Data Engineer

My client are a well knwon organsation just outside Manchester looking for a contract Data Engineer. You will review and improve a live Google Cloud data platform. You will lead ingestion, transformation, quality, and reporting enablement. You will work with data colleagues on shared standards and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Review the central data platform architecture, pipelines, and code standards

• Improve scalability, performance, monitoring, and disaster recovery

• Audit all data sources across the business

• Build secure ingestion pipelines for new sources

• Design and build reporting tables for business dashboards

• Support Looker dashboard development

• Define and implement a single customer view

• Build automated matching, deduplication, and cleansing pipelines

• Embed automated data quality checks across all pipelines

• Implement monitoring and alerting for data failures and anomalies

• Apply GDPR, encryption, access control, and data masking standards

• Run regular status check-ins with internal data colleagues

• Own data definitions, glossary, and metric governance

• Transform data using Python as the core language

• Load processed data into GCP test and production environments

• Provide access to data via Tableau, Google Sheets, and Python scripts

• Produce full documentation and an entity diagram

• Strong hands-on Data Engineering experience

• Advanced Python for data transformation

• Google Cloud Platform production experience

• Data pipeline design and optimisation

• Data quality automation and monitoring

• Customer data and identity matching

• GDPR and data governance delivery

• Stakeholder communication in agile teams

• Looker or Tableau exposure

• BigQuery data modelling

• Experience building single customer views