Contract Senior Data Engineer (Ingestion) at Toyota Connected Europe, Greater London, £Contract Rate

Senior Data Engineer - Ingestion

Hybrid Working (6 days per month onsite in Farringdon)

Who are we?

Toyota Connected Europe wants to create a better world through connected mobility for all. We are a new company created to bring big data and a customer focus into all aspects of the mobility experience, so everyone’s experience is more personal, convenient, fun and safe. We create and enable technologies to delight and simplify the lives of everyone who use our products and empower them to think of and use our services in new ways.

You will be joining us at the beginning of Toyota Connected Europe’s journey of building our team and products. We are building teams to inspire, innovate and build technologies and products that are used by millions of people from all walks of life. We want every member of our team to live and breathe the start-up culture of Toyota Connected Europe and feel and act like an owner everyday. This is an opportunity to have an immediate impact and voice: what you create today, you will see being used tomorrow.

About the role:

The Data Engineering team enables and manages the ingestion of low latency, high volume car telemetry data that powers our engineering and data science teams to build smart and insightful data products. We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join the team who will have a key role in the design, development, implementation and documentation of large-scale, distributed data applications, systems and services. You will engineer data pipelines that will consume vehicle telemetry data to build insightful data services and products. The features you build will power driving experiences across the world.

Our Tech Stack:

Please note that you do not need to be familiar with all of them as we acknowledge that in Technology there always is a learning curve.

Cloud Providers:

• Primarily AWS, although we still have some legacy services running on Azure)

Languages:

• Java 11+ (ESSENTIAL)
• Kotlin (Legacy)

Messaging Stacks:

• Kafka (ESSENTIAL)
• Pulsar – slowly migrating those back to Kafka

Deployment Environment:

• Kubernetes (EKS)

Frameworks:

• Spring (ESSENTIAL)
• Apache Flink
• Kafka Streams
• Apache Storm (mostly legacy)

Repositories and CI/CD:

• Gitlab
• Gitlab CI/CD
• Data Stores
• MongoDB

About you:

• Expertise in one of the major real time data processing frameworks, such as Flink or Kafka Streams
• Experience of building event driven and/or streaming data services, IoT domain would be great but not essential
• Strong programming experience in Java (11+) and show a sense of ownership and pride in your code; make us believe you will excel. Experience with testing frameworks JUnit5, Mockito or Spring Integration
• Strong database skills and experience is required, we have NoSQL databases as well as relational databases in use often with large data volumes.
• Strong data modelling concepts and principles having extensive experience of building data architectures consolidating multiple complex sources
• Experience of modern software and data engineering patterns, including those used in highly scalable, distributed, and resilient systems.
• Excellent knowledge of and experience working with APIs (designing with Open API is desirable) and web services, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing (BDD, Performance, Security), Kubernetes and cloud native practices, containerized workloads with tools such as Docker
• Experience developing microservices-based architectures, including distributed messaging patterns
• Experience developing and delivering systems on at least one major public cloud provider; preferably AWS

Equal Opportunities, Inclusion & Diversity We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive group of talent with a broad range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities and will give full and fair consideration to all applicants. We know that flexibility is key to success and our people work flexibly in many ways, so if this is important to you, please let us know. If you have a disability or any other additional need that requires consideration, accommodation or adjustment to the role or recruitment process, please do let us know.