Software Engineer - Data Analytics

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Job Title: Data Engineer

Rate: £450 per day inside ir35

Duration: 6 months

Location: Telford/hybrid - (2 days on site)

SC security clearance is required for this role

Job Description:

You should have experience as a Software Engineer delivering within large scale data analytics solutions and the ability to operate at all stages of the software engineering lifecycle, as well as some experience in the following;

Awareness of Devops culture and modern engineering practices
Experience of Agile Scrum based delivery
Proactive in nature, personal drive, enthusiasm, willingness to learn
Excellent communications skills including stakeholder management Have experience in some of the following technologies:

ETL toolset (Talend, Pentaho, SAS DI, Informatica etc)
Database (Oracle, RDS, Redshift, MySQL, Hadoop, Postgres, etc)
Job Scheduling toolset (Job Scheduler, TWS, etc)
Programming and scripting languages (PL/SQL, SQL, Unix, Java, Python, Hive, HiveQL, HDFS, Impala, etc) Must have knowledge of these tools:

ALM Tooling (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
CI/CD toolsets (Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible)
Data virtualisation tools (Denodo)
Reporting (Pentaho BA, Power BI, Business Objects, Grafana) If you are interested in this role or wish to apply, please feel free to submit your CV

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