Data Engineer Consultant

• Data Engineer Consultant

  • Redditch, UK
  • Employees can work remotely
  • Full-time
  • Department: Digital Development & Architecture

  Company Description

  Version 1 has celebrated its 25th year in the IT industry last year and we continue to be trusted by global brands to deliver IT solutions that drive customer success.
  
  Version 1 is not just a Microsoft Gold Partner, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and an Oracle Platform Partner; we are also an award-winning employer and our employees are at the heart of Version 1. We invest in a strong culture of wellness through programs that help our employees create their journey toward optimal wellbeing. This framework is based on the ‘Strength in Balance‘ theme and this is seen again in our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Team motto “Bring Your Difference“.

  Job Description

  This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced developer of large scale data solutions.  You will join a team delivering a transformative cloud hosted data platform for a key Version 1 customer. 

  The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in implementing data ingestion and transformation pipelines for large scale organisations. We are seeking someone with deep technical skills in a variety of technologies to play an important role in developing and delivering early proofs of concept and production implementation.

  You will ideally have experience in building solutions using a variety of open source tools & Microsoft Azure services, and a proven track record in delivering high quality work to tight deadlines.

  Your main responsibilities will be:

  • Designing and implementing highly performant data ingestion & transformation pipelines from multiple sources using a variety of technologies
  • Delivering and presenting proofs of concept to of key technology components to prospective customers and project stakeholders.
  • Developing scalable and re-usable frameworks for ingestion and transformation of large data sets
  • Master data management system and process design and implementation.
  • Data quality system and process design and implementation.
  • Integrating the end to end data pipeline to take data from source systems to target data repositories ensuring the quality and consistency of data is maintained at all times
  • Working with event based / streaming technologies to ingest and process data
  • Working with other members of the project team to support delivery of additional project components (Reporting tools, API interfaces, Search)
  • Evaluating the performance and applicability of multiple tools against customer requirements
  • Working within an Agile delivery / DevOps methodology to deliver proof of concept and production implementation in iterative sprints.

  Qualifications

   You will have:

  • Microsoft Azure Big Data Architecture certification.
  • Hands on experience designing and delivering solutions using the Azure Data Analytics platform (Cortana Intelligence Platform) including Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Stream Analytics
  • Direct experience of building data piplines using Azure Data Factory and Apache Spark (preferably Databricks).
  • Experience building data warehouse solutions using ETL / ELT tools such as SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Talend, Wherescape Red.
  • Experience with Azure Event Hub, IOT Hub, Apache Kafka, Nifi for use with streaming data / event-based data
  • Experience with other Open Source big data products eg Hadoop (incl. Hive, Pig, Impala)
  • Experience with Open Source non-relational / NoSQL data repositories (incl. MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J)
  • Experience working with structured and unstructured data including imaging & geospatial data.
  • Comprehensive understanding of data management best practices including demonstrated experience with data profiling, sourcing, and cleansing routines utilizing typical data quality functions involving standardization, transformation, rationalization, linking and matching.
  • Experience working in a Dev/Ops environment with tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services, Chef, Puppet or Terraform

   

  Additional Information

  Before you apply, here are some of our benefits. We offer profit share, pension, private medical, flexible working policy and more. We offer incentives for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role.

  We offer employee recognition in the form of Excellence Awards and V1Ps which is awarded by your peers. Engagement is incredibly important with local engagement teams driving our engagement events!