Lead Data Engineer

Job Title: Lead Data Engineer / AWS

Location: Belfast / Fully remote based role

Salary: £65,800 - £90,000 + Benefits +

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Evolve Recruitment are seeking to recruit an experienced Lead Data Engingeer for an established organisation. As a Lead Data Engineer, the successful candidate will have experience leading teams to design, build, and maintain large scale data solutions and applications using AWS data and analytics services (or open-source equivalent) such as EMR, Glue, RedShift, Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB. Your team members will look to you as a trusted expert and will expect you to define the end-to-end software development lifecycle in line with modern AWS best practices. Your AWS experience spans Data Engineering, data science and product development projects, plus you will have an understanding of stream and batch processing. The ideal candidate will be an experienced data engineer with experience in AWS cloud technologies for ETL pipeline, data warehouse and data lake design/building and data movement. A fully remote based role.

Experience & Skills

• Experience in the design and deployment of production data pipelines from ingestion to consumption within a big data architecture, using Java, Python, Scala, Spark, SQL.
• Perform tasks such as writing scripts, extracting data using APIs, writing SQL queries etc.
• Work closely with other engineering teams to integrate Data Engineering component into production systems.
• Knowledge of data cleaning, wrangling, visualization and reporting, with an understanding of the best, most efficient use of associated tools and applications to complete these tasks.
• Ability to travel to client site, where required, will be a consideration.
• Experience in processing large amounts of structured and unstructured data, including integrating data from multiple sources through ingestion and curation functions on AWS cloud using AWS native or custom programming.
• Knowledge of data mining, machine learning, natural language processing is an advantage.
• You enjoy working within cross-functional Agile teams and you are familiar with Scrum ceremonies.
• Be comfortable designing and building for the AWS cloud and will have designed and worked on architectures that include Platform-as-a-Service components and perhaps even server-less and container technologies.

You are required to be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. If you feel you have the relevant skills and experience required for this role, then please apply to Evolve Recruitment, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, London, England for more information.

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