Visualisation Engineer

Data & Analytics at Dyson

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.

With a ‘one-team’ approach, the global community is on a mission to:

• Evolve existing solutions to stay ahead
• Embed emerging solutions to capitalise on potential benefits
• Deliver conceptualised & future solutions to introduce net-new capability

The Team

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 visualisation, 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.

The Role

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

You will be responsible for:

• You will work with Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Data Architects as part of a squad to deliver incredible visual products to different business areas around the organisation.
• You will help respond to complex business questions beyond what business intelligence teams and low-code visualisation software is capable of today.
• You will engage with the business to shape and refine their questions, driving the frontend portion of diverse projects, and seizing the chance to work with and learn from your talented colleagues.
• You will work with experts to get advice and support on accessing data and productionising your products.
• Cutting edge approaches are key to keeping pace with Dyson’s innovative culture: you will be expected to stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies and methodologies.

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

• HTML5, D3.js and CSS
• 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

 You Should Apply If

• You drive and know-how to design, code and deliver powerful visual experiences through data.
• You write clean, efficient and test-driven JavaScript.
• You have strong HTML5 and CSS experience.
• You have extensive D3.js experience, along with its abstractions, or a comparable data visualisation library, and you can demonstrate this experience with a portfolio.
• You're comfortable with modern frontend frameworks like React or Vue.
• You have a talent and passion for visual design of products - you advocate for simplicity, can judge and remedy composition problems, and achieve satisfaction from pixel-perfection when it's demanded.
• You foster a collaborative atmosphere when you work and welcome constructive, well-delivered feedback from multiple stakeholders.
• You're comfortable using Git to collaborate with others and are familiar with CI/CD practices to develop and deliver software optimally.
• You are keen to fail fast, you like to rapidly prototype and ideally would have encountered interface design tools like Figma or Sketch in your career.
• You would like to have the possibility of being part of an emerging sophisticated visualization capability and contributing to the refinement of its way of working, including tool selection and standards, motivates and inspires you! #LI-DYSON
• 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 are comfortable writing production grade software that solves problems often presented with ambiguity
• You proactively identify challenges and opportunities, and seek to improve the team as a whole

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.