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Data Engineer

Franklin Bates
Edinburgh
4 weeks ago
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Join a world-leading cybercrime SaaS organisation in an urgent, vital Data Engineer role to help build, improve and maintain their vast data estate which leveraging the data for problem-solving.


Our client is headquartered in the UK and, whilst being well-established with significant sector success behind them, serving the largest names globally across the banking and government spaces amongst others, they are very much in ‘scale up’ mode and are looking to advance their capabilities, increase the quality of their offering and evolve their platform.


Required experience for the Data Engineer role:


  • Strong background as a Data Engineer / Data Architect / DataOps Engineer with a strong focus on automation, security, performance and observability
  • Experience using OpenSearch or Elasticsearch based search engines to design and deploy webscale SaaS solutions in high-volume environments
  • Experience managing MongoDB clusters for high-availability and scalability
  • AWS managed data service experience and experience with AWS cost management and optimisation


You will be taking the reins on the data space at the organisation so need to be a confident engineer with a breadth of experience and ideas to bring to the table, with the ability to communicate and strategise with technical and non-technical teams effectively.


The package offered to the Data Engineer will consist of a salary of up to circa £90,000 with a fully remote working set up (expenses paid for when occasional travel to one of their offices is required), and benefits including a generous holiday allowance as well as additional paid days off for volunteering, private healthcare, enhanced parenting leave and more.


Franklin Bates is a leading IT recruitment consultancy specialising in Software Development, AI, Cybersecurity, Cloud, & Data. We provide high quality contract, interim and permanent IT professionals to a broad range of technology companies within the UK.

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