Data Engineer

About The Role Team – Data Engineering Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth or London Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week. We are happy to discuss flexible working! Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Designing and delivering scalable data pipelines
• Strong programming capability with SQL
• Deploying and maintaining machine learning models as APIs in production environments

What this role is all about: Join us as a Data Engineer and help build the data foundations that power machine learning and analytics across Vitality. You’ll work with rich datasets and modern technologies to design and deliver reliable data pipelines and APIs that support a company focused on improving people’s health.Key Actions:

• Work with the Data Engineering team to implement robust and trustworthy data to support high-performance streams and predictive models. 
• Deploy and maintain machine learning models as APIs for use in our live environments
• Employ a variety of languages and tools (e.g. scripting languages) to develop and manage robust data pipelines connecting various systems
• Develop datasets and processes that facilitate data modelling, mining and production
• Provide clean, usable data to data community and recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality
• Research opportunities for data acquisition and new uses for existing data
• Provide analytical and modelling support when required
• Work collaboratively with the Data Science, Data Architecture, and other IT delivery teams to design, construct, install, test and maintain highly scalable data management systems. 

What do you need to thrive?

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology/Systems/Sciences/Maths 
• 3+ years of experience in business intelligence, data warehousing, data management and data delivery, database and ETL technologies.
• This role requires high business engagement with a specialist Pricing and Underwriting Actuarial team
• Experience using languages / tools / databases such as SQL and NoSQL, Python, Docker.
• Strong technical experience in designing and delivering data in BI warehouse and/or Big Data Lakes, supporting on premise and cloud architecture 

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities! If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.About The CompanyWe're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait. Diversity & Inclusion At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.Vitality’s approach to sustainability Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.