Senior Data Engineer, Sheffield

Senior Data Engineer

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Job Title: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Fully flexible - remote, hybrid or office-based

Annual Salary: £60,000 - £80,000

Contract: Permanent

Twinkl is on an exciting journey to redefine how we serve our global teaching community through data. We're building a world-class data engineering function to power the next generation of our data platform, with modern tools and practices at our core.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll build and maintain the robust data systems that power our analytics and operational needs. You'll work across our entire data platform, from batch processing to real-time event streams, ensuring our solutions are scalable, maintainable, and deliver real value to our users.

Data Engineering Team

You'll have the opportunity to work with modern data engineering tools and practices, while learning from experienced engineers. We offer the freedom to work in whatever way suits you best - whether that's remote, in our Sheffield office, or a mix of both. You're encouraged to contribute to architectural decisions, take ownership of key platform components, and develop your skills across the full data engineering spectrum. With our focus on impact over hours worked, you'll be part of a team that values pragmatic solutions and continuous learning, working on projects that make a real difference to educators worldwide.

We embrace modern data engineering practices and tools
We champion learning and development
We believe in empowering engineers to drive technical decisions
We focus on impact and outcomes over process

What will you be doing?

As Our Senior Data Engineer, You Will

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines
Implement event streaming solutions
Design and optimize data models
Contribute to architectural decisions
Ensure data quality and reliability
Work closely with data scientists and analysts
Help establish engineering best practices
Help build and maintain our data catalog and documentation
Implement robust testing practices that give us confidence in our data
Contribute to data quality frameworks and standards
Turn complex data problems into maintainable solutions

What do we need from you?

Strong experience with modern data engineering tools and practices
Understanding of event-driven architectures
Experience with cloud platforms and services
Knowledge of data modeling and warehouse design
Strong SQL and Python skills
Experience with version control and CI/CD
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts
Understanding of data quality and testing approaches
Experience implementing data quality checks that matter
Understanding of data lineage and metadata management
Knowledge of testing practices for data pipelines

Most Importantly, You Should

Be curious about how things work and always looking to learn more
Care about building reliable systems that make other people's jobs easier
Understand that sometimes "boring" technology is the right choice
Get satisfaction from cleaning up messy data problems
Want to work somewhere where you can have real impact, not just maintain the status quo

What’s in it for you?

A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before process
Flexible working with fully remote and hybrid working options - early bird or night owl? No problem - our flexible working policy helps you work the hours that suits you best
33 days annual leave per year, pro rata. You decide which public holidays to recognise. After 2 years of employment, your annual leave entitlement will accrue year on year up to 38 days annual leave
An additional day of annual leave, a Me Day, to take time for yourself
Charity day to volunteer and support a registered charity of your choice
Westfield Health (including Health Club discount and Westfield Rewards discount and cashback)
Learning and Development opportunities, with opportunities for internal mobility across various departments / areas of the business
4 x annual salary death in service life assurance
Enhanced pension after long service
Enhanced parental and adoption leave after long service
Quarterly awards designed to reward and recognise our wonderful Twinkl employees
Seasonal events for all UK employees so you can catch up with your new colleagues in person
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How do we make it happen?

We like to keep things simple and clear, after an initial chat with our TA Partner the process is:

Initial 30 minute chat with the Head of Data Engineering so you can get to know more about the role.

Take-home technical test, which will involve some coding

60 minute technical interview - we’ll go over your tech test and talk about it in more detail. Then we’ll do a few competency based questions. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the role and Twinkl and get to know why the data team is a really exciting place to work.

60 minute behaviours interview - where we'll do some competency based questions and you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the role and Twinkl and get to know why the data team is a really exciting place to work.

That’s it, we’ll review everything and let you know, either way you’ll be given feedback about your interview because we believe constructive feedback is always important.

At Twinkl, we encourage diversity, and our doors are open to everyone. We're committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all. If you need any adjustments during the application process to showcase your abilities, please let us know. We're here to support you on your journey.

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