REQ ID: 126067

JOB TITLE: Senior Data Specialist

SALARY: £50,000 - £60,000 + Additions & Benefits

POSTING START DATE: 08/10/2024
POSTING END DATE: 22/10/2024

LOCATION: Gaydon, Warwick, UK 

In a commercial role at JLR, you can reimagine the future of modern luxury. In teams focused on extraordinary customer experience, sustainability and forward-thinking. You’ll work alongside strategically-minded problem-solvers supporting the transformation of our iconic house of brands – Range Rover, Defender, Discovery, and Jaguar – and our heritage-rich JLR Classic range. Becoming a proud creator of the exceptional starts here.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Come and join JLR as a Senior Data Specialist and drive the evolution of data excellence across our innovative organisation.

In this pivotal role, you’ll be at the heart of transforming how we manage, share, and leverage data to support some of our most advanced digital initiatives. If you’re passionate about data integrity and enjoy solving complex challenges, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

As a Senior Data Specialist, you’ll play a crucial role in the design, management, and engineering of a wide range of data. You’ll ensure that data flows seamlessly across the organisation, working with cutting-edge tools to enable consistent and reliable data sharing. From handling high-value projects to managing data pipelines, storage solutions, and interfacing with digital platforms, your expertise will ensure that data remains trusted, accurate, and delivered in a timely manner.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Support, optimise and maintain data pipelines of our complex, high-value digital products and well as support of other digital products/projects
• Identify, design and implement process improvements in data pipelines as well as automating manual processes, increase scalability, reduce run time and optimise cost
• Build analytic tools and solutions to support the business in data driven decision making and actionable insights
• Translate business problems into data analytics requirements and solutions that deliver value through analysing and processing data, building and maintaining models and report templates, and developing dynamic, data-driven solutions
• Resolving raw data questions using a storytelling approach to provide business clients with detailed, actionable solutions and provide advisory service to business domain analysts and citizen data engineers to assist with technical work in agreed territories

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Proven ability to lead small data engineering teams technically while working on multiple complex data engineering products simultaneously to ensure business continuity
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Previous experience working in a team in one of the following functions: data engineering and analytics, database development along with knowledge of modern programming languages & scripts; Python or equivalent (i.e. Java) development experience
• Experience of designing data models / data architecture and SQL development
• Experience in creating tests; unit testing, data quality tests, assumption testing, managing CI-CD pipelines as well as DevOps Methodologies

Creating Modern Luxury requires a modern approach to work. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work. Some roles require more on-site work, but details of this can be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview stage.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs. 

Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you’re unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role – but you're interested in where it could take you – we still encourage you to apply. We believe in people's ability to grow and develop within their role – it’s what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.
 

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