Job Title: Data Operations Engineer Location: Hybrid – 1 day per fortnight in the Wilmslow offices Working hours 8am to 16:30pm The Role Following recent investment, The Citation Group are looking to build out their data capabilities to be Best in Class. As such, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a strong data engineer to work in the data engineering team to maintain robust data pipelines. We’re looking for a business focussed individual, who can work independently in time sensitive situations to ensure the reliability of data pipelines feeding the group data warehouse Responsibilities Pro-actively ensuring platform and pipelines are reliable and robust, fixing issues as they arise and proposing & implementing stability improvements Sending proactive communications and alerts to stakeholders notifying and providing updates on issues impacting them managing Data Warehouse small change overseeing deployments maintaining documentation on team processes designing and maintaining data pipeline performance reporting The Person We are looking for someone who can roll their sleeves up and ‘dig in’ with the rest of the team. In addition, the successful candidate should have: Excellent communication skills with an attention to detail, able to anticipate the needs of data users in the business Programming experience in Python Experience writing, troubleshooting, and debugging advanced SQL queries Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills Experience working with ETL/ELT, and reporting and analytics tools Skills and experience we’d love you to have… But if not? We’ll help you get there: Understanding of cloud computing security concepts Experience in relational cloud-based database technologies like Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift Experience in open-source technologies like Spark, Kafka, Beam understanding of Cloud tools such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Familiarity with DBT, Delta Lake, Databricks Experience working in an agile environment About Us We are Citation. We are far from your average service provider. Our colleagues bring their brilliant selves to work every day and we create an environment where they can shine. We are a nice bunch. We don’t do office politics or “that’s not my job”. We listen, support and take ownership. We have been proudly delivering valuable HR and Health and Safety services to SME’s across the UK for over 20 years. Passionate about service, we’re on a mission to revolutionise our colleague’s and client’s experience by employing brilliant people who are experts at what they do and smile whilst they are doing it. Working for Citation you will have access to 25 days holiday, plus your birthday off work, gym membership discount, healthcare, childcare vouchers, the opportunity to purchase extra leave, pension contributions and more. It’s a great place to work because of the people we employ. Fun and professional, we want likeminded individuals who love to love their job and want the Company to succeed. So, if our culture sounds like a good fit for you and you want to be part of our success story, then send us your details.