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Data Engineer - Edinburgh
£60,000 - 72,000
London Road 69, Edinburgh
£60,000 - 72,000
Requirements
Must:
- Active SC Clearance (mandatory)
- Strong experience designing and maintaining data pipelines, data warehouses, and data platforms
- Solid knowledge of DataOps practices, including CI/CD, containerisation, and workflow orchestration
- Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT frameworks and big data tools (e.g. Spark, Airflow, Hive)
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, and SQL
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL database design and optimisation
- Strong understanding of batch and streaming data processing
- Degree in a STEM-related field; Masters degree desirable
- Data engineering certifications (e.g. IBM Certified Data Engineer) are advantageous
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and support scalable data infrastructure, pipelines, and architectures
- Orchestrate ingestion and storage of raw data into structured and unstructured data solutions
- Implement reliable, automated, and well-tested data ingestion and processing workflows
- Build and maintain batch and real-time data processing systems
- Manage and optimise performance, reliability, scalability, and security of data platforms
- Support data governance, quality, and compliance requirements
- Prepare data pipelines for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
- Collaborate closely with data scientists, architects, IT teams, and business stakeholders
- Identify opportunities for new data acquisition and improved data utilisation
- Monitor, manage, and enhance data quality and reliability through automated tooling
Description
We are a dynamic company located in either Edinburgh or Luton, offering a hybrid or onsite work environment as required. We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our team on a contract basis, and we offer a competitive rate of £500 - £600 per day inside IR35. Our team is focused on designing, building, deploying, and maintaining robust data platforms and pipelines in a secure environment, ensuring that our data operations infrastructure is optimised for performance, reliability, scalability, and security.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 97 different Data Engineer jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good Data Engineers.