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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Acorn Recruitment Ltd
- **Location:** Liverpool, UK
- **Salary:** £65,000.0 - £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Audio Signal Processing, Microsoft Azure, Databases, Data Governance, Meta-Data Management, NoSQL, Software Tools, Unstructured Data, System Availability, Data Strategy, Data Lakes, Apache Flink, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines, Confluent, Databricks
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.free-work.com/en-gb/tech-it/job-mission/data-engineer-1/data-engineer-1413

## About the Role

* Experience dealing with unstructured data including voice, chat, image
 * Proven ability to manage secure, high-performance database environments
 * Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
 * A passion for continuous learning and innovation

Desirable skill:

 * Databricks
 * Azure Fabric
 * Confluent/Apache Flink Knowledge, Because our training is quite comprehensive, we can only consider applicants who have at least one year remaining on their Graduate or Post-Study Work visa. At the moment, we're not able to offer visa sponsorship., Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Cloud Data Engineer, Data Platform Engineer, Data Analytics Engineer, Data Solution Architect, Database Architect, Infrastructure Engineer may also be considered for this role.

## Description

We are seeking a talented and experienced Data Engineer to join our innovative and collaborative Database and AI Team. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping our data strategy and driving business success. Your skills will contribute directly to our forward-thinking initiatives. At Acorn we value and prioritise innovation, teamwork, and continuous development.

Key part of this role is to support our strategic data goals, ensuring system resilience and performance, and building secure, scalable database architectures.

What you will be doing:

 * Design and implement robust data ingestion pipelines for unstructured data using modern data engineering tools and frameworks.
 * Develop and maintain scalable storage solutions (e.g., data lakes, NoSQL databases) optimized for unstructured data.
 * Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to ensure data availability, quality, and usability.
 * Apply data parsing, extraction, and transformation techniques (e.g., NLP, OCR, image/audio processing).
 * Implement data governance, metadata management, and data cataloging for unstructured data assets.
 * Monitor and optimize data workflows for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
 * Ensure compliance with data privacy and security standards.
 * Share knowledge and mentor team members
 * Stay ahead of the curve with the latest database technologies
 * Experience of real time cloud streaming solutions