Data Engineer

Role:

Data Engineer

Location:

Remote but able to attend client sites in Doncaster/London

Exp. Start Date:

ASAP

Contract Duration:

6 Months initially

Rate:

£500 per day (Umbrella)

Job Specification:

See attached

Key Responsibilities

Requirements definition and management

• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Contributes to selecting the requirements approach.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements.
• Establishes requirements baselines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.

Database design

• Implements physical database designs to support analytical data requirements for performance and availability.
• Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software and facilities.
• Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures and evaluates alternative options.
• Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.

Data engineering

• Designs, implements, and maintains complex data engineering solutions to acquire and prepare data.
• Creates and maintains data pipelines to connect data within and between data stores, applications and organisations.
• Carries out complex data quality checking and remediation.

Data modelling and design

• Investigates enterprise data requirements where there is some complexity and ambiguity.
• Plans own data modelling and design activities, selecting appropriate techniques and the correct level of detail for meeting assigned objectives.
• Provides advice and guidance to others using the data structures and associated components.

Change control

• Assesses, analyses, develops, documents and implements changes based on requests for change.
• Ensures that operational processes are in place for effective change control.
• Develops, configures and maintains tools to manage and report on the lifecycle of change requests.
• Identifies problems and issues and recommend corrective actions.

Release and deployment

• Assesses and analyses release components for input to release scheduling.
• Maintains and administers tools and methods for software delivery, deployment and configuration.
• Maintains release processes and procedures.

Risk and compliance

• Ensure that all Governance and Compliance requirements are adhered to and all reporting and reviewing activities required by the Regulatory Bodies are carried out to the standards required.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Works without the need for close supervision, showing excellent time management and organisational skills, delivering to agreed timescales
• Approaches problems systematically and objectively, analyses facts and evaluates options, draws sound conclusions
• Builds long lasting relationships with both internal and external customers
• Collaborates openly and effectively across functions to deliver change
• Possesses an excellent attention to detail
• Remains focused and calm under pressure
• Presents insight to and communicates effectively with a range of stakeholders including senior management
• Plans well and is able to balance multiple priorities and deal with ambiguity
• Role models a genuine drive for improvement and encourages others to drive for excellence
• Demonstrates a high level of creativity, drive, innovation and initiative; a self-starter with a constant desire to learn
• A good understanding of how to query data from relational databases using SQL
• Competent in the use of Oracle/ PL/QL/ SQL and Oracle Apex
• Experience of implementing various data platform architectures, data lakes and data warehouses
• Ability to translate business goals / pain points into data products that drive value
• Previous experience working in a business intelligence / analytics environment

Desirable

• Identifies dependencies and risks across multiple projects / delivery streams
• Experience of implementing and supporting cloud data platforms such as Snowflake
• Knowledge and experience of working in an Agile way
• Financial services domain knowledge

This vacancy is being advertised by Rullion Ltd acting as an employment business.

Since 1978, Rullion has been securing exceptional candidates for a range of clients; from large well-known brands to SMEs and start-ups. As a family-owned business, Rullion's approach is credible and honest, focused on building long-lasting relationships with both clients and candidates.

We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants. NDENG-SO