Senior Data Engineer

£70,000 – £95,000 + competitive benefits package

Location: United Kingdom (London – London) Type: Permanent Skills: Azure, AWS, GCP, ETL, Informatica, Oracle

Are you interested in working for a British multinational arms, security and aerospace company based in London?

I am recruiting for the largest defence contractor in Europe that ranks within the top 10 in the world. Who are currently in search of a Senior Data Engineer to join their team working on high profile projects in the Central Government and Transport sector.

As a Senior Data Engineer you will need to demonstrate experience in the following:

• Designs, develops, tests and supports data collection data integration and ETL applications to make information and data available to key client stakeholders and technical interfaces
• Understand where the need for tight data controls arises to ensure seamless data flows around the organisation and to minimise future change
• Model data requirements, data sources and data flows to bring order and structure to programmes of work
• Define how and where data is created, mastered and destroyed to ensure proper control over the lifecycle of corporate data assets
• Understand how to add value to data that can be used to collect, integrate, store, visualise and govern data and metadata
• Define meta to provide searchability and governance for unstructured data
• Multi cloud experience

As a Senior Data Engineer you will need:

• Design ETL frameworks and standards for the specific ETL programs and projects
• Experience using the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Identify the required toolset for specific ETL programs and projects
• Design and implement the hardware environment required by ETL programs and projects
• Develop and test the re-usable components of an ETL framework for specific ETL programs and projects
• Undertake the role of lead developer, ensuring the quality and assurance of all ETL code and testing
• Can undertake the role of delivery lead ensuring that project timescales and quality are met
• Ensure the configuration and release management procedures are applied for specific ETL programs and projects
• Maintain and apply up to date, specialist knowledge of database concepts, object and data modelling techniques
• Build a detailed knowledge of the full range of database and data persistence architectures, software and facilities available
• Take account of industry specific requirements (geocoding for geographic information systems)
• Be able to utilise a number of ETL tools including Informatica, AB Initio, Oracle ODI and a number of the Big Data / Open Source Applications
• Understand data services, data security issues, 'privacy by design' and information assurance principles
• Define metadata structures and population techniques that can be used with enterprise content, management solutions in conjunction with organisational policies

As a Senior Data Engineer you will receive:

• £70,000 - £95,000 + competitive benefits package
• Matched pension
• Flexibile work life balance

Reference: AMC/RWI/SDE/001