Data Engineer

Stevenage
3 months ago
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Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Hours: 37 hours per week

Do you want to join a business, who value inclusivity, a three-time gold investor in people award winner, an advocate of supporting women in engineering and developing their people to be the best they can be?

As a data engineer specialising in generative AI; this role will see you working in a developing international and transversal structure. You will have the responsibility to evaluate, build and maintain data sets for internal customers whilst ensuring they can be maintained.

The opportunity:

The business is looking for a Data Engineer to join an Information Management GenAI delivery Office, who will be able to evaluate design, deploy, improve and support the companies data sets.

The Data Engineer will ensure data pipelines are designed to be resilient, secure and responsive. You will use your data engineering expertise to collaborate with different internal customers regarding their data, ensuring they are optimised and secured for their needs.

The Data Engineer will provide knowledge in data management and data quality to guarantee compliance to company data governance. A key part of this role is keeping up to date with new technology, where you will provide insight on a technology roadmap and deliver cutting edge solutions to the internal customers.

Benefits of working here:

  • State of the art technology & innovation

  • External learning and development encouraged

  • Light and airy university type campus

  • Friendly environment

    • Restaurant, On site Medical Centre, Parking / Easy Access to train station, Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop, Sports & Social Club and More

      Skills Required:

  • Ideally degree qualified in a STEM or Data Engineering subject

  • With experience in the following subject, technologies and tool:

    • SQL technologies skills (e.g. MS SQL, Oracle)

    • NoSQL technologies skills (e.g. MongoDB, InfluxDB, Neo4J)

    • Data exchange and processing skills (e.g. ETL, ESB, API)

    • Development (e.g. Python) skills

    • Big data technologies knowledge (e.g. Hadoop stack)

    • Knowledge in NLP (Natural Language Processing)

    • Knowledge in OCR (Object Character Recognition)

    • Knowledge in Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) would be advantageous

    • Experience in containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker) would be advantageous

  • Knowledge in the industrial and / or defence sector would be advantageous

    You will need to obtain UK Security Clearance for this role. This will require you to be a full UK Citizen. Some restrictions may apply. Dual nationality is not permitted for this role.

    Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment

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