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About the Role
This role will play a key part in the continued development of our new end-to-end cloud data platform, helping to ensure that our data architecture and platform strategy remain closely aligned with the needs of the business and the value we want to create. Working closely with the Product Manager, Data Platform and Lead Data Engineer, you’ll use your data management and architecture expertise to design robust, scalable data foundations and structures that support clearly defined business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Design robust, scalable data pipelines and architecture to bring together internal and external data sources within our cloud data platform.
- Develop the architecture and migration approach for moving legacy data into Snowflake, whilst supporting appropriate data lake and transformed data layers.
- Embed security, quality, performance and scalability into the design of our data environments, ensuring they can be used confidently by analysts and decision makers.
- Ensure the data architecture supports our Power BI reporting and analytics capability, as well as wider analytical and business intelligence needs.
- Set the technical direction for data architecture, ensuring it remains aligned with our wider data strategy, platform roadmap and business priorities.
- Support strong data governance by ensuring data structures align with agreed policies, are appropriately catalogued and enable secure and compliant use of first and third-party data.
- Partner with data science and analytics teams to design environments and structures that support advanced analytics, machine learning and AI use cases.
- Stay connected to developments across the data industry, identifying opportunities to improve the platform, increase efficiency and support new business outcomes.
Requirements
- Extensive experience architecting cloud-based data engineering, BI and data science solutions.
- Experience with dbt for transforming, modelling, testing and documenting data within a modern data platform.
- Strong experience designing scalable data models and schemas for a range of structured and unstructured data, including transactional, web analytics, CRM and marketing data.
- Expert knowledge of data modelling and data structures, with the ability to select the right approach for different business and technical use cases.
- Very strong SQL skills, alongside technical experience of database technologies including PostgreSQL, SQL Server and Data Vault.
- Experience designing both code-based and tool-based solutions for data ingestion and storage, with the judgement to understand when each approach offers the greatest benefit.
- Experience migrating and refactoring legacy data solutions and physical environments into cloud-based platforms, including identifying and managing the challenges and opportunities involved.
- Experience designing data structures that enable the appropriate use of first and third-party data whilst supporting GDPR requirements.
- The ability to work closely with engineering teams to design and build complex data environments, proactively addressing data issues as they arise.
- Strong influencing and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical colleagues, peers and business stakeholders.
- An inclusive and collaborative approach, with an appreciation of diverse perspectives and ways of working.
- Experience working within the media sector or a similarly complex organisation.
- Experience with AWS Functions and related cloud technologies.
Skills
- Data management
- Data architecture
- Cloud data platform
- Data engineering
- BI
- Data science
- dbt
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- Data Vault
- Data ingestion
- Data storage
- GDPR
- Power BI
- Machine learning
- AI
- AWS Functions
Location
- Embassy Gardens, London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- £60,000 - £65,000 yearly
Benefits
- Generous bonus scheme
About the Company
- The Technology team provides expertise and effective solutions to Penguin Random House. We integrate flexibility and agility which supports our consistent way of working. We set ourselves up for success by holding ourselves accountable and welcoming change. Each member of the Technology team brings skill and initiative to their role; we take personal ownership within a one team culture, working collaboratively to meet expectations from our stakeholders who trust us to deliver.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.
- We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives, so please be yourself!