Senior Analytics Engineer

Job Overview

As a Senior Analytics Engineer in the Data Analytics team at Zoopla, you will own and develop the data modelling infrastructure, architecture, and pipelines powering a wide range of data initiatives and data products.

Responsibilities

• Own the analytics engineering workflow and architecture for the data modelling layer at the heart of the business.
• Ensure orchestration runs successfully, troubleshooting errors in key pipelines and empowering others to do the same.
• Effectively communicate and act as a liaison between highly technical and non-technical stakeholders, to translate business needs into engineering requirements.
• Deliver, and enable others to build, well-defined, transformed, tested, documented, and code-reviewed data sets.
• Proactively seek automation and optimisation opportunities to constantly improve and develop the transformation layer, and unify its usage across multiple teams.
• Train, upskill and support others in dbt and data modelling best practices, applying software engineering practices to analytics code.

Requirements

• Experience setting up & developing dbt architecture using CI/CD practices.
• Highly proficient with SQL and data modelling best practices for optimising performance.
• Experience working with visualisation tools such as Tableau or PowerBI.
• Confident collaborating and communicating with non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience integrating dbt with other tools in the modern data stack.
• Comfortable harnessing AI workflows to expedite development in a scalable, sustainable way.
• Experience working with Databricks and AWS (Glue, Lambda, Step Functions) or similar cloud platform is desirable.

Working Arrangements

• Hybrid working with 3 days in the office (Mondays and Thursdays as all-Zoopla days, plus a third day of your choice).
• Opportunity to work remotely for two days per week.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + additional leave benefits.
• Cycle to work and electric car schemes.
• Free Calm App membership.
• Enhanced Parental leave.
• Fertility Treatment Financial Support.
• Group Income Protection and private medical insurance.
• Gym on-site in London.
• 7.5% pension contribution by the company.
• Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary.