Data Engineer

Canada Life
London
1 week ago
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Location: London, Potters Bar, Bristol or Isle of Man (hybrid working options available)

The Data Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines within the IT department. The pipelines will be realised in a modern lake environment and the engineer will collaborate in cross-functional teams to gather requirements and develop the conceptual data models. This role plays a crucial part in driving data-driven decision-making across the organisation, ensuring data availability, quality, and accessibility for various business needs.

This is not a line management role, but you will play a key part in guiding and upskilling more junior data engineers and setting data standards and guidelines.

What you'll do

  • Design, model, develop and maintain data pipelines to ingest, store, process, and present data.
  • Ensure data quality, accuracy, and consistency.
  • Collaborate with data architects to ensure data pipelines align with the overall data architecture strategy.
  • Perform data transformation tasks, including data cleansing, enrichment, and aggregation, to prepare data for analytics and reporting.
  • Integrate data from structured and unstructured sources, ensuring compatibility and alignment with data models and business requirements.
  • Automate data transformation processes to improve efficiency.

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