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Our purpose is to make great financial decision making a breeze for everyone, and that purpose drives us every day.
It’s why we’re on a mission to create an automated quoting engine, with the simplest of experiences, wrapped in a brand everyone loves!
We change lives by making it simple to switch and save money. So, when it comes to getting a better deal, it’s never been more blindingly obvious why you would choose Compare the Market.

We’d love you to be part of our journey.
At Compare the Market our Data Engineering team is at the heart of everything that we do. The team manages and works on multiple streams and projects that have a high impact and importance for the business. This role will sit within our Data Engineering Hub team, which is split into multiple teams. We are a platform team that focuses on building modern data capabilities, operational excellence, and supporting others when working with our extensive data platform and streaming architecture.

As a Staff Engineer for Compare the Market, you will assume a key position providing architectural expertise and guidance that enables the vision of the overall solution to be delivered.

You will use your knowledge of the architectural configuration of your product area to influence decisions about what tools and technologies will enhance our service offering.

This is a technical role, your enthusiasm for exploring new technology and tools will be valued in this team along with your desire to guide others. You will have a deep understanding of the services in your area of the business and how you contribute to the customer success and positive commercial outcomes. You will ensure that we maintain our standards of engineering excellence, both within your business area and as part of a community of engineering, contributing to CtM wide standards, processes, and tools.

Everyone is welcome.
We have a culture of creativity. We approach our work passionately, improve constantly and celebrate our wins at every turn. We are an inclusive workplace, and our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic, whole selves to work. Everyone is welcome. Be you.
This means we’re excited to hear from people with a range of skills, experiences, and ideas. We don’t expect you to tick all the boxes but would love you to hear what makes you great for this role.

What we want to see from you:
As an experienced individual, you will be able to demonstrate involvement in the delivery of applications that underpin business or consumer facing products, and the part you played in improving their quality.

• Has a broad impact across teams in their domain, raises the bar for engineering excellence across those teams.
• Creates alignment across teams in their domain ensuring that best practice and architectural decisions are well understood within the domain.
• Capable of setting short to medium term strategies for our services and products, creating designs and roadmaps to communicate and plan change over time in a domain’s estate. Is able to align key stakeholders with these strategies.
• Provides direction, advice, and guidance on the approach to delivering services and products. Collaborates with and guides other engineers in assessing and evaluating new technologies within the domain. Reduces complexity within our software, processes, and tools.
• Advocate of engineering excellence within the domain, contributes to technological wide engineering standards, processes and tools.
• Contributes to the assessment and adoption of standards, processes and tools across the whole of CtM
• Provides technical input into planning and business case definitions.
• Takes a risk-based approach to decision making, guides other engineers in taking the same approach, makes sure that our risk controls are considered when delivering software.
• Understands the regulatory framework in which CtM operates and how it applies to their role and other engineering roles.

Essential Skills:

• Strong experience in Data Engineering.
• Experience working closely with engineering teams, setting a technical vision and working together to achieve it.
• Proven experience of making technical and architectural decisions that meet customer and commercial needs.
• Self-starter, strong influencing, and negotiation skills, able to manage non-technical and technical stakeholder relationships.

Desirable Skills:

• Advocate of lean principles, keen to code and perform research and development into new technologies.
• Active learner, keeping up to date with developments in your technical and professional area of expertise.
• Structured approach to governance and standards and eagerness to further engineering excellence at CtM
• Experience with Streaming technologies in particular Kafka, is an advantage.

Our people bring our purpose to life.
We champion a culture of innovation and challenge. We have over 300 tech experts across our teams all using the latest tools and technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Java, Scala, Python, .Net Core, Node.js and MongoDB.

There’s something for everyone.
We’re a place of opportunity. You’ll have the tools and autonomy to drive your own career, supported by a team of amazingly talented people.
And then there’s our benefits. For us, it’s not just about a competitive salary and hybrid working, we care about what matters to you. From a generous holiday allowance and private healthcare to an electric car scheme and paid development, wellbeing, and CSR days, we’ve pretty much got you covered!
'We are committed to offering equal chances to you throughout the application process, so if you require any special adjustments to be made, please let us know. We will work with you to make any appropriate arrangements.’

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