Senior Data Engineer
Posted 2 days ago by Aspire Personnel Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Data Engineer involves supporting the delivery of a data transformation project by establishing a robust and scalable data platform. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure high-quality data integration and transformation processes. The contract is for 4-6 months with potential extensions based on project success. The role is primarily remote with some European travel required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for collecting, processing, and storing large datasets.
- Develop and optimize database systems, ensuring data integrity, performance, and security.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and provide support for analytics.
- Implement data integration and transformation processes (ETL) from various sources to ensure high-quality, accessible data.
Key Skills:
- Strong working knowledge of Azure Cloud Platforms or transferable skills from other cloud platforms.
- Experience using SQL for database management essential.
- Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, or Scala).
- Experience with data pipeline frameworks and ETL tools and familiarity with big data technologies.
- Understanding of version control principles and tools essential.
- Knowledge of data integration tools and languages (e.g., APIs, JSON, XML, Web Services) desirable.
- The ability to resolve complex and non-routine issues and identify improvements in the testing and validation of data accuracy.
- Enthusiasm to develop skills, take responsibility, and work within an ambitious and rapidly developing data team.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Data Engineer – Contract, London, remote (some European Travel) competitive day rate.
Key Responsibilities
This individual will be an enthusiastic Data Engineer to support the delivery of a data transformation. Working as part of a new team, you will work on establishing a robust and scalable data platform for the business. You will play a key role in driving the ambition to create a best-in-class data engineering function.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for collecting, processing, and storing large datasets.
- Develop and optimize database systems, ensuring data integrity, performance, and security.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and provide support for analytics.
- Implement data integration and transformation processes (ETL) from various sources to ensure high-quality, accessible data.
Role Requirements
- Strong working knowledge of Azure Cloud Platforms, or transferable skills from other cloud platforms
- Experience using SQL for database management essential
- Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, or Scala)
- Experience with data pipeline frameworks and ETL tools and familiarity with big data technologies
- Understanding of version control principles and tools essential
- Knowledge of data integration tools and languages (e.g., APIs, JSON, XML, Web Services) desirable
- The ability to resolve complex and non-routine issues and identify improvements in the testing and validation of data accuracy
- Enthusiasm to develop your skills, take responsibility and work within an ambitious and rapidly developing data teams.
This is a contract role for 4-6 months which will extend with new projects, if initial implementation successful.