Data Engineer

About Us

Data and analytics excellence at Dyson is delivered by a diverse and collaborative global community, at the heart of that community is a hub team that enables all others: In Dyson’s Data Analytics team, there has been significant investment into cloud technologies and tools; combined with an expansive scope and no shortage of ambition and momentum, Dyson Data Analytics team is recognised throughout the organisation to the highest level as critical to all of Dyson's strategic objectives.

Dyson IT are mid-transformation. Our aim, to create robust IT architecture, to manage data effectively and efficiently and continue to grow our world-class team. A team who is strategic, enabling business acceleration, growth and success.

We have end to end accountability for the design, delivery and support of all business systems enabling Dysons global commercial, operational and enterprise business process in 82 markets. The team is arranged into investment areas including Commercial & Connectivity, Retail, Supply Chain & Manufacturing, Product Development, Corporate – and many others.

We're committed to our campus culture and don’t look to offer a regular hybrid working arrangement. This helps us to achieve the spirit of Dyson – collaboration, creativity, and inventiveness – in our inspiring, social, and dynamic workspaces.

About the Role

As the ‘hub’ team delivering the data, technology and community provision enabling Dyson’s global data and analytics capabilities, Dyson Data Analytics team have end-to-end responsibility for data from foundations (DQ, MDM) to management (data platforms, integrations), to value realisation (analytics enablement and delivery).

Dyson Data and Analytics team is a multi-disciplinary, global team providing round-the-clock development and operations - including product and project management, community enablement, governance, data architecture, data engineering, data science, and analytics expertise.

Involved with every aspect of Dyson’s global business - from finance to product development, manufacturing to owner experience – the team is seeking to deliver solutions generating impressive and tangible business value.

At Dyson, Data Engineers are Software Engineers specialising in building data intensive applications.

You will be responsible for:

• Deliver Data Engineering excellence in the end-to-end delivery of complex data engineering projects and programmes for Dyson

• Reviewing technical designs and providing feedback

• Designing and building end-to-end data solutions for analytics

• Migrating existing pipelines onto the platform

• Involve in deployment, testing activities with hands on engineering and automation experience including CI/CD/CD and DataOps mindset

• Adapting quickly to change in requirements and be willing to work with different technologies if required

• Develop and maintain data pipelines in a Backend/Distributed Data Systems team while remaining hands-on is very important

• Strengthening data quality and reliability

• Improving data lineage and governance

• Progressing standards and best practices for the platform and operational excellence

• Maintaining our documentation culture

The ideal candidate will

• Write clean code that can be easily understood by others

• Be able to understand and improve legacy code

• Identify and build abstractions and tools to solve recurring challenge

• Apply best practices and ways of working among our global data engineering team

• Provide constructive feedback through PRs and pairing

• Seek to close gaps in documentation

Our Tech Stack 

Our modern data stack constantly evolves over time as it strives for best-in-class technical capabilities, scalability and efficiency. We don’t require applicants to have experience with all these technologies, but are always keen to learn and maximise best use of each and as a whole

• Git for source control management

• Terragrunt for infrastructure as code

• GCP for infrastructure

• BigQuery for data warehousing

• Apache Beam and Python for ELT (Extract Load Transform)

• Airflow for orchestration

• dbt (SQL) for data modelling

• Datadog for monitoring

• Fivetran

About you

• You feel strongly about data and want to empower the organisation with it 

• You seek technical excellence and is self-driven and motivated

• You want to build robust, scalable and reliable software and solutions

• You have experience with SQL and strong programming skills in a modern language (Python/Kotlin/Java/Scala)

• You are comfortable writing production grade software that solves problems often presented with ambiguity

• You proactively identify challenges and opportunities; seeking improvement as a team.

Benefits

Benefits

Financial:

•  Performance related bonus

• Company paid Life Assurance

• Discounts on Dyson machines

•  Competitive pension scheme

• Purchase additional holidays 

Lifestyle:

• 27 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays

• Free bus travel to and from Malmesbury campus from Bristol, Chippenham and Swindon

• On-site parking

• Endless free coffee and tea, and a free lunch 

• Free on-site hair salon

• On-site lifestyle Assist

• Electric vehicle scheme 

Health:

• Private Medical insurance for all employees

• Employee Assistance Program for employee and dependents

• Digital GP and prescription service

• Fertility treatment support

• On-site gym and sports centre

• On-site wellbeing centre

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.