Data Engineer - Senior or Lead

Xpertise is seeking a series of Data Engineers with cloud experience to join a fledgling team in Birmingham. As part of our client's growing engineering division, you will play a pivotal role in leading the data engineering capabilities, working closely with Platform Engineers, Developers, and Analysts.

Key details:

Salary: £55,000-95,000 (Mid-Lead)

I'd consider experienced contractors with a rate of £450.00 per day (Outisde IR35)

Benefits: Private healthcare + 10% pension + free lunches + international travel opportunities

Location: Newcastle; can be remote-based, hybrid working or office-based

Future outlook: Vertical and horizontal opportunities: there'll be an optional structured training programme to progress you onto management, a pathway to become an Architect, and even venture into the world of MLOps/AIOps.

Key experience desired / what you will learn:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes leveraging GCP services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, and Cloud Storage.
• Architect data models and schemas in BigQuery to support analytics, reporting, and business intelligence initiatives.
• Python development
• Implement data governance and security best practices to ensure compliance and data integrity.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• CI/CD pipeline automation utilising GitLab
• DevOps: GKE (Kubernetes), Terraform, Ansible
• Leadership capabilities: mentorship, management

Role overview:

If you're eager to collaborate with a driven team of software engineers and accomplished senior leaders while immersing yourself in cutting-edge data, AI, and cloud technologies, then this opportunity is tailor-made for you. With ambitious plans to revolutionise the industry through groundbreaking machine learning and analytics projects, now is the perfect moment to become part of our journey.

Interested? Please apply with your CV and/or message Billy Hall for further details.

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