Data Engineer
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Position Overview & Specifications
Permanent
Full time (34.5 hours)
Home-based / Split between home and our London Office
£51,500 - £56,500
Help shape the future of data in Macmillan! Join our expanding Engineering team at Macmillan and help us deliver better services to support people living with cancer.
About the role
We're expanding our engineering function to form a new data engineering team.
Within this role, you'll solve the challenge of distributed data in Macmillan in a large-scale data transformation programme to give us a single source of truth.
You will help us create a Data Lake, build data pipelines to help extract data from various sources within the Macmillan tech stack and transform and maintain the data. You will assist with integration, consolidation, data cleansing and data structuring for use in analytics applications.
About you
You will have the following:
- Strong SQL skills.
- Experience with data warehouses, data lakes and tools.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services relating to a data platform e.g. Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
- Knowledge a programming language (e.g. C#, Java, Python) is a bonus.
- Understanding of dimensional modelling (e.g.Kimball)
In return, we offer
- 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options
- Pension matched up to 7.5%
- Private medical insurance, including a Virtual GP Service
- Learning and development time, including access to external professional qualifications
- Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours and flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
- Discounted gym membership, free wills, social team events and much more
About us
Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to be their best self to work.
We are striving to do everything we can to ensure that our workforce is representative of the people we support, and those who support us. We advocate for being an inclusive organisation, where everyone can feel that they belong and where there are no barriers to success.
Recruitment Process.
Application deadline is Sunday 11th June at 23:59.
In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.
Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United Kingdom Right to Work & Skilled Worker Visa Guide
Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:
Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.
Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: Grantmaking & Charitable Foundations
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Data Engineer roles across Macmillan Cancer Support's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Grantmaking & Charitable Foundations.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked £51,500 - £56,500 bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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