Senior Data Engineer

AnyVan makes moving anything, anywhere easier, more affordable and greener for everyone. With Over 8 million customers across the UK and Europe since our launch over a decade ago, we’re proud to be known as the largest, fastest growing tech company in the logistics industry.

Like many popular marketplaces, we’re asset light – i.e., we don’t own any vehicles or employ any drivers. We work with our transport partners and use technology to disrupt the entire delivery and moving process and to optimise the most efficient journeys.

Sustainability is a core part of AnyVan’s mission and reducing environmental impact has always been at the heart of our business. We’re proud to say we’ve achieved carbon-neutral status on all our transport moves, and we won’t stop here! So if you want to move your career forward we'd love to hear from you!

Our data engineering team are on a mission: To build a secure, resilient and cost-effective data platform that makes it possible for everyone to be an analyst.

We want anyone in the business to be able to make best in class data driven decisions that support our growth. To achieve this we have a small team of smart data engineers that prioritise automation over convoluted and rigid processes and can quickly adapt to changing needs in the business. We are also pragmatic and have an open mind about introducing new tools that will make our colleagues and partners more efficient in their jobs.

As a Senior Data Engineer you will work closely with teams in the Data Space, namely: Business Intelligence, Data Science and Software Engineering Teams.

Some of your daily responsibilities will include the following:

• Design, implement and maintain (monitoring, alerting, incident resolution) a Data Warehouse
• Administer tools and systems (security, access control, performance)
• Help Software Engineering Teams understand how the features they release perform over time
• Help the BI team in their journey to promote self-service datasets for key business areas
• Automation through Infrastructure As Code and scripting
• Data quality and consistency data standardisation, documentation and user onboarding

Here are some of the tools and technologies you will use;

• Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Tableau, Airflow, Python, AWS Services (Fargate, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, Cloudwatch, to name a few), Terraform, CircleCI, Github, Docker, Datadog, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Google Suite.

Skills and experience we think you'll need to be successful in the role;

• Experience working in fast paced consumer focused organisation, preferably in a scaleup phase
• A good understanding of Devops Best Practices around automation (e.g. CI/CD)
• Experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS preferred but not mandatory)
• Understands Infrastructure As Code (Terraform preferred but not mandatory)
• Experience of Data Security best practices and Data Privacy laws
• Experience running Data Platforms to support Production workloads
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Strong understanding of Git

Please note if we are able to support visa sponsorship for a role it will be highlighted in the requirements section.

We are extremely proud of our culture and believe in the many benefits that being in the office provides. All of our roles require regular time in our office in the Central Business District in Cape Town. Unfortunately, we do not offer fully remote roles but we support hybrid working wherever possible. However, to meet the needs of our customers and business operations many of our Operational and Commercial roles are fully office based.

Our Values are

Own - Have fun, get it done

Work hard, play harder

Satisfaction in results

Do the right thing

Drive - Progress Over Perfection

Innovate and disrupt

Curious and adaptable

Work quick, learn quicker

Deliver - One Team Thinking Big

Collaborate and communicate

Celebrate wins

Embrace challenges

Diversity and Inclusion

At AnyVan we’re focused on equality. We believe that diverse teams are the best teams and foster an inclusive environment where we celebrate our differences and where our people can be their authentic selves. We believe this encourages collaboration and supports opportunities for our people and teams to deliver their best work. We encourage and welcome applications from anyone that shares this passion.