Data Engineer (full-time contract) at ClearScore

Description

At ClearScore we believe understanding data is key to understanding our customers, and it’s this understanding that will unlock our ability to build great products. We are looking for a Data Engineer to join the team for three months on a full-time contract to help us build a world class data platform which enables the team to access to the data they need to guide their decisions and actions every day. You’ll be helping us solve data challenges like gathering data from various sources into the data warehouse, structuring data for reporting in various visualisation tools and writing scripts to automate parts of the data pipeline.

Why ClearScore?

ClearScore is currently the biggest marketplace for credit products in the UK and in South Africa with over 14 million users. We were the first business to offer free credit reports. We did so because we are user-centric at our core and believe in leveraging our technology to enable positive financial choices. We are design-led and data driven and we embed these behaviours in everything we do.

Our company culture is a fundamental part of all we have achieved. We believe in hiring smart, driven, passionate and diverse people who are keen on having a real impact in our organisation. We trust you to manage your own time, so we offer flexible work and no fixed desk hours. We don't micromanage and we believe in measuring outcomes rather than effort. We have an inclusive culture where all, regardless of seniority, are encouraged to contribute with their ideas, look after their wellbeing and actively seek opportunities for career growth.

If you feel like this could be the place for you, apply and our Talent team will be happy to share more.

The Challenge

Over the last couple of years, we managed to build a complex, end to end data platform that powers many use cases across Clearscore. As the company continues to grow, we’re looking to make it more robust, scalable and efficient, to make sure it scales with the business. To help make this happen, you will be responsible for:

• Processing daily and weekly reports from 3rd party sources

• Simplifying the ingestion of data from these sources to reduce manual processing and computation times

• Data cleansing and preparation

• Creating structured tables in the data warehouse to make the data clear, understandable and accessible to end users (other analysts and team members)

• Writing scripts to automate the ingestion of daily reports into the data warehouse

Requirements

• A certification or bachelors degree in computer science, data analytics, big data or similar

• 3+ years experience as a data engineer/ BI developer/ data analyst

• Experience creating tables, stored procedures and ETLs in a data warehouse or data lake environment

• Proven track record of extracting and manipulating large data sets by writing scripts in SQL or Python

• Knowledge of the end to end data pipeline, with a focus on data cleaning, structuring and transformation

• Understanding of the AWS data stack would be highly beneficial (S3, Redshift)

• Experience analysing large sets of data and exposure to various analytical tools and techniques

• An analytical mind with an eye for detail and demonstrated history of solving complex data challenges

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and the ability to work from home

• Monthly team events and office days out that we get to choose, and company events at the end of each race and retro

• 20 days paid leave and a duvet day on your birthday