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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** ViVA Tech Talent
- **Location:** Belfast, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Data Analysis, BigQuery, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Warehousing, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Workflow Management Systems, Snowflake, Cloudformation, Event Driven Architecture, Terraform, Amazon Redshift
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840676299-senior-data-engineer

## About the Role

* 5+ years in data engineering / data platform roles
 * Strong AWS experience (e.g. S3, Lambda, Glue, Kinesis)
 * Expert SQL and solid Python
 * Experience with modern data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)
 * Orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) and dbt
 * Comfortable operating at architecture level, not just pipelines

Nice to have

 * Streaming or event-driven architectures
 * IoT / high-volume telemetry data
 * IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation)
 * Scale-up or startup experience

## Description

* Designing and building a scalable data platform on AWS
 * Creating robust batch and streaming data pipelines
 * Owning analytical data models (SQL / dbt) used across the business
 * Partnering with engineering teams on data modelling and data contracts
 * Optimising for cost, scale, governance, and data quality in a high-volume environment


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