Data Engineer (AWS) - Sunderland - Hybrid - £60k - £70k

This is a great opportunity for an experienced data engineer with expertise in AWS to join an established company with continual growth year on year who are able to provide stability, L&D, and progression. The Data Engineer position will be a key role within the Data department. This role will report directly into the Lead Data Engineer, and will help build my clients data capability.

Salary & Benefits

£55k - £65k (depending on experience)
10% performance related bonus
Hybrid working (2 days in office, 3 from home)
Flexbile working hours
27 days annual leave
Options to buy and sell up to 5 days
Company contributory pension schemeRole & Responsibilities

Designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines to facilitate building data models that provide useful data and insights to key business stakeholders, external stakeholders and regulators
Working with Data Analysts in delivering an efficient data model to be used for analytics and reporting
Collaborating with immediate team and wider teams to support data queries and requests
Participate in team's Sprint ceremonies and commit to timely delivery of tasks / objectives
Working with key business stakeholders and analysts to gather data requirements
Defining and documenting key logical and physical data models
Produce and maintain a metadata repository for use within various departments across the business
Ensure that the principles of security-by-design and privacy-by-design are followedWhat do I need to apply

Experience managing and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Experience in Cloud Technologies (AWS prefered, Azure or GCP)
Experience in ETL, Orchestrator tools like Airflow, AWS Glue etc.
Understand the concepts and principles of data modelling.
Experience in modern data warehouse technologies like redshift, databricks etc
In depth SQL knowledge.
Streaming frameworks like Kafka, Kinesis etc
Experience with a broad range of technologies would be a huge advantage. Some of the tools / technologies we use are Python, git, dbt, Docker, SQL Server, AWS

My client have very limited interview slots and they are looking to fill this vacancy within the next 2 weeks. I have limited slots for 1st stage interviews next week so if you're interest, get in touch ASAP with a copy of your most up to date CV and email me at or call me on (phone number removed).

Please Note: This is a permanent role for UK residents only. This role does not offer Sponsorship. You must have the right to work in the UK with no restrictions. Some of our roles may be subject to successful background checks including a DBS and Credit Check.

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