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Senior Data Engineer

Qodea
Edinburgh
1 week ago
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Qodea Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Qodea Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Qodea is Europe's leading Google Cloud specialist consultancy. We're a team that's energised by innovation and delivering exceptional results for our clients. We deliver cutting edge solutions across data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure or security that drive digital transformation and enable our customers to scale, modernise and thrive.

In joining Qodea, you'll work alongside specialists in their field and would have access to mentoring, industry-recognised training and certifications, and personalised development plans to support your career growth.

We're always looking for motivated and energetic people who are eager to learn and grow, so if you want to supercharge your career, join Qodea!

What you'll do:

Develop and maintain automated data processing pipelines using Google Cloud:

  • Design, build, and maintain data pipelines to support data ingestion, ETL, and storage
  • Build and maintain automated data pipelines to monitor data quality and troubleshoot issues

Implement and maintain databases and data storage solutions:

  • Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in big data and data engineering
  • Ensure data quality, accuracy, and completeness

Implement and enforce data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality and accuracy:

  • Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to design and optimise data models for analytical and reporting purposes
  • Develop and maintain data models to support analytics and reporting
  • Monitor and maintain data infrastructure to ensure availability and performance


Requirements

What you'll bring:

  • Experience in performing a technical leadership role on projects and contributing to technical decision making during in-flight projects
  • A track record of being involved in a wide range of projects with various tools and technologies, and solving a broad range of problems using your technical skills
  • Demonstrable experience of utilising strong communication and stakeholder management skills when engaging with customers
  • Significant experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
  • Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or Hive
  • Familiarity with data warehousing and ETL tools such as Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, or Apache Airflow
  • Proficiency in Python and at least one other programming language such as Java, or Scala
  • Willingness to mentor more junior members of the team
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and in a team environment

Desirable Skills:

  • Certified in Google Cloud (Professional level) or equivalent certification with another cloud provider
  • Experience working within a consulting organisation

How you'll grow:

As a Senior Data Engineer with Qodea, you'll be involved in projects to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure that enable the efficient processing and analysis of large, complex data sets.

You'd join a highly collaborative, creative and supportive team working to deliver solutions that surpass our customers expectations, enabling them to utilise cutting-edge tools and technologies to derive value and insights from their data.

We're a dedicated Google Cloud Partner, which means that you'd be working on projects involving GCP services. Previous experience of GCP is not essential, but we'd expect you to have experience of one of the major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure or GCP).

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Private healthcare scheme
  • Company pension
  • Death in Service - 4x annual salary
  • 10 paid learning days per year
  • Regular opportunities for industry recognised training and certifications
  • Opportunities to develop within a fast growing-tech business with ambitious growth and impact goals
  • Generous annual leave policy and your birthday off (36 days inclusive of bank holidays)
  • Length of service awards
  • Sabbatical leave for employees over 5 years service
  • Market leading parental leave policies
  • Company events - opportunities to meet colleagues you don't see every day

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all. If you feel we can improve in any way, please reach out to our careers team via email at or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.Seniority level

  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment typeFull-time

Job function

  • Job functionInformation Technology
  • IndustriesIT Services and IT Consulting

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