 9 of RFT2024. 

• Experience interfacing with application development and technical colleagues and testers and team leads. 

• Experience working in coding languages as outlined in Appendix 9 of RFT2024 

• Knowledge/experience of project delivery methodologies, application development lifecycle, waterfall development model, agile development model and hybrid development model. 

• Familiarity with techniques for parsing and manipulating structured data formats, RDBMS, XML, JSON, text files, etc.  

• Agile Development Environment /Agile Methodology experience and Hybrid Methodology experience where the role demands it. 

Why Version 1?  

 At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.  

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits  

• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme  

• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance  

• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme  

• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies  

• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat  

• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.  

• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.  

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.     

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.  

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.  

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.  

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