Specialist - Data Engineering

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with advanced skills in SQL, Power BI, and Python to
drive data-driven financial insights and support strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate will lead complex data analysis, build robust financial models, and develop interactive dashboards to provide clear, actionable business intelligence for the finance team and stakeholders and to develop and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines, ensuring high data quality, integrity, and availability across our data ecosystem. The ideal candidate will optimize data storage solutions, collaborate closely with stakeholders, and implement strong data security and governance practices to support downstream analytics and business use cases.

Skills & experience

Experience in Big Data Analytics/Engineering: Minimum 3 years

• Experience in building complex SQL queries (e.g. CTEs, sub queries, pivot queries etc) using a

SQL development and work with large datasets.

• Deep understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, data warehousing concepts, and data

modelling tailored to financial data.

• Proficient in Python with experience in data analysis libraries like Pandas, NumPy, and SciPy for

statistical analysis and complex data manipulation.

• Automation scripting using Python for data pipeline orchestration, monitoring and error

handling.

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake data platform for data warehousing and analytics
• Proven experience in designing and building ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their data services.
• Strong analytical capability with an inclination for problem solving
• Excellent communication skills particularly written and verbal in English

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field;

Master’s preferred.

• Experience in Data Analytics and Management: Minimum 3 years

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive salary.
  Excellent career progression opportunities. Transportation to the office (up to 30kms). Casual, privilege and sick leave, plus your birthday off. Group medical insurance. Personal accident insurance. Life assurance. A range of additional flexible benefits to support personal wellbeing.