Data Engineer

Hexegic
Gloucestershire
1 year ago
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Are you passionate about advancing your career in data and software engineering? Here at Hexegic we are looking for driven and innovative data engineers to grow professionally, whilst collaborating with some of the industry’s brightest minds. Your role will be essential in helping customers build and maintain data pipelines and applications, using proprietary commercial software, ensuring data projects can be rapidly prototyped and delivered for customer needs. You will Design, develop and maintain bespoke full end-to-end data projects Work closely with data scientists, analysts, product owners and other engineers Develop front-end/user-facing application development Build ontologies to aid in the creation and management of structured data assets Data pipeline building for the creation of data pipelines Utilise PySpark for large scale data pipelines Collaborate on software development practices within team settings Retrieve data and integration into data processing pipelines What we are looking for Proficiency in python, or familiarity with similar languages Experience or awareness of data engineering principles and practices Capability to independently own and execute tasks Ability to communicate complex material in clear and concise manner to a range of user abilities As a commitment to your development, Hexegic give each employee a budget of £5,000 per year as a training allowance to develop your personal and professional growth. Note: this is a fully on site role, and candidates for this role are required to hold an active DV security clearance

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