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Close Brothers is a leading merchant banking group established in 1878, providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management services, and securities trading. We employ 3000 people, principally in the UK, and are one of the largest 250 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.Our activities are straightforward. We remain focused on markets and services we know and understand, developing leading positions and unrivalled expertise. Our approach is prudent and considered enabling us to grow sustainably, through all market conditions, building confidence among our depositors and investors. Our businesses have remained local as we continue to provide bespoke services, and developing long-term relationships ensuring our success in the future. We value our clients over everything else. What they do is important – they are the doers and makers of things, the wealth creators, the investors and the savers. We ensure our services meet their specific needs and invest to support them as they grow. These principles, founded in our past but applied to the modern world today, represent what we describe as ‘modern merchant banking’ – values that are embedded in our culture and that underpin everything we do. Our Business areas:Our Banking division provides lending to small businesses and individuals, with an emphasis on specialist finance. We also offer deposit taking services to UK businesses and individuals. In Securities, we provide trading services in the UK through Winterflood, a leading market-maker. Close Brothers Asset Management provides a range of financial advice, investment management and on-line investing services, helping clients to secure their financial future.www.closebrothers.comhttps://www.closebrothers.com/cookies-privacy Follow us on Twitter @CloseBrothersImage credit 'PA Images'
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Overall Summary
At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.
Join the Close Brothers Data Engineering team where you will leads on developing robust and agile data engineering and data modelling processes, advising on standards, methods, tools and techniques.
Working as part of the Data Engineering team, our ideal team member will have previous experience in a business intelligence / analytics environment with excellent prioritisation skills.
Responsibilities
Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity
Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements
Plans and drives the development of data engineering solutions ensuring that solutions balance functional and non-functional requirements
Investigates enterprise data requirements where there is some complexity and ambiguity
Plans own data modelling and design activities, selecting appropriate techniques and the correct level of detail for meeting assigned objectives
Leads the assessment, analysis, development, documentation and implementation of changes
Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk
Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews
WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF:
You have previous experience working in a business intelligence / analytics environment
You have experience of implementing various data platform architectures, data lakes and data warehouses
You are competent in the use of CDC and ETL / ELT tools such as HVR and Informatica
You demonstrate a high level of creativity, drive, innovation and initiative; a self-starter with a constant desire to learn
You approach problems systematically and objectively, analyses facts and evaluates options, draws sound conclusions
You collaborate openly and effectively across functions to deliver change
IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU:
Have a strong background in rectifications and customer harm treatment in remediation situations is highly desired. This position involves working with a virtual team, collaborating with cross-functional departments and third parties, managing business priorities, responding to regulatory outputs and ensuring the efficient and effective implementation of remediation strategies in which data is an integral theme and enabler
Have experience of implementing and supporting cloud data platforms such as Snowflake
Have Financial Services domain knowledge
We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at recruit.ssc@closebrothers.com or request a call back.
About Us
At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.
Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management services and securities trading. At Close Brothers we provide financial support and advice to small businesses and individuals in the UK. Our purpose is to help the people and businesses of Britain thrive over the long term.
To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://www.closebrothers.com/careers