Data Engineer Apprentice

Employer description: 

Hyperfinity leverage cutting edge data science and AI to support retailers in making profitable decisions regarding pricing, marketing, and retail media, combining innovative technology with expert human insights to deliver exceptional results for their clients. HyperFinity was established to help retailers and brands use advanced analytics to understand customer and product relationships, and make unified, customer led decisions, with the insight they uncover.

Hyperfinity have a growing list of esteemed partners including household names such as Morrisons, Costa Coffee, Hotel Chocolat, Card Factory, Toolstation, and JD Sports.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance data pipelines.
• Contribute to building data observability tools to ensure data quality, consistency, and availability across the organisation.
• Optimise processes to support data ingestion, transformation, and warehousing.
• Work closely with Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Software Engineers to build, automate and refine data products which solve business problems.
• Support client delivery for analytics engineering projects (these projects may involve elements of data analysis and data science).

Desirable skills: 

• Python / SQL coding skills.
• Knowledge and experience of data modelling techniques.
• Communication and stakeholder management abilities both internally / externally.
• Attention to detail and a proactive approach to data integrity and security.
• Familiar with Extract, Transform, Load or ETL processes will help
• A passion for data engineering and a desire to learn and grow in the field.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Familiarity with data engineering concepts and tools is a plus.

Entry requirements:

A Level 3 qualification in a relevant area in any grade.

Acceptable qualifications include, any of:

• Two A levels in one or more similar subject.*
• Level 3 apprenticeship in a similar subject.
• International Baccalaureate at Level 3 in a similar subject.
• BTEC Extended Diploma in a similar subject.
• Experience with programming languages (such as Python)
• OR equivalent work experience:
• 2-3 years in a similar subject-related role.

*'Similar subject' relates to areas directly relevant to or commensurate with 'Digital and Technology Solutions'. Typically this would be areas such as but not limited to Level 3 digital apprenticeships, A-Level/BTEC Computer Science, Information Technology, Networking, Software Engineering, etc.

Please note: Learners must not hold an existing qualification at the same or higher level than this apprenticeship in a similar subject.

You may also have a combination of qualifications and experience which demonstrate the minimum foundation needed for the programme. In this instance you could still be considered for the programme.

If you hold international equivalents of the above qualifications, at the time of your application you must be able to provide an official document that states how your international qualifications compare to the UK qualifications. 

For more information please visit the UK ENIC website.

Working hours:

8.30am - 5pm (1 hour lunch break)

Benefits:

• 26 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays.
• Company pension.
• Early finish every Friday.
• Casual dress code.
• ‘Lunch and learn’ and on-demand online courses.
• Quarterly team building/away days.
• One charity day each year.
• 4x salary death in service benefit
• Discounted gym memberships (Nuffield, Hussle+)
• AXA Health Insurance - private healthcare

Future prospects:

To qualify as a fully-fledged Data Engineer at Level 5 and continue your growth at HyperFinity with strong progression plans in place.

About QA:

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