Utility Warehouse
Data Engineer
Remote Data Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 20, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
United Kingdom
Role overview
Data Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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Your responsibilities will include:
- Pipeline Architecture: Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest large-scale datasets and high-frequency streams.
- Enterprise Warehousing: Lead the design and evolution of our enterprise data warehouse, ensuring it is scalable and performant.
- Modern Transformation: Manage our data transformation layer using Dataform (preferred) or dbt to orchestrate complex, reliable workflows.
- Quality & Deployment: Implement automated testing frameworks and deploy scalable services using Docker and Kubernetes to ensure operational health.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a strategic partner to Product and Engineering, facilitating data design sessions to optimise how data is ingested and utilised.
- Mentorship & Standards: Raise the bar for technical excellence within the squad through code reviews, design sessions, and documenting best practices.
We put people first. It’s all about you..
- Technical Mastery:You have extensive experience leading the design of data systems and models.You are an expert in SQL and Python, with a proven ability to independently implement complex, production-ready projects.You possess a deep understanding of dimensional modelling (Kimball) or Data Vault methodologies, essential for creating scalable enterprise schemas.
- You have extensive experience leading the design of data systems and models.
- You are an expert in SQL and Python, with a proven ability to independently implement complex, production-ready projects.
- You possess a deep understanding of dimensional modelling (Kimball) or Data Vault methodologies, essential for creating scalable enterprise schemas.
- Impact & Scope:You have a track record of leading high-impact initiatives that align with company strategy. You can evaluate proposed work against team goals and provide critical feedback to ensure value delivery.
- You have a track record of leading high-impact initiatives that align with company strategy. You can evaluate proposed work against team goals and provide critical feedback to ensure value delivery.
- Planning & Delivery:You are capable of driving the end-to-end delivery of large-scale features, providing high-quality architectural diagrams and technical documentation.
- You are capable of driving the end-to-end delivery of large-scale features, providing high-quality architectural diagrams and technical documentation.
- Operational Excellence:You have strong experience with modern DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and managing transformation layers at scale.
- You have strong experience with modern DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and managing transformation layers at scale.
- Business & Domain Knowledge:You can advise senior stakeholders on applying Data Engineering to solve complex business problems and are comfortable facilitating cross-functional design sessions.
- You can advise senior stakeholders on applying Data Engineering to solve complex business problems and are comfortable facilitating cross-functional design sessions.
- Leadership & Culture:You role-model UW values by promoting a data-driven culture, mentoring peers, and communicating technical successes and failures clearly to the wider Technology & Product department.
- You role-model UW values by promoting a data-driven culture, mentoring peers, and communicating technical successes and failures clearly to the wider Technology & Product department.
Details
- You have extensive experience leading the design of data systems and models.
- You are an expert in SQL and Python, with a proven ability to independently implement complex, production-ready projects.
- You possess a deep understanding of dimensional modelling (Kimball) or Data Vault methodologies, essential for creating scalable enterprise schemas.
- You have a track record of leading high-impact initiatives that align with company strategy. You can evaluate proposed work against team goals and provide critical feedback to ensure value delivery.
- You are capable of driving the end-to-end delivery of large-scale features, providing high-quality architectural diagrams and technical documentation.
- You have strong experience with modern DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and managing transformation layers at scale.
- You can advise senior stakeholders on applying Data Engineering to solve complex business problems and are comfortable facilitating cross-functional design sessions.
- You role-model UW values by promoting a data-driven culture, mentoring peers, and communicating technical successes and failures clearly to the wider Technology & Product department.
Skills / Competencies
- Strategic Problem Solving: Ability to break down vague, high-level business requirements into concrete, scalable technical architectures.
- Clear Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
- Accountability: Willingness to take ownership of critical systems and participate in on-call rotations.
- Continuous Learning: Proactively seeking out the latest industry trends and introducing relevant innovations to the team.
Possible Next Career Steps
- Senior Data Engineer
- Staff Data Engineer
So why pick UW?
- Competitive salary: We benchmark against the industry and will share the salary openly during our first conversation.
- Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
- Flexible working: We’re a remote-first business.
- Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).
- Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year.
- Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.
- UW discounts: Save on our services and you’ll also get access to 100s of rewards and discounts through Perkbox
- Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).
- Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
- Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.
- Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
- Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.
- Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture.
- Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.
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