Team – Data and Information Services
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth or London Office. Full-time hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Proven delivery of scalable data solutions
- Demonstrated expertise in modern data engineering practices
- Established capability in stakeholder engagement and cross-team collaboration
What this role is all about:
We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong technical expertise and excellent communication skills. You'll design and deliver scalable data solutions, work closely with stakeholders, and build trusted relationships across the business. You'll confidently share ideas, influence outcomes, support team development, and help shape the future of our data capabilities.
Key Actions
- Work closely with our Data Engineering team to deliver reliable, high-quality data that powers impactful data flows and predictive models, confidently contributing ideas and solutions along the way.
- Use a range of languages and tools to design, build and manage robust data pipelines across multiple systems, ensuring data is accessible, trusted and ready to drive decision-making.
- Play an active role in key technical discussions and decisions, helping to drive our outcome-focused SWAT approach and deliver meaningful results.
- Take the initiative to identify new opportunities for data acquisition and uncover ways to generate greater value from existing data assets.
- Collaborate effectively with Data Science, Analytics, Architecture and wider technology teams to design, build, test and maintain scalable, high-performing data environments.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of GDPR principles and confidently raise concerns or challenge decisions where appropriate to ensure compliance and best practice.
- Bring genuine curiosity for emerging technologies, a passion for continuous learning, and a keen interest in understanding and supporting the Vitality business.
- Support, mentor and share knowledge with fellow Data Engineers, helping to create a collaborative culture where everyone can grow and succeed.
- Actively listen to both technical and business stakeholders, building strong relationships and communicating complex concepts clearly, confidently and effectively.
- Proactively identify potential challenges and risks, taking ownership to shape practical solutions that build trust, drive innovation and deliver outstanding outcomes.
What do you need to thrive?
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Systems, Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 3+ years’ experience across Business Intelligence, data warehousing, data management and ETL.
- Strong experience delivering data solutions within BI warehouses and/or data lake environments across both on-premise and cloud platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Big Data technologies, data ingestion and streaming.
- Confident working with data lakes and data visualisation tools, including semantic modelling.
- Strong understanding of data architecture principles and best practices.
- Passionate about engaging with stakeholders and collaborating across teams to deliver successful outcomes.
- A passion for sharing knowledge, supporting colleagues and contributing to a collaborative team culture.
So, what’s in it for you?
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
- Be there for you when you need us
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.
We’re incredibly proud to be recognised for the culture we've created — recently being named one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work 2026, and in 2024 we were delighted to be awarded Top 10 Places to Work in the Sunday Times Awards.
Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.
We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.
Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.
Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Vitality’s approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
