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Data Engineer - Senior or Lead

Xpertise Recruitment
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1 year ago
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Xpertise is seeking a series of Data Engineers with cloud experience to join a fledgling team in Reading. 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: Reading or London; 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, AWS, and/or Azure services
  • Cloud Database Management: BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, and Redshift
  • 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.

 

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