Data Engineer

Company Description

At StepStone Group, we help everyone get the job that best fits their life. Whether it is the next step in their career, or a job to pay the bills – we exist to match lifestyles with livelihoods.  

We play our part by giving people everything they need to find the right job for them in that moment; making jobs work for more people, whatever they do, and however they choose to do it. 

This role can be based in Düsseldorf or London.

We also have a hybrid approach! Work from home 2 days and 3 days at the office!

We need a Data Engineer to join our Tribe and work with one of our scrum teams to help us keep our customers happy, solve the challenges of data warehousing in a rapidly growing platform whilst in an evolving marketplace. For us, teamwork is everything. We listen to each other, we adapt and we value honest feedback to help us keep on improving.

We are making significant investment in business intelligence and data warehousing at scale and we will invest in you. There is a great opportunity to gain valuable experience and progress your career, using newer technologies and defining best practices to deliver a self-service BI model for the wider organisation.

Job Description

• Start your day with a stand up, then spin up your environment and bham, you’re ready to go
• Pair with your team mates, further develop a new data feed and enjoy the data flowing in seamlessly
• Realise a team member has left their laptop unlocked and turn their screen upside down ctrl+alt+? (unwritten rule – don’t do this to your pairing partner)
• Review a pull request and deploy to production through your CI pipeline – pat yourself on the back
• Have a coffee
• Come across a show stopper, figure out as a team what to do, run some whiteboard design sessions (realising you’ve used a permanent marker, you quickly leave the room)
• Design and experiment in your team retro on the roof terrace
• Mingle with peeps from other tribes at Innovation day demos with beers and snacks

Qualifications

Skills / Tech Stack / Tools:

• Data Warehousing, Data Modelling, Database Design, ETL
• AWS Redshift, SQL Server, Power BI
• Cloud/DevOps – AWS, Docker, Terraform
• Bitbucket, Bamboo, Team City, Octopus CI/CD deploy pipeline
• Agile, pair programming, code reviews
• Knowledge of one development language (Python, C#, Java), Data Lakes
• Knowledge of Crawlers, Event Sourcing and Data Mesh is a plus

What we’d like from you:

• Bring your whole self to work
• Super interested in all things technical
• Commitment to high quality, maintainable code
• Happy to collaborate with a wide group of stakeholders
• Keen to coach and mentor others

Additional Information

Benefits and Rewards:

What we offer:  

• Holiday - 29 days holiday a year, plus public holidays.  In addition, you can buy or sell up to 3 days each year.  
• Charity - 2 additional days off every year to volunteer to charitable causes. You can also donate tax-free to a registered charity, and The Stepstone Group will match your contribution up to a value of £10 per month. 
• In house barista – Brewed fresh and free of charge. We also have fresh fruit and plenty of snacks.  
• Medical – Access to digital GP and well-being services. 
• Pension Scheme - We offer a competitive pension scheme to help you plan for the future 
• Family Leave - We understand that laying the foundations for a smooth start to family leave will also make for an easier transition back to the workplace and subject to qualifying criteria, the benefits under the Company Family schemes are more generous than required under current legislation. 

When you apply for a role with us you will be asked to complete an equal opportunities questionnaire. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reach out to one of the team.