Why be a Data Engineer with Cirrus Software Solutions?

Cirrus Software Solutions is a people-first software development company that puts our customers and teams first. We mainly work on behalf of the UK government to provide high-quality software products and services. We believe in working closely with our customers and listening to their needs. We also believe in empowering our teams to be self-organising and work effectively to produce the best results for our customers.

How is Cirrus Software Solutions different?

We'll invest in you, and alongside five days of training every year, we'll also make sure your AWS/Azure certifications are kept up to date. You don't have AWS or Azure certification yet? We'll make sure you have the minimum certification to enable you to do your job effectively over and above your standard training allowance when you join the company.

Ask yourself the following questions about your current role:

  • Do you currently work for a company where sales targets are more important than the work you produce?

  • Is your only pathway to promotion by going into management when you want to remain technical and be a subject matter expert?

  • Does it feel like your efforts are going to management bonuses over customer satisfaction?

  • Are you unempowered in your current role to make decisions?

  • Does it feel like an uphill struggle to get recognition for your efforts?

  • Do you want to help shape the future of a new company?

  • Do you work for a large organisation whose overall goals aren't clear, or do you find it difficult to help them achieve them?

If the answer is 'yes' to any of the above, try a different company and join Cirrus Software Solutions.

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries - £30k-80k, depending on experience

  • Bonus scheme

  • The opportunity to purchase share options under an EMI shares scheme

  • Introductory AWS/Azure certification for those that require it as well as an annual budget for additional training and conferences

  • Flexible 37.5-hour working week, including time off in lieu

  • 25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays)

  • Generous employee-contributed pension (matching up to 7.5%)

  • Healthcare package (including dental and optical)

  • Income protection for up to 75% of income for up to 5 years, should you have a long-term illness

  • Death-in-service benefit of 4 times your salary

Data Engineer

We’re looking for talented Data Engineers and Senior Data Engineers. The ideal candidates will be responsible for developing and constructing high-quality and highly available data services and integrating them into existing systems and business processes. They must be able to communicate with technical and non-technical people across an organisation. They should be comfortable with being largely self-sufficient and proactive at liaising with many technical teams. They should have a good understanding of the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Data analysis, visualisation and modelling

    • Able to accurately gain insight into data profiles and present them appropriately to the intended audience using a range of tools

  • Large-scale development process

    • Able to design, develop and test scalable data products based on feeds from multiple systems and using a range of storage technologies

  • Problem resolution

    • Able to explain and resolve problems in databases as well as in data processes, products and services

  • Testing

    • Able to design and develop appropriate levels of testing to verify data accuracy as well as test the limits of the overall system

  • Metadata Management

    • Able to maintain a metadata repository to ensure the data stays accurate and up to date.

    • Able to develop filtration rules to allow other users to perform complex tasks with the data

  • Senior Specific

    • Communicate between senior technical and non-technical clients

      • Able to translate technical concepts to a wide range of audiences and comfortable communicating with senior end clients

    • Reverse engineering

      • Able to reverse engineer raw data to understand its function

    • Mentor

      • Able to mentor junior engineers within a team

      • Able to lead a team of Data Engineer

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field

  • Cloud certification, or eager to do a cloud certification. Cirrus Software Solutions will fully fund and support you in this.

Desirable skills

  • Programming languages: Python, Go, C/C++

  • Visualisation Technologies: Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana

  • Queuing Technologies: RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, Kafka, Amazon SQS

  • Database/pool knowledge: Mongo, My SQL, Hadoop

  • Cloud technologies: AWS, Azure

  • Tools: Jupyter Notebooks, Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, Git, Docker, Kubernetes

  • Other: Microservice architecture, Agile experience, Infrastructure as Code, Testing, JSON, XML, YML

Due to the nature of our work a security clearance is required for all of our roles. To qualify for clearance, you must hold a British passport and have lived in the UK permanently for 10 years (and have 10 years of travel history.)

 

We put people at the centre of our business; we are both team and customer-focused. We believe that if you’re happy in your job then our customers will be happy with your results.

Interested in joining our team?

Fill out the form below and we will get in contact with you.