Data Engineer

Ipswich or London

£45,000 – £65,000

Our client, an exciting Data Analytics and Machine Learning focused consultancy is recruiting for a Data Engineer to join their expanding team.  You will be responsible for helping propose and implement solutions primarily based around AWS, including designing and implementing ETL tasks, identifying key data relationships. The role will involve working with colleagues, both IT and business, to help define the long term strategy.

The Job role

The role will involve building data pipelines that allow data to be used by cross functional agile teams, that contain data scientists for ML. Data Analysis of source data structures is required to enable the most efficient loading and transformation patterns to be designed. There will be a focus on automating tasks and continuous integration based on delivery.

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Essential Skills:

Cloud environments, AWS as strong preference

ETL, ELT, data migration and cleansing.

Data Lakes, data analytics and working with large data sets.

Relational databases.

Agile working.

The ability to work independently yet seek advice where required

Committed to delivering excellence for customers

Essential experience:

Hands on experience with AWS, building and configuring environments.

Familiarity with variety of Databases, incl. structured RDBMS.

Experience in analysing and cleansing data using a variety of tools and techniques.

Experience in working with a variety of data formats, JSON, XML, CSV, Parquet etc.

Experience with building and maintaining data dictionaries / meta-data.

Experience of Linux and cloud environments.

Using patterns for cloud data warehouse solution (e.g. ELT rather than ETL)

Desirable experience:

Hands on experience with AWS Athena, Glue and S3

Familiarity with ETL tools (Matillion, Alteryx, SSIS or similar)

Familiarity with AWS data lake related components

Familiarity with large data techniques (Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark etc.)

Familiarity with providing data via a micro service API.

Experience with Azure Data Lake components

AWS Certifications (particularly Solution Architect Associate and Big Data Speciality)

Machine Learning experience or exposure.

Data Visualisation Technologies (e.g. Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Looker, QlikSense)

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