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Location: Birmingham Job Type: Contract Industry: Business Transformation Job reference: BBBH416595_1751901650 Posted: about 4 hours ago

Role Title:Data Engineer
Duration:contract to run until 31/10/2025
Location:Birmingham, Hybrid
Rate:up to £414 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Key Skills/ requirements

Strong DevOps engineering background CICD pipeline Git / Github Github actions / hooks Jenkins SonarQube Linux, e.g. Redhat Groovy / Bash / Python scripts Nexus Good understanding of Python library and application development Dependency management and package management, e.g. Poetry, pip Pandas and numpy API, e.g. Flask, Dash IDE (Pycharm, VsCode) and remote development Good understanding of Data engineering ETL / ELT pipeline Spark Airflow SQL / no-SQL Delta lake Parquet Avro Partitioning Starburst S3 bucket Postgres MLFlow Experience in Cloud and Containerization GCP / Internal cloud Docker / Kubernetes Argo CD Monitoring tooling, e.g. ELK Service Mesh, e.g. Istio Experience in secrets management, e.g. Vault Good understanding of networking, security and operating system TCP/IP DNS SSH SSL/TLS Encryption and tokenization CPU and memory management Experience of supporting Big Data infrastructure Hadoop cluster Spark cluster JDK/JVM Cloudera Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills Take ownership and able to work independently Able to work under high pressure and in fast-paced environment. Good at documentation and knowledge sharing Able to communicate and work with multi-region / multi-cultural teams
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

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