Associate Data Engineer

About Hiscox

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Job Summary

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox as a member of the Hiscox US IT Team Data Engineering practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with business stakeholders and our delivery team to understand high value business problems that can be solved through the application of data processing and analytical systems.
• Developing, expanding and evolving our data platform and transformation pipelines.
• Understanding business requirements and helping refine into development tasks and estimate their complexity.
• Researching, evaluating and adopting new technologies with a right tool for the job mentality.
• Focusing on both speed of delivery and quality, ensuring solutions are appropriate and not too complex or over-engineered.
• Quick progression of projects from proof-of-concept to post-production stage.
• Communicating and presenting ideas to colleagues in all parts of the wider tech team.
• Participating in code reviews for the data engineering practice.
• Adopting a growth mindset to continuously improve skills and finding the right niche in the team.

Requirements

• Knowledge of, or ability to rapidly adopt core languages for data engineering – SQL and/or Python.
• Experience working using a modern DevOps approach.
• A robust understanding of core data engineering topics – ETL vs ELT, structured and unstructured data and data quality.
• Ability to contribute to all aspects of a solution – design, infrastructure, development, testing and maintenance.
• Effective collaboration with technical and non-technical team members through agile ceremonies.
• An understanding of cloud technology and how to build cloud-native solutions.
• Track record of taking initiative and delivering projects end-to-end.
• Immense curiosity, high energy and desire to go the extra mile to make a difference.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with additional technologies, data science knowledge or a business background are all valued.