Are you ready to shape the backbone of a data‑driven organisation? NewDay are looking for a Data Engineer to help us design, build, and evolve the core pipelines and platforms that power analytics, reporting, and sophisticated data science across our business.
Why this role matters
You’ll play a central role in ensuring data flows reliably and efficiently at scale. You will directly enable faster insights, smarter decision‑making, and a resilient data ecosystem that supports everything from operational reporting to ground breaking modelling.
How you'll contribute
Developing and improving ingestion and transformation pipelines using technologies such as Spark, Scala, Python, AWS, DBT, and Snowflake
Owning and improving the organisation’s Data Lake environment, ensuring it remains robust, scalable, and future‑ready
Owning ETL processing, table refreshes, defect resolution, and other BAU activities
Continuously optimising performance through concurrency, multi‑threading, automation, and best‑practice engineering patterns
Working within Agile delivery frameworks to ship high‑quality, cloud‑native data solutions via CI/CD
Integrating data from multiple sources and solving sophisticated data challenges with creativity.
We're looking for these essential skills
Strong problem‑solving skills and a passion for engineering clean, reliable, high‑performance data solutions
Hands‑on experience with modern data technologies and cloud platforms
A focus continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence
The ability to collaborate across teams and contribute to the evolution of an enterprise‑wide data platform
The impact you’ll make
Your work will strengthen the foundation of our entire data landscape. By improving reliability, reducing manual intervention, and accelerating time to insight, you’ll help unlock new opportunities for analytics, innovation, and strategic growth.
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At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics or identities. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process.
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What We Do
At NewDay, our business is focused on a single, clear and defining purpose: to help people move forward with credit. We provide nearly 4 million customers with responsible access to credit, underpinned by best-in-class customer service and exceptional user experience. Our in-house, highly scalable digital platform alongside our proprietary credit decisioning capability unlocks our competitive advantage. Our broad credit product offering enables instalment finance, BNPL, 0% finance and carded and digital revolving credit. We operate multiple direct-to-consumer products and a range of credit solutions with some of the UK’s most loved brands. Our underwriting capability and experience allow us to responsibly say yes to more UK customers making us a merchant partner of choice. We partner to harness the power of data to drive commerce across the UK, creating value at scale.
