Senior Data Engineer

About Allica Bank

Allica is the UKs fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.

Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.

Role Description

Data is a key asset to Allica and is deeply embedded in all our teams and products. With data we assist and work with Finance Operations Credit Risk Product and Management.

We are looking for ambitious and curious people who can help us understand our data better contribute to building robust data pipelines and help model our data so that stakeholders and team members can extract better insights from it.

You will be an integral part of the data engineering team building and developing the tooling and pipelines that form our data ingestion and modelling machine for our partnerships agreements.

Principal Accountabilities

• Understand our data landscape and architecture.

• Strong skillset in data modelling.

• Build and maintain data pipelines.

• Work with the team to engineer tools based on data requirements manage development from prototyping to productionising.

• Identify design and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes optimizing data delivery improve existing tools for greater scalability etc.

• Develop and maintain data and coding standards produce well-documented codes with robust testing and aligned with our data governance.

• Helping us implement a data-driven mindset in the company.

Experience

• Previous experience working as a data engineer in a start-up or fast-paced organisation.

• STEM background or similar.

• You have strong Python programming skills (built production-grade tools have a test-driven approach consistent and well documented code).

• You have strong SQL skills.

• Deployed applications on cloud services.

• Experience in using orchestration tools (Airflow Dagster or Prefect).

• Experience with container technology (Docker Kubernetes).

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (preferably Azure DevOps)

• Experience with application deployment to Cloud services (GCP AWS Azure preferred)

Bonus requirements

• Design and implement data frameworks.

• Experience with using data testing tools (Great Expectations Soda deequ).

• Experience with aspects of Data Governance.

• Experience with automation projects with Python Web API frameworks in Python (Flask FastAPI).

• You can share your GitHub repo (or equivalent)

Working at Allica Bank

At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do so our benefits are designed with you in mind:

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities

• Options for flexible working

• Regular social activities

• Pension contributions

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• Private health cover

• Life assurance

• Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

Dont tick every box

Dont worry if you dont have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think youll be a good fit wed still love to hear from you!

Flexible working

We know the 9-to-5 isnt right for everyone. Thats why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and if we can we will do our best to accommodate.

Diversity

Were a diverse bunch here at Allica with all kinds of experiences backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.

Required Experience:

Senior IC