Data Engineer

Robert Half are assisting a market leading financial services organisation to recruit an Data Engineer on an initial 6 month contract basis

Role

• The Data Engineer will implement data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics, ML, and BI systems.
• Lead the development of solutions for streaming data ingestion and transformations in line with our streaming strategy
• Design, build and test data products that are complex or large scale.
• Building advanced automation of data engineering pipelines through removal of manual stages.
• Sourcing new data using the most appropriate tooling for the situation.
• Understand the impact on the organisation of emerging trends in data tools, analysis techniques and data usage.
• Understand industry-recognised data modelling patterns and standards, and when to apply them.

Profile

• The Data Engineer will be proficient in ETL/ELT technical design, data quality testing, cleansing and monitoring, data sourcing, and exploration/analysis.
• Value agile methodologies, data-driven decision-making, reliability and incremental delivery. You're able to work alongside a diverse set of stakeholders, ensuring alignment of solution with business need.
• You understand distributed computing principles and have experience in distributed data systems for building streaming pipelines and data lakes (e.g. Flink, Trino, Iceberg, Parquet).
• Have a solid understanding of Infrastructure As Code for Data related Platforms (e.g. experience with Terraform and Docker).
• Experienced in using cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and cloud warehouses (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake) for building scalable/reliable data solutions.

Company

• Market leading financial services organisation
• Offices globally including London

Salary & Benefits

The salary range/rates of pay is dependent upon your experience, qualifications or training.

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