Senior Data Engineer

  • Jobtailor
  • Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
  • 25/07/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications SQL

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • Perform exploratory data analysis on a range of complex business problems.
  • Interpret business processes into data requirements.
  • Define and enforce key data attribute governance strategies.
  • Act as geographical data leader, reporting directly to the Data Architecture Manager.
  • Collaborate on data team initiatives impacting Ontic's global strategic pillars.
  • Administer and maintain the Snowflake Data Warehouse.
  • Devise and maintain data engineering development standards in line with best practice.
  • Contribute to data pipelines that clean, transform and aggregate data from disparate data sources into reporting data stores.
  • Provide input on the company data strategy by suggesting and proving new technologies and innovations.
  • Contribute to the translation of data into valuable insights that inform data driven decisions.
  • Develop dashboards and reports to present data insights to stakeholders around the business.
  • Support end-user technical questions and assist in data education.
  • Host on-site data quality clinics.
  • Participate in and audit data governance activities.
Requirements
  • Proven experience of administering and working in a Data Warehouse (experience of Snowflake highly preferred)
  • Ability to influence a team of technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience building data models and flows from various sources using Kimball Dimensional Modelling techniques.
  • Proven knowledge of data warehousing and data modelling principles.
  • Experience of DBT
  • Strong SQL programming experience in a commercial setting.
  • Experience of using BI reporting tools (i.e. Power BI) with an ability to develop reports and dashboards.
  • Awareness and familiarity with AI tool and technologies - preference for tools such as OpenAI Codex, Snowflake Cortex, Snowflake Intelligence
  • Experience of administering, creating, and maintaining data pipelines in an ELT application that cleans, transforms, and aggregates data from disparate data sources into reporting data stores.
  • Experience documenting ELT specifications such as source to target mappings, business rules and data validation requirements, ETL functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills for translating data insights into concise executive summaries and presentations.
  • Ability to present findings in a structured, clear manner with actionable insights.
  • Possess ability to both multi-task and manage priorities effectively with the ability to work proactively and independently in meeting stakeholder needs whilst adhering to tight deadlines.
  • Appreciation of data security, CCPA, GDPR and PII data handling principles.
  • A willingness to be utilised as a developer across other enterprise applications.
  • Experience of working in the Aerospace, Engineering, Manufacturing sectors
  • Experience with below toolset preferred: Snowflake cloud platform, Dbt, FiveTran, Precog, Microsoft Fabric/Power BI Analytics, GitHub, SDLC, Kimball Dimensional Modelling, Dynamics 365 Backend, Infor Syteline and/or Infor Visual ERP Backend, SQL