Data Engineer

We’re looking for a mid-level Data Engineer to design, build, and deploy high-quality data solutions across Chambers’ products, platforms, and applications, ensuring they meet data engineering best practices and quality standards.

In this role, you will champion engineering excellence and act as a subject matter expert for data-related projects, ensuring performance, scalability, and compliance with standards across the data engineering team.

This role is London-based, with a minimum of two days per week in the office.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Write clean and testable code using SQL and Python scripting languages, to enable our customer data products and business applications
• Build and manage data pipelines and notebooks, deploying code in a structured, trackable and safe manner
• Effectively create, optimise and maintain automated systems and processes across a given project(s) or technical domain
• Analyse, profile and plan work, aligned with project priorities
• Perform reviews of code, refactoring where necessary
• Deploy code in a structured, trackable and safe manner

Skills and Experience

• Strong proficiency in SQL, including Spark SQL and MS SQL Server, for querying, data manipulation, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Python

Person Specification

• A passionate data engineer with a history of driving his or her own technical and professional development.
• Able to clearly communicate with business and technology stakeholders.
• Attention to detail, focused on the finer details that make the difference.
• Delivery focussed, pragmatic and driven to get solutions live.
• Able to lead, providing thought leadership in the data domain.
• A proactive attitude. A self-starter who seeks out opportunities for yourself and your team.
• Awareness of industry and consumer trends
• Awareness of and the ability to manage business and technology expectations.
• Able to build strong personal relationships and trust.
• Able to sell ideas or visions. Influence and advise stakeholders at all levels
• Worked in the media, publishing, research, or a similar consumer focused industry (desirable)

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to fostering and promoting an inclusive professional environment for all of our employees, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion are integral values of Chambers and Partners and are key in our culture. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals regardless of age, disability, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. This commitment applies across all of our employment policies and practices, from recruiting and hiring to training and career development. We support our employees through our internal INSPIRE committee with Executive Sponsors, Chairs and Ambassadors throughout the business promoting knowledge and effecting change.

Applicants who identify as Disabled and/or Neurodiverse will be entitled to an interview if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the Job Description, additionally we will offer reasonable adjustments to those who require them. Some examples of reasonable adjustments are extra time in assessments, video interviews to combat travel-based issues and advice on expected interview topics/questions.