Data Engineer

Us3 Consulting
Manchester
2 weeks ago
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The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining reliable, scalable data pipelines and data models that support analytics, reporting, and operational use cases. The role focuses on high-quality data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and environment management across the data platform, ensuring data is trusted, accessible, and fit for purpose.


Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines for ingesting data from source systems (e.g. operational systems, APIs, files, third-party platforms)
  • Implement batch and, where required, near-real-time data ingestion patterns
  • Ensure pipelines are resilient, performant, and recoverable, with appropriate error handling and logging

Orchestration & Scheduling

  • Define and manage workflow orchestration using scheduling and orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow or equivalent)
  • Manage dependencies, retries, alerts, and pipeline monitoring to support reliable data delivery
  • Optimise pipeline execution to meet agreed service levels for downstream reporting and analytics
  • Design and maintain data models to support reporting, analytics, and operational use cases (e.g. ODS, dimensional, or analytical models)
  • Apply best practices for data transformation, naming standards, and model documentation
  • Collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to ensure models meet business requirements

Environments & Platform Management

  • Work across development, test, and production environments, ensuring safe and controlled deployment of changes
  • Support environment configuration, version control, and CI/CD practices for data engineering workloads
  • Contribute to platform stability, performance tuning, and cost-effective use of infrastructure

Data Quality & Governance

  • Implement basic data quality checks and validation rules within pipelines
  • Support data lineage, metadata, and documentation to improve transparency and trust in data
  • Work within established data governance, security, and access control frameworks
  • Work closely with data analysts, architects, and wider technology teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions
  • Participate in planning, estimation, and delivery of data engineering work
  • Support incident investigation and resolution related to data pipelines and data availability
  • Strong experience building and maintaining data pipelines in a modern data platform
  • Solid understanding of data modelling concepts and patterns
  • Experience with workflow orchestration and scheduling tools
  • Strong capability in SQL and Python
  • Experience with Azure cloud-based data platforms such as Azure Synapse and Azure Data Factory
  • Experience working across multiple environments with version control
  • Good understanding of data quality, reliability, and operational considerations
  • Familiarity with CI/CD approaches for data engineering
  • Experience supporting analytics and reporting use cases in a production environment
  • Exposure to regulated or data-sensitive environments

Please apply with an updated CV, if you're available and can do 3 days onsite in Manchester.


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