Senior Data Engineer at Direct Line Group

  • UK Only
  • Direct Line Group
Job Description:

Ways of Working

Here at Direct Line Group, we recognise the importance of flexibility, not only in our personal lives but also in the way we work. Our mixed model way of working offers a ‘best of both worlds’ approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone.

How much you’ll be in the office depends on your role, and we’ll consider the flexible working options that work best for you. You can find out more about our flexible working approach or please get in touch with the team to discuss.

What we’re looking for:

  • Direct Line Group is going through an exciting transformation to be the top tier data driven business in the UK’s general insurance market.

  • To achieve this, we are growing our Data Enabling Tribe which working closely with the business to build a new large-scale, cloud hosted, secure, and consolidated data and analytics platform to enable our users to interact with all their data from a single trusted platform.

  • The platform uses the economics of big data, cloud elasticity, Machine Learning (ML)/Artificial Intelligence (AI) automation and permissioned data sharing to turn information into business insights and address business and operational challenges.

  • Our Data/Platform engineers are accountable for the development and operations of the Data Platform to drive maximum value from data for business users and in line with DLG best practices.

  • In terms of Tech Stack, there are many technologies that make us tick, some of which include; AWS, Informatica/ETL Frameworks, Jenkins/Bamboo/AWS Code, Ansible/Puppet/Chef,CloudFormation/Terraform, Python, Java, Scala, AWS Cloud Storage, Jira, Confluence, Tableau and many more.

Who you’ll be working with:

You will work as part of a multi-functional agile delivery team, including analysts, architects, platform engineers, machine learning engineers, and testers. You will have the opportunity to work on sophisticated problems, implementing high performance solutions that will run on top of our cloud based big data platform

What you’ll be doing:

  • Work as part of the Data Engineering team to uphold and evolve common standards and collaborate to ensure that our data solutions are complimentary and not duplicative.
  • Build and maintain robust automated pipelines to support data solutions across BI and analytics use cases.
  • Collaborate with other technology teams to ingest, transform and load data from multiple data sources, structured and un-structured data.
  • Work closely with data scientists and data analysts to implement and productionize data models.
  • Build patterns, common ways of working, and standardised data pipelines for DLG to - ensure consistency across the organisation.
  • Life at DLG
  • Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and we’re committed to making DLG a truly inclusive place to work.
  • We recognise and embrace that people work in different ways and we’ll always adapt as much as possible so you have the best and most comfortable working environment that we can offer. We know you’re more than a CV, and the things that make you, you, can bring real potential to DLG.

If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Company Benefits

  • Company discretional bonus
  • Pension 9% of your base salary
  • Attractive holiday entitlement – 25 days (as well as being able to buy/sell days)
  • Income Protection
  • Life assurance
  • Discount off our Home, Motor and Pet insurance with Direct Line.
  • Free Travel insurance
  • Free breakdown cover
  • Flexible rewards including Dental, Health, Life insurance, income protection, - critical illness insurance, personal accident insurance

Interview Process

  • Informal Chat
  • Tech Test
  • Video Interview
  • Offer

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