Data Engineer, Dayshape
£38-44k
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AI-powered resource management software
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AI-powered resource management software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£38-44k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve people's working lives.
Role
Who you are
- You must have demonstrable experience in Azure Data Factory or any relevant cloud ETL technology and be comfortable building transparent, easy-to-support pipelines
- Must have proven experience in Data Engineering environments
- Experience building and maintaining data integrations with a variety of external systems
- Good understanding of the ETL process
- Comfortable being in a client-facing role
- Excellent communication skills: you can clearly explain technical matters to any audience
- Confident working with complex referential data
- Knowledge of Rest APIs, SQL databases and other data sources
- A team player, with experience collaborating with other departments
- You demonstrate good attention to detail and enjoy breaking complex problems down into simple steps
Desirable
- Previous experience directly leading calls with clients
- Experience in other Azure data technologies such as Azure Databricks
- Integrated with a variety of downstream data sources, including but not limited to: Cloud services, Custom Rest APIs, Database (on-prem)
What the job involves
- This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be flexible around this, just let us know
- During 2024 we grew and gained many new customers. We are adapting our processes as we scale, and this includes growing our new, specialised team of data engineers for developing customer integrations
- This is a highly collaborative role where you will have the opportunity to work directly with clients on requirements gathering and the implementation of new integrations. As the demand for integration work increases, you will be heavily involved in setting the standards for our integrations going forward
- Work with our software implementation consultants (SICs) to define and verify specification documents for ETL process
- Work with customer IT to test customer data source endpoints to ensure they meet specification
- Implement, test and deploy Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipeline definitions within version control to customer environments
- Work with our Site Reliability Engineering team to ensure your solutions are observable, reliable and performant
- Work with our Engineering teams to ensure end-to-end capability for integrated data
- Support cutover to production systems (can be outside normal working hours)
- Identify improvements to existing Azure Data Factory processes to ensure they are more maintainable across a growing set of customers
Application process
- Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand
Our take
Dayshape offers AI-powered resource management software developed to help professional services firms meet profit and growth targets, and client service standards, and offer more rewarding careers for employees. Its features include automated resource scheduling, approval workflows and engagement performance alerts, capacity planning tools, and skills tracking.
Dayshape has 30,000+ global users across 20 countries, including two of the Big Four professional services firms. This is a big coup: competitors are plentiful in this space, especially now that complex hybrid workforces have increased the market appetite for tools to help manage them. As a purpose-built and dedicated solution, Dayshape’s focus on automation, people-first planning, and real-time project financials, gives it an edge against legacy resource management tools.
Dayshape is using its remarkably fast growth (it’s regularly been the fastest-growing Scottish tech company of the year) to continue its global expansion into the US, where the professional services industry includes well over a million different firms.
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Nice people
"Dayshape has some of the nicest people I have ever worked with, my team is very close knit and even with remote working we find ways to stay..."
Company benefits
- Innovation Week twice a year, a chance to experiment and work off-project
- Weekly All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
- Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, online games, D&D, and at-home cocktail classes!
- Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company
- Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
- At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
- 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
- Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
- Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality
- Enhanced family leave
- Income protection and death in service cover
- Matched 5% salary sacrifice or auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
- Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
- Salary sacrifice EV car scheme
Company values
- Ever-improving - Today our best, tomorrow better
- Unity - Working together, aligning our goals
- Well-being - People first, always
- Well-formed opinions - Everyone gets a say. It’s mandatory
Company HQ
Edinburgh Old Town, Edinburgh, UK
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Leadership
Andrew Bone
(Co-Founder & Chair )Originally a Software Engineer, who then worked as an Assurance Executive with PwC, and then took on various roles at RBS.
Alastair Andrew
(Co-Founder & Principal Engineer)Previously a Software Engineer at Graham Technology, who went on to complete a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde.
Matt Cockett
(CEO)Matt brings extensive experience in scaling global tech companies in people-centric sectors and will guide the business as we expand into more geographies and industries.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Dayshape
Alex Chaudhary (Office & Employee Experience Manager)
- We have an employee-led DEI board
- We run regular DE&Ialogue sessions on different DEI topics where employees can share their experiences and learn from each others' perspectives on topics like family life, LGBTQ+, mental health, neurodiversity, and more
- We are a Disability Confident committed employer
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