Senior Data Engineer; eDV Hybrid

Position Overview

As a Data Engineer, you will assist in the development of a secure batch/real-time data platform for a government client leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies. This involves getting data from a variety of different sources, getting it into the right format, assuring alignment to target models, and ensuring that data can be made available to downstream consumers.

Due to the nature of the work and the customers, you must hold enhanced DV Security Clearance.

• Code, test, and document new or modified data pipelines that meet functional / non- functional business requirements
• Conduct logical and physical database design
• Expand and grow data platform capabilities to solve new data and analytics problems
• Conduct data analysis, identifying feasible solutions and enhancements to data processing challenges
• Ensure that data models are consistent with the data architecture (e.g. entity names, relationships and definitions)
• Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement

• Data pipeline development using data processing technologies and frameworks
• Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Data modelling and understanding of different data structures and their benefits and limitations under particular use cases
• Experience in Public Cloud services, such as AWS. Practical experience with core services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, Athena & Glue would be even better!
• Configuring and tuning Relational and No
  
  SQL databases, including both query processing and query planning, or other data processing infrastructure
• Programming or scripting languages, such as Python
• Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks

• Familiar with CI tools such as Jenkins/Drone
• Knowledge of configuration tools such as Ansible & Packer
• Use / Knowledge of Terraform for IaC deployments
• Experience in Linux and Windows

In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company paid medical insurance and life assurance, pension scheme, annual training allowance, wellbeing allowance, virtual GP, Employee Assistance plan and more.

Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.