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About the Role
Join the Penguin Data Engineering team and work closely with DK (Dorling Kindersley) to shape and improve how data is accessed, understood, and used across both businesses. You will be part of the PRH Data Centre of Excellence, a collaborative team setting shared standards and providing support.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain reliable, secure, and reusable data pipelines, models, and automation for DK.
- Make trusted data available for reporting, analytics, and operational workflows.
- Build and manage data pipelines for reliable data movement between systems.
- Maintain DK’s Snowflake data environment, including data models, schemas, performance, and data quality controls.
- Integrate data from various internal and external sources, ensuring security, accessibility, and alignment with PRH data standards.
- Automate manual data and reporting processes using cloud tools, GitHub, and other services.
- Manage CI/CD processes for data solutions, ensuring proper testing, documentation, and safe environment transitions.
- Support BI and reporting needs, collaborating with analysts and stakeholders on dashboards, reports, and tools like Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.
- Create clear documentation, including technical notes, data definitions, and service transition materials.
- Support testing, incident resolution, and performance monitoring for DK data solutions.
- Lead technical conversations and reviews, sharing best practices in data engineering, automation, data modelling, and BI.
- Continuously improve DK’s data infrastructure by staying current with tools and identifying better working methods.
- Collaborate with Data Governance to ensure monitoring, alerting, and metadata are up-to-date.
Requirements
- Strong experience in data engineering, business intelligence development, or data platform engineering with a proven track record of designing, building, and supporting scalable data integration solutions.
- Strong knowledge of Snowflake and other cloud data platforms, including schema design, data modelling, secure access, and performance management.
- Excellent SQL skills, ideally within Snowflake, including data extraction, transformation, analysis, performance optimisation, and working with large, structured datasets.
- Strong Python skills for data processing, automation, and integration, with the ability to build maintainable, well-documented solutions.
- Practical experience building and managing data pipelines using ETL or ELT frameworks, with knowledge of tools such as dbt, Fivetran, or similar.
- Understanding of BI data modelling and reporting tools, such as Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, or Looker, including structuring data for reporting and self-service analytics.
- Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand requirements, translate business needs into data solutions, and support accurate data use.
- Good understanding of data governance, data quality, privacy, and compliance considerations, with an appreciation for their application to reliable and responsible data use.
- Familiarity with cloud services, deployment practices, or CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions or similar.
- Collaborative and inclusive approach, able to build trusted relationships across teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to take ownership of problems and follow through to delivery, balancing pace with quality, security, and long-term maintainability.
- Some experience mentoring colleagues, contributing to technical design discussions, or reviewing the work of other data professionals is beneficial.
Skills
- Snowflake
- Python
- SQL
- dbt
- Fivetran
- Power BI
- Microsoft Fabric
- GitHub
- Cloud services
- ETL
- ELT
- CI/CD
- Data governance
- Data quality
- Data modelling
- BI data modelling
- Reporting tools
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- £60,000-£75,000
Benefits
- Generous bonus scheme
About the Company
- Penguin believes in the power of authenticity and human creativity.
- We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives.
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 encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing [email protected].
- Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable with, for us to support your request.