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Apache Airflow: the workflow automation darling of the data world, born at Airbnb in 2014. It’s open-source, meaning free, but don’t let that fool you—it’s no walk in the park. Competing with the likes of Luigi, Prefect, and cloud-native solutions, Airflow's main draw is its DAG-based approach (Directed Acyclic Graphs), which gives you full control over complex pipelines. In other words, it’s a power tool for data engineers who love Python and have a thing for manually tweaking dependencies.
In its current state, Airflow dominates orchestration, especially in companies with mature data engineering teams. But beware: Airflow is highly flexible, which also means highly finicky. Miss one task or get the scheduling wrong, and your whole pipeline could come crashing down at 3 a.m. The UI is functional but looks like it escaped from 2015, and scalability? Well, you'll be tuning it yourself. It’s powerful but requires constant attention—like a temperamental race car.

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Business Intelligence Analyst @ harnham

GB | 2025-12-28 | GBP 0 - 45000 / year
A BI Analyst role in London offers a chance to influence strategic decisions in a growing financial services data team. The position's differentiator is its broad remit and potential for... read more »
BI, Analytics, Data Quality, Data Analytics, SQL, DataViz, Cloud Computing, Redshift, Azure, Airflow
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Senior Data Analyst (Marketing) @ iggroup

GB | 2025-12-28
IG Group's Senior Data Analyst (Marketing) offers ownership of marketing data across attribution, LTV, segmentation, and onboarding; you’ll build automated pipelines with DBT and Airflow, fuel... read more »
Marketing, Go, Analytics, SQL, dbt, Airflow, Amplitude, KPI, Management, DataViz, Looker
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The Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering

The Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering gives a holistic understanding of the analytics engineering lifecycle by integrating principles from both data analysis and engineering. It's a book that teaches concepts and best practices, not just tools and technologies.

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Senior Commercial Analyst - WISE Platform @ wiseaccount

GB | 2025-12-27 | GBP 60000 - 75000 / year
Wise Platform Senior Commercial Analyst: join the deal-flow analytics team and partner with Commercial and Delivery to drive growth through data. You’ll build scalable reporting models and data... read more »
Management, Analytics, KPI, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Git, Airflow, Python, Looker, DataViz, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy
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Senior Product Analytics Manager @ wiseaccount

GB | 2025-12-26 | GBP 100000 - 125000 / year
This role is a high-stakes opportunity for a senior product analytics manager at Wise, a global payments platform. The position requires deep technical proficiency in SQL, data pipelines, and... read more »
Analytics, SQL, Management, Snowflake, dbt, Git, Airflow, Python, KPI, Looker, Superset
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Senior Data Analyst @ drw

GB | 2025-12-25
The role at DRW is a high-impact, fast-paced data analyst position requiring expertise in financial data processing, cloud workflows, and data quality engineering. The job emphasizes hands-on data... read more »
Management, Data Quality, SQL, Cloud Storage, Airflow, PySpark, Pandas, Git, Parquet, Linux, Bash