Data Engineer

Career Moves
Southend-on-Sea
3 months ago
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Data Engineer

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Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Location: UK, London
Length: 12 months
Rate: £37.02 - £40.38 p/h (Inside IR35)
Hours: 9am-6pm (remote)

Role Brief

The main function of the Data Engineer is to develop, evaluate, test, and maintain architectures and data solutions within our organization. The typical Data Engineer executes plans, policies, and practices that control, protect, deliver, and enhance the value of the organization’s data assets.


Job Responsibilities:

  • Manage data engineering projects through the full cycle
  • Identify and underline business initiatives from a data engineering perspective
  • Design, construct, install, test, and maintain highly scalable data management systems
  • Ensure systems meet business requirements and industry practices
  • Design, implement, automate, and maintain large-scale enterprise data ETL processes
  • Build high-performance algorithms, prototypes, predictive models, and proof of concepts


Day-to-day tasks:

  • Develop the data infrastructure
  • Develop Python pipelines, and table data sets, exploring the logging to develop analytics data sets
  • Working on dashboard, and data visualization to create insights
  • Build high-performance algorithms, prototypes, predictive models, and proof of concepts
  • Big data volume is in billions so someone familiar with that volume
  • Model the data in a way it can be queried




Skills:

  • Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction
  • Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills
  • Collaborate with Software Engineers, Data Scientists & Product Managers on project goals



Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering, or related field required

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