#One dog story the ascent windows#

We sat down with Nicki to find out more about her fascinating career journey. The former British triathlete found her feet in the tech industry, and has since been working on building her career, while being a role model for young girls. Not many people can say that they’re a former triathlete, now pursuing a career in the tech industry with Ascent – but Nicki Aitken definitely can.īe bold, brave, ambitious and believe in yourself, are the words of wisdom that Nicki Aitken, Partner Manager and Corporate, Social and Responsibility Ambassador at Ascent, offers to young girls. We value empathy in our colleagues, and it’s important you bring a growth mindset and a willingness to learn and adapt. You should be someone who is passionate about team collaboration and knowledge sharing, with the passion and drive to achieve goals and targets. You should be comfortable in a customer facing situation where you’ll need to communicate clearly and effectively in English – often with people who might not be as technically experienced, so good written and verbal English skills are important.

We work in Agile methodologies as a preference, so being comfortable working in this way is important.

#One dog story the ascent windows#

You’ll also be really familiar working with Linux or Windows operating systems and version control systems (Git). You’ll have experience working with data warehouse solutions, extracting and processing data in various ways using off-the-shelf tools and open-source tools.

Good experience in a general programming – ideally Python.

Capability in using Databricks, Snowflake and/or Spark.

Good knowledge of the Azure data engineering stack - Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, Azure Blob, Cosmos DB.

Proven role experience in developing ETL and data integration solutions.

We’re looking for people with good data engineering skills, and you’ll ideally bring with you: