Data Engineer

Sellick Partnership

Wigan, United Kingdom

3 months ago

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Data Engineer

Permanent

£70 - £80k plus annual bonus scheme (up to 10%)

Hybrid working (typically 2 days working from home)

Wigan

Sellick Partnership are delighted to be supporting a growing manufacturing organisation with the recruitment of a Data Engineer - a brand new role to the business!

The business have been a market leader in their field for over 40 years with strong UK and European presence in the market.

The Data Engineer will be responsible for mapping, building and maintaining scalable systems, infrastructure and pipelines that collect, store and transport raw data. You will also work closely with the Head of IT and other technical teams to support current and new services following DevOps principles.

Responsibilities:

Lead on data-driven projects ensuring effective project management and delivery on time.

Design and build a scalable, modern cloud-based data platform, including data lake, data ingestion pipelines, transformation and data modelling.

Evaluation of current data setup to identify gaps and improvements and where needed optimising or rebuilding the data and analytics infrastructure.

Ensure that data analytics, governance and architecture practices are scalable and robust.

Establishing raw data flows that support operational and reporting insight.

What we are looking for:

Proven experience in a Data Engineer/ strategic data role.

Strong working knowledge of Query Optimisation, DAX, Power BI.

Hands on experience with either Amazon AWS and Azure data platforms with also Business Central experience being beneficial.

Experience integrating multiple systems into a central cloud-based data platform.

Excellent technical documentation skills.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bring new ideas, challenge when needed and collaborate.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to take up a newly created pivotal role for this growing organisation with the opportunity to map out, design and implement their cloud based data infrastructure. Please apply by Friday 20th March to be considered.

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website

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