Job Description

An award-winning technology company is looking for a Data Engineer to join their fast-paced, exciting organisation. The job is remote with the occasional day spent in the Gloucester office. Their breakthrough technology offers an innovative platform for customers.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Data Engineer, you will help design, document, build, maintain, and improve the next generation of data lead technology solutions. With a sound knowledge of Data Engineering, you will be creating and utilising the latest and best technologies to provide an optimum service for customers and be a key contributor to the technology roadmap.

BENEFITS

With the success of their innovative solution, they are looking to expand globally. Don’t miss out on being a part of a fast-moving tech environment and flourish in this start-up business. You’ll have a great work-life balance with 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)!

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Data Engineer your key duties will include:

• Guiding the data architecture strategy; identifying and implementing opportunities to better link various data sources, with suppliers and partners, with the UK and abroad
• Collaborating with teams to build integrations ensuring multiple systems can interface seamlessly
• Preparing and implementing plans for ETL (extract, transform, and load) procedures and architectures
• Developing and maintaining dashboards and reports to provide performance insights
• Developing data models to enable end users to effectively analyse data
• Monitoring and tuning data loads and queries to ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness
• Analysing large databases and implementing appropriate optimisation
• Taking a brief and turning it into a technical plan and functional specification
• Demonstrating your code and solutions work with ‘show and tells’ and documented repeatable tests
• Working with the development team to maintain and improve the CI/CD pipeline
• Contributing to the future technology road map with new ideas, tools and techniques
• Maintaining the core AWS service and applying best practices

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

To be considered for the role of Data Engineer, you must have:

• Experience managing a data warehouse and directing the improvement of data management and expansion across multiple geographic zones
• Experience of Agile development, CI/CD pipeline, DevOps, Git and version control best practices
• Proficiency in SQL including a solid understanding of how to optimise query performance
• Python coding skills including knowledge of Jupyter notebooks and AWS SageMaker
• Experience developing APIs and managing environments including:

SQL databases: MySQL, Athena, MSSQL, PostgreSQL

Data Lake storage solutions: S3, AWS Glue, Athena

AWS data solutions: Glue, Athena, Redshift, QuickSight, Lambda, EC2, RDS

NEXT STEPS

If you’re interested in becoming a Data Engineer, apply today with your current CV. Our team will review your application to see if it’s a match and get in touch to learn more about you. If you aren't contacted within 7 days, please assume your application was not selected.

Why wait? Don’t miss out!