Data Engineer

Essential Employment
Newbury
2 months ago
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Data Engineer needed in Newbury Paying £271.57 per day ref 5289648


Full time hours on a temporarybasis


Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using SSIS in production environments.
  • Engineer high‑quality data integration solutions following best‑practice patterns including incremental loads, CDC, SCD, data quality rules, idempotency, and error handling.
  • Manage and optimise Microsoft SQL Server environments (2016), ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • Build and maintain dimensional models, relational schemas, and analytical data structures (Kimball approach preferred).
  • Support the full project management life cycle, including requirements gathering, technical design, documentation, testing, deployment, and post‑release support.
  • Deliver application support, maintenance, and root‑cause analysis across critical data and reporting systems.
  • Implement and enhance data governance practices, including metadata definition, cataloguing, lineage tracking, and quality frameworks.
  • Develop and schedule workflows using SQL Server Agent, SSISDB deployment pipelines, SSIS logging, and/or orchestration tools.
  • Produce high‑quality technical documentation for processes, data flows, and solution components.

If you are interested in the role, please email your CV the reference number.


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