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Big important announcement - new job!
Jun. 4th, 2018 11:52 amIt's all official now, so I can announce this publicly - I have accepted an amazing job offer!
I'll be working in central London for a travel company as a data engineer. I start on July 30, so I've got a couple of weeks to get settled (and decompress and visit people) before I need to start.
The job is pretty much everything I wanted in a job. Great tech stack (Google cloud platform, most of their data warehousing is on BigQuery, lots of other nice tech), good people, interesting new industry. I'll be doing a mixture of data analysis, building dashboards/self-serve tools, revamping their ETL etc. so it's going to be an interesting role. I'll be their first data engineer (their data work has been done by people as side projects and "when there's ten minutes spare" until now) so there's going to be lots of room to shape the role and really make an impact. They have a dedicated training/conference budget for each person, Friday afternoons are reserved for non-project work (learning stuff, building a new tool because you think it'll be good to do - whatever seems like a good use of the time), and they seem to really invest in their people.
And the compensation package is pretty nice, too :-)
I told Boss S this morning and he's been really supportive and lovely, so that's brilliant. We're going to tell the team on Thursday in our regular team meeting, and then everything will be out in the open properly. My last day in my current role will be June 29.
But guys, I've found a super awesome new job! I'm not jumping off a cliff into the unknown when I move - there's a job waiting there for me! They're happy to wait until July 30 for me to start and they're actually excited and impressed by me? It's such a weird and amazing feeling. The work sounds interesting. The people I've spoken to have been lovely and I get a good feeling about working with them. The office is in a great location for my commute and they're flexible about start/finish times, plus they support working from home once a week.
And I get really really cool toys :-)
This whole "move back to England" plan is turning out to be an even better decision than I'd expected. I'll be back with my family, back home, and now I'm getting to make a fantastic career move, too. I'm so thrilled about all this :-)
(And yes, it's the job where I thought I'd screwed up the interview. Impostor syndrome is real, guys.)
I'll be working in central London for a travel company as a data engineer. I start on July 30, so I've got a couple of weeks to get settled (and decompress and visit people) before I need to start.
The job is pretty much everything I wanted in a job. Great tech stack (Google cloud platform, most of their data warehousing is on BigQuery, lots of other nice tech), good people, interesting new industry. I'll be doing a mixture of data analysis, building dashboards/self-serve tools, revamping their ETL etc. so it's going to be an interesting role. I'll be their first data engineer (their data work has been done by people as side projects and "when there's ten minutes spare" until now) so there's going to be lots of room to shape the role and really make an impact. They have a dedicated training/conference budget for each person, Friday afternoons are reserved for non-project work (learning stuff, building a new tool because you think it'll be good to do - whatever seems like a good use of the time), and they seem to really invest in their people.
And the compensation package is pretty nice, too :-)
I told Boss S this morning and he's been really supportive and lovely, so that's brilliant. We're going to tell the team on Thursday in our regular team meeting, and then everything will be out in the open properly. My last day in my current role will be June 29.
But guys, I've found a super awesome new job! I'm not jumping off a cliff into the unknown when I move - there's a job waiting there for me! They're happy to wait until July 30 for me to start and they're actually excited and impressed by me? It's such a weird and amazing feeling. The work sounds interesting. The people I've spoken to have been lovely and I get a good feeling about working with them. The office is in a great location for my commute and they're flexible about start/finish times, plus they support working from home once a week.
And I get really really cool toys :-)
This whole "move back to England" plan is turning out to be an even better decision than I'd expected. I'll be back with my family, back home, and now I'm getting to make a fantastic career move, too. I'm so thrilled about all this :-)
(And yes, it's the job where I thought I'd screwed up the interview. Impostor syndrome is real, guys.)
