Data Engineer

Company Description

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments — from buying a home or a car to sending a child to college to growing a business by connecting with new customers — we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 17,800 people operating across 44 countries, and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation to help all our clients maximize every opportunity. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Learn more at www.experianplc.com or visit our global content hub at our global news blog for the latest news and insights from the Group

Job Description

We require an ambitious data engineer to join an agile team, with a passion to build outstanding solutions adhering to the highest technical standards and focused on delivering value to our customers. The successful candidate must have experience of the software development lifecycle, bring an understanding of the business perspective and a strong sense of ownership and responsibility around the products and services we deliver.

As an engineer your duties will include:

• Working as part of an existing agile team to develop quality solutions within required deadline.
• Collaborating effectively to support and enhance the full product lifecycle.
• Providing technical support
• Revising, updating, refactoring and debugging greenfield and established codebases
• Contributing to the effectiveness and success of the team  

Individuals will ideally be qualified to Degree, HND or HNC standard in a software development discipline or can demonstrate commercial experience of developing applications deployed on AWS.

Qualifications

Required skills:

• Experience of the full development lifecycle
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain solutions to technical and non-technical audiences
• Write clean, scalable code, with a view towards design patterns and best practices
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to analyse problems and requirements.
• Application Lifecycle Management Tools (e.g. GIT, Jira, Confluence)
• Familiar with Cicd pipeline tools
• Experience in Scala Development
• Experience in utilising Spark framework
• Familiarity in AWS technologies
• Ability to self-learn and drive your personal development

Desired:

• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• AWS Developer Certification
• Experience using python
• Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes
• Automated Testing Tools (e.g. Scalatest)
• RESTful and Microservice Architectures
• Terraform / cloud formation
• Familiarity of Sonarqube and Veracode.

Additional Information

Who are Experian?

We unlock the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. At life’s big moments – from buying a home or car, to sending a child to university, to growing a business exponentially by connecting it with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence so they can maximize every opportunity.

For more than 125 years, we’ve helped consumers and clients prosper, and economies and communities flourish – and we’re not done. Our 17,000 people in 37 countries believe the possibilities for you, and our world, are growing. We’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow.

Could this be the role for you? Apply now to start your journey with Experian.

To learn more about our culture and what it’s really like to work here, check out our LinkedIn and social media channels using the hashtags #ExperianLife and #ExperianWay.

Why choose us?

Our colleagues’ health and wellbeing are a top priority for us, that’s why our reward, benefits and wellbeing programmes are designed so you can come to work feeling your very best self. Our benefits focus on health, money and lifestyle so you can tailor your benefits to your own personal needs. Whether it’s your physical and mental wellness, getting to work or planning for the future, we have a range of flexible options to have you covered!

We are committed to building an inclusive culture and to creating an environment where people can balance successful careers with their commitments and interests outside of work. Our flexible working practices support our belief that this balance brings long-lasting benefits for our business as well as our people. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, and if this is important to you, we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process

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