Data Engineer

Data Engineer £50,000 – £60,000 – Hybrid

My client, industry leading EdTech organisation are currently looking to expand their Data team!

become a Data Engineer with vast progression opportunities, where your work is all for a great cause!

Requirements

• Thrive in a fast paced and dynamic environment
• Exceptional SQL skills including an appreciation for performance tuning on a variety of database engines
• Data pipeline development experience in Python (especially using pandas, parsing API responses, posting data to API’s etc.)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• An appreciation for the big picture while delivering short/mid-term solutions
• Experience of building data warehouses, enterprise data warehouses or data lakes with ETL pipelines
• Experience with AWS tools including Glue, Lambda, S3, RDS, is preferred
• An understanding of CICD concepts including having a working knowledge of GitHub
• Understanding of different data warehouse architectures is preferred (especially dimensional modelling and data vault 2.0 architectures)

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines written in Python and SQL and ran on AWS/Snowflake
• Taking ownership of data quality within projects
• Managing and educating a range of stakeholders when gathering requirements and delivering data projects
• Building effective and collaborative relationships with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Reacting to change within the business in a positive and constructive way
• Documenting processes and data pipelines
• Maintaining a backlog of future improvements/features in Jira