Senior Data Engineer (Contract) – Digital Business – London

Senior Data Engineer (Contract) – Digital Business – London

Rate: £400 – £500 per day

Length: 6 months

The right person will be:

• An enthusiast – you understand what a good data warehouse can bring to a business and what it takes to build one.
• A communicator – you can communicate effectively to engineers as well as business users.
• A builder – you have experience of warehouse development, from data modelling to building out comprehensive ETL.
• A pathfinder – you are interested in solving problems today while helping shape work months ahead.
• A thinker – you have an inquisitive mindset and the desire and ability to turn business requirements into working software.
• An owner – you’ll take pride and ownership in the quality of the work you produce.

Experience: Senior Data Engineer (Contract) – Digital Business – London

• 3+ years in a development and data engineering role preferably in tech, consulting, or finance.*
• Extensive hands-on experience with SQL (we use Postgres).
• Strong programming skills (Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Clojure; we love them all).
• Familiarity with AWS stack including EMR, Lambda & EC2.
• Proficiency using large data sets and relational and dimensional modeling.
• Expertise in a Unix environment.
• Experience with messaging and streaming platforms (Kafka/RabbitMQ/JMS/etc.).
• Exposure to big data/NoSQL systems and the issues that arise from working with large data sets.
• A self-starter attitude with an enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented, start-up environment.

Bonus: Senior Data Engineer (Contract) – Digital Business – London

• Engineering/CS or Finance degree.
• Experience in virtualized environments (Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, Docker, etc.).
• Skills working with structured and unstructured data sets.
• Microservice architecture development experience.

Please send across the most up to date copy f your CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com