Senior Data Engineer
London
Deployment /
Full-time /
On-site
WovenLight was founded to streamline and improve performance for asset managers by reimagining value creation capabilities. Today we craft proprietary IP and cutting-edge AI to generate superior performance in each aspect of the investment lifecycle.
To execute our mission we are building an integrated team of world class data, product, technology and operations professionals.
As a WovenLight Senior Data Engineer you will support the development and deployment of analytics models at WovenLight portfolio companies and services clients. Examples of projects you would be involved in include:- optimisation modelling to improve manufacturing throughput, predictive modelling to anticipate/avoid asset downtime, predicting and reducing customer churn, identifying next best action for sales agents, geospatial modelling to improve store footprint; and many more. You will commonly do this alongside a WovenLight team of ~4 people, composed of some combination of Deployment Managers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers.
Your work on these projects will include:
- Working with a range of stakeholders to understand, assess and map a company's data landscape
- Collaborating with data science colleagues to map data fields to hypotheses in order to curate, wrangle, and prepare data for use in advanced analytical models
- Acquiring, ingesting, and processing data from multiple sources and systems
- Building modular pipelines to construct features and modelling tables
Alongside your technical capabilities, we are looking for someone with excellent communication skills and a collaborative nature - enabling you to interact successfully with a wide range (entry level to C-suite) stakeholders within the portfolio company (e.g. IT, InfoSec, data source / system owners, CTO, CIO).
You must be passionate about learning and improving ways of working at WovenLight. To this end you will also work alongside our investment teams and product engineering squads to build analytics product technology that can help us deliver impact faster and more efficiently.
The successful candidate should have the following attributes:
- Passion and expertise in applying data and analytics to deliver commercial impact (4+ years)
- Bachelor’s degree (at least 2:1) or higher in a quantitative subject
- Strong communication skills - able to explain complex analytical concepts to individuals from other fields
- Expertise with core analytic technologies (Python, Scala, SQL, Java),
- Ability to work with a range of database technologies including most of: distributed processing (e.g. Spark), traditional RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL), MPP (e.g. AWS Redshift), NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB) and ETL tooling
- Expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Could Platform and Databricks
Our core team is based in London. Interviews for this role will be conducted via a combination of phone, video-conference and in person.
WovenLight is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
