Description
Senior Data Engineer
Location: Cambridge, UK
Salary: Competitive
A leading technology company is looking for a talented and enthusiastic contractor working in the role of a Senior Data Engineer in their multidisciplinary Data Science team.
Your primary focus will be in applying data analysis to take on complex, interesting data challenges and extract actionable information from high-dimensional (engineering) data.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply Datamodelling, data quality control and data validation techniques, etc to solve complex engineering data challenges
- Work with the data science team to provide various views, prototype and deploy solutions
- Process, cleanse, and verify the integrity of different types of data
- Data visualisation
- Generate views for productions in development, deploy and maintain already in production.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Experience in ETL and data processing: Extraction, consolidation, and processing data from various data sources to be used for visualization
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Datamodelling, data quality control and data validation skills
- Experience in designing interactive data visualizations
- Required technologies: Tableau, Spark, Scala, Jira, Git/Gerrit
- Ability to rapidly prototype and deploy solutions
- Data-oriented personality, attention to detail
- Deep understanding of software development workflow, such as Git usage, CI/CD, etc.
- A good university degree and/or extraordinary talent in data Engineering, mathematics, statistics, or other data engineering related areas
Preferred Skills
- Industry experience, Maters/Engineering equivalent expertise and/or extraordinary talent in Data Engineering
- Ability to use data science tools and languages, including Presto, Python, D3.js etc
- Experience in working with Data Science team.
- Interest and endurance in taking on a complex, challenging data problem
- Proficiency in gathering, cleansing and analysing data