Data Engineer / DBA
Location: GB, , Teddington
Employment type: Full-time
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Consumer Services
Function: Data Analyst
Salary range: 30000-38000
Company profile: VouchedFor is a highly disruptive start up in the Financial Advice market. Created in 2011, we are an innovative start-up backed by investors whose previous successes include Zoopla, eBay, Lovefilm and Betfair. We connect consumers with Independent Financial Advisers and Mortgage Advisors that they can trust, based on customer reviews. We have exciting plans to do a whole lot more, makinggreat financial advice accessible and engaging to all.VouchedFor is the only UK digital platform that lets you find, rate and review Independent Advisors.We have successfully carved a place for ourselves in a commercial sector with revenues over £4.4 billion, and with nearly 2000 financial advisers now signed up, VouchedFor has created adviser capacity in excess of even the largest financial firms (e.g., St James Place, Barclays Wealth, Hargreaves Lansdown). The product and marketing opportunities this presents are endless, spanning investments, pensions, mortgages, annuities and more. This role is literally an opportunity to change the way the UK public goes about managing its wealth.
Description: After a rapid period of growth we're really excited to be growing our development team and starting our next phase of expansion. We have a pipeline of new projects we need to deliver using a modern architecture and development tools, integrating with new partners and building features. As a small team we are looking for people that are inspired by being part of a young fast moving business, data driven decisions, staying lean and agile and leveraging technology as it emerges to gain competitive advantage.The Role• Taking our various data sets, cleansing, improving, normalizing and merging themappropriately.• Introducing Dashboards and reporting on key business metrics• Deciding on, proposing and introducing appropriate data tools• Sourcing, working with and improving our geographical data and introducing much morelocalised reporting ability• Some MySQL DBA type work (backup's and restores, adding users, audit and permission,data refreshes, writing ad-hoc extracts)• Helping us scale and being proactive to ensure we're always have appropriate infrastructurein place to deal with planned demand.• Performance monitoring and tuning of database and queries alongside front-end and APIdevelopers to ensure end-users get consistently quick load times.• Data Analysis and drawing conclusions from various data sets
Requirements: About you:You can organise, improve and drive meaningful insights from data. You understand what it means to be data driven and have both the hands on technical know-how to set the processes and metrics up and present them usefully. You also need to have the data analyst mind set to ensure we're measuring the correct things and point us to some key metrics we may be missing.Your Skills and Experience:• A deep knowledge of relational databases and SQL (mySQL)• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communications ability• Hands-on experience building and improving database applications, including architecture,implementation, scaling, and support• Experience in gathering and processing raw data (including scripting, calling APIs, SQLqueries, etc.).• Worked closely with a development team to deliver improvements.• Processed unstructured data and performed analysis on it.• The ability to work to project milestones and production deadlinesNice to Have:• Sugar CRM• Expertise in Google Analytics• Experience or interest in working with NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra,Hadoop)• Experience within an agile development team along with an understanding of ContinuousIntegration and Continuous Delivery methodologies• Used Source Control tools (Git, subversion)• MI, Penhato or similar
Benefits: Competitive SalaryStart-up culture - we have fun and your contributions are valuedModern office, tea coffee and biscuits on usFriday Team lunch and regular social events.High Spec workstationPotential for Share Options
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