Job description
Data Engineer - Remote Working - £85,000
We are looking for a Data Engineer to join a growing organization, who are a leading provider in delivering a variety of applications and services to support our omni-channel, interactive communication platform. They offer a friendly and flexible working environment that is currently 100% remote with occasional team meetups in the London or Northampton area.
The ideal candidate will have a previous background as a DBA, a senior developer, or a data scientist. Very good communication skills are essential, as is experience working with complex data at scale. Experience with a variety of types of modern database would be valuable, combined with the knowledge of operational challenges supporting these in a large cloud-based estate.
Key Responsibilities
** Develop the internal architecture with databases and reporting data
** Help evolve standards and best practices with data across the business
** Analyze data and advise where they can realize value from it
** Monitor and advise on database performance
** Propose and plan for strategies to allow scaling of the way they process and store data
** Work closely on a consultancy basis with various teams with touchpoints in this field
** Provide hands-on expertise when needed for proof-of-concept work, or as the situation demands
Knowledge/Experience Required:
** Demonstrable experience of hands-on DBA skills (e.g. performance optimisation of relational databases, and query optimisation)
** Experience architecting database solutions in AWS
** Extensive experience with relational & non-relational databases, key-value and
document stores at scale
** Experience working with data warehouse, data lakes, and the associated ETL and
reporting tools
** Expertise and understanding of architectures needed to build business-centric reports
from complex data
** A track record in delivering well architected data and reporting solutions
** Demonstrable data and reporting problem solving, and data modelling ability
Knowledge/Experience Desired:
** Automation and data CI/CD
** Experience with column based and graph-based databases like Cassanda and Neo4J
** Performance, optimization, and tuning skills with relational and non-relational databases
** Project management skills
** Agile framework experience
The client is looking to fill this opportunity immediately, so please apply ASAP or get in touch on to discuss in further detail or send your CV direct to me at (stuart . cooper @ itecco . co . uk) and call me on 0203.934.3504
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