Data Engineer - DEFRA

SR2
UK
24 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
£114,400.0 - £119,600.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Microsoft Azure Continuous Integration Data Infrastructure Database Development Distributed Computing Environment Python (Programming Language) Performance Tuning Software Engineering Apache Spark Data Pipelines Databricks

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience delivering data engineering solutions in Azure.
  • Strong hands-on experience working with Azure Databricks
  • Experience working with geospatial, mapping or location intelligence datasets
  • Central UK government experience within recent 5 years
  • Experience developing large-scale distributed data processing workloads.
  • Strong Python and SQL development skills.
  • Experience working with Spark-based technologies.
  • Knowledge of modern cloud data platform patterns and architectures.
  • Experience building and supporting automated data pipelines.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD practices and modern software engineering principles.
  • Strong troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills.

Benefits & conditions

  • 450 a day
  • Remote based
  • 6 month contract
  • Strong likelihood of extension

Please apply with a copy of your CV and Emma from SR2 will contact potential applicants regarding next steps.

About the company

SR2 is working with a consultancy that is expanding its data engineering capability to support the delivery of a large-scale cloud data platform. They are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help design and develop modern data solutions capable of handling complex, high-volume datasets.

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