Our client an industry leading Media and Data company are looking for a versatile Lead Data Engineer to join their team.
Leading a team of highly collaborative data engineers, your role will be to support the management leadership to make decisions for the data analytics and business intelligence systems. This role would suit a data professional with experience in extracting and analysing data from third party providers and presenting data and insights to stakeholders. The position is home based with 1 day per week travel into their London offices.
The role:
• Liaising with suppliers (Legacy Platforms / Dealing with Suppliers & Clients / Newly built platforms) E.g. Data issues / supplied file issues etc
• Management of infrastructure (AWS / Azure)
• Designing new processes to source efficiencies
• Analyse, transform and organize raw data.
• Architect and help build data systems and pipelines
• Evaluate business needs and objectives
• Combine raw information from different sources
• Work on ETL and data loading processes
• Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability
• Assist in the development of new products and tools including keeping abreast of developments in the field of data capture techniques via OCR and AI
Key skills required
• Strong data modelling and SQL/database design skills.
• Proficient with Tableau or Power BI
• Experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), Python, C#
• Strong conceptual and problem-solving skills
• Skill and knowledge of ETL processes
• Experience of working within cloud-based environment, AWS and Azure
• Good programming skills – SQL, R, Python, JavaScript etc.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent numerical, analytical and statistical ability
As well as a salary of up to £75,000 the company offer generous benefits including pension, Life Assurance and Group Income Protection. This is a home based role with 1 day per week travel into their London offices.