Data Engineer – Core systems

Role Overview

Join the Core Systems team to drive innovation across the business by optimising development, building data systems, and continuously improving iwoca products. The team follows Agile-inspired processes, using continuous integration and delivery, so that features go live in days or weeks, not months or years.

What You Will Do

Develop, construct, test and maintain ETL/ELT infrastructure, implement robust data testing frameworks in dbt, enable product teams to self-serve data, and influence the monitoring, observability, and reliability strategy for the data warehouse.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The successful candidate will identify opportunities to improve data processes, enable self-service access across the organisation, and design the governance frameworks and guardrails required to ensure data quality, security, and consistency.

Requirements

• Experience in implementing reliable and performant ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) for dbt project management
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for analytics workflows
• Experience with programming languages such as Python
• Familiarity with data governance practices and frameworks
• Professional experience in analytics engineering / data analytics
• Solid understanding of SQL with hands on experience with dbt and Snowflake

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership
• A private GP service (separate from Vitality) for you, your partner, and your dependents
• 25 days’ holiday per year, an extra day off for your birthday, the option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leave, and unlimited unpaid leave
• A one-month, fully paid sabbatical after four years
• Instant access to external counselling and therapy sessions for team members that need emotional or mental health support
• 3% Pension contributions on total earnings
• An employee equity incentive scheme
• Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you save money
• Electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme
• Two company retreats a year
• A learning and development budget for everyone
• Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers
• Access to learning platforms like Treehouse