What is the opportunity?

Join our Data Engineering team in this exciting time as we implement Bank of Ireland's new cloud based data lake, take advantage of AI opportunities and transition workloads to that new Enterprise Data Lake platform.

As Senior Test Engineer, you will be responsible for technical leadership, hands-on engineering and mentoring of Test engineers within our Data Engineering function. We work in agile delivery model to engineer high quality solutions for both our Enterprise Data Warehouse and Enterprise Data Lake platforms. You will gain experience across both platforms building integrated data pipelines.

We work in a very collaborative environment with a learning culture and you will use your experience to help guide future development across the team, the tools we use, help drive automation and introduce new and exciting engineering patterns and frameworks!

In this Role, you will

Provide technical leadership and guidance to other Test engineers
Take the lead in enabling the testing of complex data flows and process's using our Enterprise Data Warehouse & Data Lake
Make decisions on Test frameworks, tooling and patterns
Advocate and drive Automation and the adoption of processes such as BDD/TDD
Solve complex technical problems and provide creative solutions from your experience or through a rational problem solving process
Work with the Business to implement Test Strategies and complete Test Plans
Drive evolution and adoption of Test standards, best practice and processes across platforms and teams

What Will Make You Stand Out

We are seeking a leader with enthusiasm and a growth mentality who prioritises collaboration with others. You are proactive to achieve the necessary outcome while improving processes, people and tooling along the way!

You have a proven track record (7+ years) as Test Engineer in the Data Lake or Data Warehouse domain. You have knowledge of Data Lake, Cloud Technologies and Architecture, preferably AWS.

Further technical knowledge and/or experience in the below are necessary to apply:

Demonstrable experience of testing complex data Pipelines and data flows
Agile Testing practices and guidelines, including Defect Management
Proficiency in SQL, Python, Pyspark
Ability to define and recommend right sized Test data and automate test data creation/refresh
Promote test data literacy and support evangelise test data reuse
Test automation using tools and frameworks ( e.g. pyTest, BDD etc)
Proficient in various database technologies (Teradata, Oracle Big data/Hadoop)
Testing event driven systems with tools like Kafka, NiFi, Flink, Spark Streaming
Familiarity with AI concepts and willingness to explore LLM's, Generative AI and Machine Learning
Certified in ISTQB Advanced
Certification in Cloud (preferably in AWS)
Certification in Agile methodology

Experience with any of the following will help you to stand out but is not necessary in order to apply for this role;

Understanding of REST APIs and Testing
Cloudera Data Platform and appropriate Cloudera certifications
The ability to derive and share Data-Driven insights with Business and Technical teams
The ability of identifying and introducing process optimisations

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More About The team

Our growing and exciting Data Engineering team provides the engineering services for the Group's Enterprise Data Warehouse and Enterprise Data Lake. We sit within the Group Data & Analytics Office which is the core team for all things data in the bank.

We deliver the data elements to support Digital, Customer, Regulatory and other change initiatives that drive the Group's transformation agenda.

We have fully embraced agile software engineering and a DevOps mentality and operate in a highly collaborative team environment.

We work a hybrid model, with our primary location in Dublin.

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

Customer Focused - Self
One Group, one team - Self
Champion Transformation - Self
Manage Risk - Self
Accountable - Self

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

We`re on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

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