Senior Data Engineer
Uddingston - UK
Job Summary
Role:
Senior Data Engineer
About You:
Are you the kind of Data Engineer who enjoys being the person everyone relies on when data matters most Do you thrive on building reliable pipelines improving data quality and ensuring critical business decisions are driven by trusted information Are you as comfortable writing complex SQL as you are building automated monitoring troubleshooting failures and improving data architecture If you enjoy ownership and want to have a direct impact on how a fast-growing business operates DFYNE could be exactly where you belong.
About DFYNE:
A picture paints a thousand words and were sure you dont want to sit here reading a corporate essay about who we are. Honestly how can you really get under the skin of DFYNE from a few lines on a screen So instead go have a look for yourself see what were about what we stand for and why people love us: .
About the role DFYNE Your Career:
Before I tell you more about the role let me introduce myself. Im Bruce Head of Development at DFYNE and Im looking for our first dedicated Senior Data Engineer. This role will own the DFYNE data warehouse helping ensure the data that powers finance reporting forecasting inventory management and operational decision-making remains accurate reliable and available. Youll take ownership of BigQuery pipelines transformation layers exports and integrations while working closely with teams across the business. This is a hands-on role where youll help define data engineering standards improve data reliability and build the foundation of DFYNEs future data capability.
Attitude:
Ownership mentality
Builder mindset
Commercial awareness
Problem-solving mindset
Continuous improvement
Key Responsibilities:
Own the performance reliability security and ongoing development of DFYNEs BigQuery data warehouse and associated data pipelines.
Design build and maintain scalable ingestion and transformation processes.
Implement data quality monitoring validation and automated alerting.
Define data contracts with business stakeholders and system owners.
Improve reliability accuracy and freshness of business-critical data.
Lead investigation and resolution of data incidents ensuring root causes are identified and permanently addressed.
Support ERP finance forecasting and operational reporting requirements.
Build and maintain integrations for fulfilment and logistics platforms.
Identify and resolve data quality issues and pipeline failures.
Contribute to data architecture governance and engineering standards.
Collaborate closely with Finance Operations and Engineering teams.
Support reporting analytics and business intelligence initiatives.
Drive continuous improvement across DFYNEs data platform.
Skills & Experience:
5 years of commercial Data Engineering experience.
Expert SQL skills and strong Python development experience.
Hands-on BigQuery experience or equivalent cloud data warehouse technologies.
Experience with dbt Dataform or similar transformation frameworks.
Experience building and operating production data pipelines.
Experience implementing monitoring testing and alerting for data systems.
Strong understanding of data quality governance and reliability.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Experience supporting finance ERP or operational reporting environments.
Ability to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
Nice to Have:
Google Cloud Platform certifications.
Logistics fulfilment or e-commerce experience.
Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
Experience with modern analytics and reporting tools.
Experience scaling data platforms in high-growth businesses.
So whats in it for you:
If youve made it this far down without being put off brilliant. Id genuinely love to hear from you. Beyond joining a work family and a genuinely great place to build your career youll become DFYNEs first dedicated Data Engineer and help shape the future of data within one of the UKs fastest-growing companies. Youll work on a modern data platform supporting finance forecasting ERP and operational decision-making while having genuine ownership and influence from day one.
Youll be part of a high challenge; high reward culture.
What will aid a successful application with DFYNE:
Cover letter
Completed questionnaire
Salary starting from 65k per year.