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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Vallum Associates
- **Location:** Birmingham, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** BigQuery, Cloud Database, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Relational Databases, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Atlassian Tools, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2879164068-data-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong understanding of Operational Resilience concepts and hands-on experience with relevant data e.g. service / impact tolerances, asset dependency incidents / outages, DR / BCP test evidence, concentration indicators

 * Conceptual understanding of Procurement / Real Estate and associated data domains preferred

 * Demonstrable understanding of graph concepts (nodes / edges, typed relationships, multi-hop traversal / path analysis) and ability to apply in the context of Operational Resilience e.g. what-if analysis, identifying critical path / single point of failure

 * Demonstrable experience in a data engineering role delivering end-to-end data solutions (data sourcing, ingestion, data warehouse / refinery patterns, data asset delivery)

 * Strong SQL skills and experience with relational data modelling and optimisation

 * Hands-on experience with cloud data tooling and services (e.g. Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery or equivalent)

 * Strong coding capability in Python with solid software engineering practices (version control, testing, CI/CD where applicable)

 * Experience with enterprise data technologies and platforms commonly used in large organisations and data integration patterns Template version: March 2020 ( when complete)

 * Experience with data governance and operating discipline, metadata, lineage, access controls, retention, and data standards

 * Experience with Agile delivery and familiarity with relevant tools (JIRA and Confluence).

 * Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to work effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders



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