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Location: Romford, Essex

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Lead Data Engineer to lead a team within a global organisation with offices in Romford, Essex. This team's focus is on developing a portfolio of business intelligence services and products that support their customers' needs.

The ideal candidate will have experience with Databricks, as well as reading and writing in Python.

Duties of the role:

You will be responsible for the division's business intelligence domain (i.e. ingestion, pipelining, processing, semantic modelling and visualisations), as well as the data science domain where they will help build complex algorithms and models to solve some of the most interesting problems within the logistics industry.

Benefits include:

Hybrid working (2 days in the office, 3 at home)
25 days holiday (+ public holidays)
2 external professional training courses per year (chosen by you and taken during work days)
Private health care (taxable)
Frequent company and team events
Excellent pension plan (employee contributes 5% and employer contributes 10%)If you are looking to join an innovative organisation local to you, we want to hear from YOU. You can apply online but we'd rather speak with you directly so would welcome a call or email to the Adecco Romford branch.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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