Data Engineer, remote

• Up to £75k + potential 10% bonus
• Monday to Friday, flexible working
• Remote
• 25 days holiday p.a. plus bank holidays and you can also buy up to 5 days, paid back over 12 months (Pro-rata), when you reach 2 years’ service this will rise to 26 days, then 1 day with each year of service up to 5 years
• Holiday buying scheme
• One day to give back via volunteering
• Employee Voice – HR Hive Engagement Survey and Open Door
• Healthcare cash plan
• Grab a grand referral scheme
• Pension scheme
• Birthday leave
• Learning and development opportunities – individual personal development plans
• Electrical vehicle salary sacrifice scheme once probationary period has been passed

Bloom Procurement Services is an award winning, Level 2 Social Value accredited organisation who help our public sector customers to deliver brilliant outcomes today that build a better tomorrow. We’re proud to be an accredited real Living Wage Employer, we have mental health first aiders, and we do whatever we can to ensure the voices of our employees are heard through our Open-Door tool.

We have a newly created opportunity for a Data Engineer to join our growing Technology team. The Data Engineer will be building pipelines to integrate our various applications as well as a new platform for reporting. This will form the foundation for delivering data insights to us and our customers, meaning many exciting challenges requiring creative solutions from engineers showing curiosity and innovation. You will get to work with a close-knit team using the latest technology and have opportunities to learn to continue your professional development.

The Data Engineer will be accountable for the following:

• Engineering data ingestion processes for Bloom’s Marketplace platform
• Engineering data transformation processes to support reporting, e.g. writing data extract queries, transformation jobs, output construction
• Investigation/resolution of data issues
• Accessing external data sources

If you’re interested in applying for the role of Data Engineer, we are looking for you to demonstrate experience with the following technologies:

• Python
• Spark
• SQL
• RDBMSs e.g. Postgres, MySQL

Desirable (in order of priority):

• AWS data components e.g. Glue, Athena
• Jupyter
• Data warehousing
• Java
• Data access through REST APIs

Bloom offers a dynamic supply chain providing the public sector with a marketplace to buy and manage services. We ensure delivery of quality outcomes from our pre-approved and ever-growing network of suppliers and consultants. Our fully compliant open access marketplace is outcomes based meaning the public sector only pays for what is delivered. We provide an OJEU compliant managed procurement service covering specification development, supplier identification & onboarding, full contract management, and lessons learned upon successful delivery of outcomes.

We make it easier for public sector buyers to deliver on their social value goals through our marketplace and believe in the need to demonstrate innovation and showcase the skills of the SME community including social value that can be generated through every project.

It is our mission to deliver operational excellence and an outstanding customer experience for our growing community of buyers and suppliers with a vision to provide the world with a marketplace that delivers innovation, insight and value for everyone. Having grown significantly over the last 3 years from £29m to £200m, it really is a great time to join and be a part of the Bloom story.