Data Engineer

TL;DR

Data Engineer: Improving services by engineering data products with an accent on designing, building, and supporting high quality engineering products from extensive data sources and multi-cloud environment. Focus on exploring new technologies, developing new skills, innovating and growing as an engineer.

Location: Riverside Tower, Belfast (N.I), United Kingdom. Working Style: 3 days a week in office, 2 days from anywhere. All Locations: London, Belfast

Company

hirify.global was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines using Ab Initio (GDE, PDL, Conduct >IT, Express>IT).
• Build scalable batch and streaming workloads using Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala).
• Develop and orchestrate data ingestion flows using Apache NiFi for real-time and near-real-time use cases.
• Optimize ETL/ELT jobs for scalability, throughput, and resource efficiency.
• Improve automated testing and deployments using CI/CD pipelines.
• Expectation to line manage small team of junior data engineers.

Requirements

• Proficient in building Big Data solutions using Hadoop or GCP or AWS.
• Skilled in technologies such as Scala, Java, Python, Spark (PySpark/Scala), Kafka, Kinesis, BigQuery, Dataflow, BigTable, Terraform, and SQL.
• Strong expertise in Ab Initio (GDE, PDL, Conduct>IT, Express>IT, EME) with a focus on parallel processing and component optimisation.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, including Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, and performance tuning.
• Practical experience with Apache NiFi for flow design, processor tuning, error handling, and security configurations.
• Experienced in version control using Git or SVN.

Culture & Benefits

• 10% on target bonus.
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%.
• Life Assurance Cover.
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages, BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service.
• World-class training and development opportunities.