Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Target Start Date:  ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: £68k - £78k dependant on experience
Location: Eastleigh, Hybrid
Closing Date for applications: 6th June 2025

Senior Data Engineer: Are you ready to lead the charge in delivering cutting-edge data engineering solutions that power business-critical decisions? At Ageas, we’re on a mission to transform how data drives our business—and we’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help us get there.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll take ownership of discrete data engineering deliveries, ensuring the timely and accurate provision of data that underpins our business operating plans. You’ll lead by example, coach developers, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our data platform.


Main Responsibilities as Senior Data Engineer:

• Lead the design, development, and testing of data solutions across the full development lifecycle.
• Manage day-to-day delivery of assigned work and deputise for the Data Operations Manager when required.
• Coach and mentor developers, fostering technical growth and capability within the team.
• Collaborate with other teams across EDS to ensure seamless data delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement in data engineering standards, tools, and processes.
• Ensure adherence to best practices in data governance, security, and compliance across all data engineering activities.
• Provide accurate estimates for development work and contribute to project planning and prioritisation.

Skills and experience you need as Senior Data Engineer:

• Proven experience in leading data engineering projects and mentoring teams.
• Strong technical skills in data warehouse design, ETL development, and data lifecycle management.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, SQL, or similar languages.
• Experience with Snowflake and Matillion preferred
• CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps experience.
• Experience with Azure cloud platform, and security concepts i.e. Keyvault, ACL’s and RBACs
• A passion for data and a drive to embed engineering excellence across the team.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Familiarity with dimensional modelling and its application in building scalable, analytical data solutions.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas: 

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.

 About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.

Important Notice – Recruitment Scam Alert: We are aware of fraudulent activity whereby individuals are being contacted with fake job offers claiming to be from Ageas, often for remote roles such as Administrative Assistants. These scams may include offers of high hourly pay and requests for upfront payments or deposits. Please be aware that Ageas will never ask for money at any stage of the recruitment process. Ageas will always ask you to make an application via our Company Websites and all legitimate Ageas job opportunities are listed on our official careers pages within. Communication will only come from verified Ageas email addresses and if you are unsure about the legitimacy of a job offer or communications you are receiving, please contact recruitment@ageas.co.uk with the subject FRAUD.

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