Data Engineer

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.

Job Title: Database Engineer

Location: Liverpool City Centre on a hybrid working basis

Salary: £65,000 - £70,000 depending on experience

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm

• 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, No
  
  SQL 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 with real-time cloud streaming solutions.

• 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.

• Databricks.
• Azure Fabric.
• Confluent/Apache Flink Knowledge.

• 35 days’ holiday (including bank holidays) with additional buy/sell options.
• 24/7 mental health support & free counselling available.
• Grow with us:
  Through career fairs, leadership programs, and learning on the go!
• Flexible benefits, including early access to salary via our internal platform.
• Hybrid working options to support work-life balance and individual needs.
• Recognition awards, social events & more.