Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Newcastle

Hybrid

Circa £60,000

We are a market-leading e-commerce company, seeking a skilled and motivated Data Engineer to join our team in Newcastle. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing our data infrastructure, ensuring the seamless flow and integrity of data across our systems. This position offers a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment where your expertise in data engineering will directly impact our business decisions and strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to support data integration and transformation processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• Optimize and tune data processing workflows to improve efficiency and performance.
• Implement and manage data storage solutions in cloud environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Develop and maintain data models and database schemas to support analytics and reporting.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines to ensure data quality and consistency.
• Work with large datasets, performing data wrangling and preprocessing to prepare data for analysis.
• Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong proficiency in Python for data manipulation and automation tasks.
• Advanced SQL skills for querying and managing relational databases.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure.
• Extensive experience in designing, building, and maintaining ETL pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.