Junior Data Engineer

Curve is a next-gen insights, analytics and technology consultancy that leverages digital consumer data and advanced technology to help businesses unlock consumer opportunities. Digital consumer data is powerful; it's big, it's real, and it's always updating. We use a combination of in-house technology and bespoke solutions, powered by AI, to transform data from sources such as Social, Reviews, Search, and broader marketing and sales data. These reveal fresh insights for our clients; helping them to build better products and brands, to deliver effective marketing to consumers.

Our software, machine learning and AI are key to how we deliver impact, centred on:

• Natural Language Processing, GPT & other LLMs: unearthing trends, themes and other patterns from large text-based data sets, and deploying state-of-the-art AI to automate and empower consumer facing businesses and their insights & analytics functions
• Marketing Data Science & Personalisation: using first party consumer data to understand each client's consumer base, building personalisation and other machine learning models to better engage with and excite consumers
• Data Engineering & Data Architecture: data engineering across a variety of tools to integrate these leading technologies into optimised and efficient data models and ecosystems, feeding into best-in-class analytics dashboards, marketing activation and front-end platforms
• Software Engineering: full stack expertise to build, maintain and support internal and externally facing Software & Data as a Service solutions, in AWS, that accelerate delivery and unlock deeper insights for our clients

As a start-up, we can move faster than most companies and do things differently. We have experienced rapid growth so far and we’re looking for a Junior Data Engineer to join our growing team.

About the role

We’re looking for a great Junior Data Engineer to join our growing team. You’ll play a crucial role in designing, building and productionising innovative data pipelines, in the cloud, from scratch. You’ll work on a mix of small analytics proof of concepts and larger projects, both of which pushing the boundaries of what we can do with data; finding and using novel data sources and APIs, and enriching them with leading analytics, data science and AI methods.

Your role will be twofold. You’ll be working directly with our London-based client-base, as well as helping to shape the future of our fast-growing start-up. We’ll let you challenge yourself, from your core of data engineering to support our data science and dashboard visualisation work, to grow your cloud architecture and engineering knowledge, and to understand the business and strategic impact of your great engineering work – to whatever extent suits you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build innovative data solutions
• Support the development and rollout of an industry first global analytics programme
• Develop and deploy automated code pipelines, from data acquisition through cleaning and preparing data for modelling, through to visualisation
• Help to productionise machine learning models
• Work closely with a great programme team - project lead, data scientists and analysts – and interface with client technology counterparts
• Identify ways to improve data reliability, processing efficiency and quality of our data output
• Deploy pipelines in cloud environments and develop as a cloud technologist, as our world becomes increasingly reliant on cloud technologies
• Produce detailed documentation and champion code quality
• Interrogate rich data sources such as social, search, surveys, reviews, clickstream, sales, connected devices and beyond
• Identify and explore opportunities to acquire new data sources that deliver innovative perspectives to our clients

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in an applicable field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Maths or similar Science or Engineering discipline
• Strong python and other programming skills (Java and/or Scala desirable)
• Strong SQL background
• Some exposure to big data technologies (hadoop, spark, presto, etc.)

Nice to have or excited to learn:

• Some experience designing, building and maintaining SQL databases (and/or NoSQL)
• Some experience with designing efficient physical data models/schemas and developing ETL/ELT scripts
• Some experience developing data solutions in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS or GCP – Azure Databricks experience a bonus

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive salary, that reflects your talent and expertise in accordance with industry standards.
• Annual Leave: 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays.
• Annual Bonus: Our Annual Bonus is based on company and individual performance.
• Generous Pension: You can expect to receive a generous 8% employers’ pension contribution.
• Health and Wellbeing: Access our Cycle to Work Scheme and prioritise your health with our comprehensive AXA Private Healthcare Plan and 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme. You will also be assigned a dedicated People Manager for confidential discussions about your work life.
• Hybrid Working: Split your time between working remotely and from our London HQ.
• Growth and Development: Development is at the heart of everything we do. You will be able to create a Personalised Growth Plan and get involved in our internal trainings. You will also get a yearly individual learning budget for training, books, courses, certifications, and conferences.

We’re looking for candidates who really want to make an impact. Join us! Send us your CV and a brief covering letter in your application about why you would be a good fit for the role.

Curve is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, then please don’t hesitate to let us know.