Data Engineer

Job Description

Who we are:

Nimble Approach are a rapidly growing Product & Tech consultancy who deliver value and enhance organisations. We pride ourselves on delivering great projects to multiple clients in different industries including Education, Government, Betting & Gaming, Utilities, Fintech, Manufacturing, Healthcare and more, so there is lots of opportunity to try out new things!
We believe in delivering value at pace and enhancing the organisations that we work with. This would not be possible without our amazing Nimble specialists who leave their mark everywhere they go. Our projects are diverse and different, just like our ways of working and our people. One of our key focusses is maintaining a strong culture of pragmatic, skilled, egoless people who collaborate to get things done and have lots of fun along the way.

We are committed to building scalable and re-usable data solutions to enable our clients to leverage their data for mission-critical business insights, driving decisions, and delivering value. To do this we employ a wide range of tools and technologies, recognising that the fields of Data Engineering, Data Visualisation and Data Science are swiftly evolving.
We currently have offices in Sheffield (our HQ), Leeds, Manchester & Bristol, however, a lot of us work remotely. We prefer for everyone to work however is best for them – all we ask is that people go into the office a few times a month and for team / client meetings when required.

About the role:

You can expect to get involved in a variety of projects in the cloud (AWS & Azure).
If you are on the Azure side, you will learn about and use data services such as Azure SQL, Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Warehouse, Databricks, Bicep & PowerBI.

About You:

You're an engineer at heart and enjoy the challenge of building reliable, efficient data applications systems, services and platforms.
You have experience building Kimball/Star-Schema Data Warehousing solutions.
You have experience developing Data Visualisations using tools like PowerBI or AWS Quicksight.
You have a good understanding of coding best practices and design patterns and experience with code and data versioning, dependency management, code quality and optimisation, error handling, logging, monitoring, validation and alerting
You have experience with using CI/CD tooling to analyse, build, test and deploy your code
You have a good understanding of design choices for data storage and data processing, with a particular focus on cloud data services.
You have experience in using parallel computing to process large datasets and to optimise computationally intensive tasks.
You have experience in programmatically deploying, scheduling and monitoring components in a workflow.
You have experience in writing complex queries against relational and non-relational data stores.

What we offer:

Private healthcare for you and a family member through Westfield Health
Flexible / Hybrid working
Enhanced Parental pay
Volunteer Days
Multiple Qualified Mental Health First Aider’s with regular 1-1’s available
£2,000 champion fund to spend as you wish on your own L&D each year
Referral scheme (£3,000) for every successful applicant
Lots of career progression opportunities
Laptop and any practicable equipment provided (either a Mac or Windows)
Regular Nimble Socials (both virtual & physical) including Escape rooms, Gin tasting, Lunches, Award nights, Bowling, Bouldering and more!
Relaxed and fun working environment
Engaging and collaborative communities to be involved in
A chance to be involved in company OKRs and shape how we will be in the future
25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
Company pension (with employer contributions)

If you think this sounds of interest, please apply with your CV.
(Unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship at this moment in time, so you must be UK based)