The role of Data Solutions Engineer supports The Wildlife Trusts in maintaining and enhancing data pipelines and infrastructure, ensuring the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of data systems, providing key insights and solutions to support decision-making across the organisation and federation, and responding to the needs of Wildlife Trusts and the delivery of their 2030 Strategy.
The Data Solutions Engineer will work collaboratively with various teams to develop data management solutions, new use cases, forecast data volumes, and ensure cost-effective service maintenance, enabling the organisation to leverage data for operational and strategic success, and supporting a strong community of practice within the federation of Wildlife Trusts.
The ideal candidate will have experience in a data engineering role, ideally with hands-on experience or the ability to upskill in cloud services like Azure and Databricks, as well as excellent proven proficiency in some of Apache Spark, Fivetran, SQL and/or Python and R, and/or PowerBI and other reporting tools.
The role requires a solid understanding of data security to ensure compliance with best practices, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, with a passion for data, a problem-solving attitude, and a can-do approach.
The Wildlife Trusts value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism, and strength in diversity, and particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within their sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities.
The role is full-time, 35 hours per week, with occasional travel to the Newark office/UK, and offers a competitive salary of up to £35,000 and a permanent contract.
The closing date for applications is the 24th November 2024, with the first interview on the 6th December 2024 and the second interview on the 10th December 2024.
The role is an exciting opportunity to become a part of a dynamic team and contribute to the development of a strong, collaborative culture, and to support the work of The Wildlife Trusts in reversing the loss of wildlife and putting nature into recovery at scale.