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Senior Data Engineer AWS Kafka

Client Server
Sheffield
1 week ago
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Senior Data Engineer (AWS Kafka) Remote UK to £80k


Are you a data technologist with strong AWS and Kafka experience?


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What's in it for you:

  • Salary to £80k
  • Remote working
  • Private medical care
  • Life Assurance
  • 25 days holiday plus your birthday off
  • Impactful role with excellent career progression as the company scales


Your role:

As a Senior Data Engineer you'll focus on designing, implementing and maintaining scalable and reliable data pipelines that can cope with c50 million events per day, with the aim to scale that to 500 million events per day. You'll be using Kafka for real-time data streaming and AWS to build, optimise and monitor data warehousing solutions in Amazon RedShift, owning and managing AWS based systems to ensure cost effective, secure and high performance data operations.


Location / WFH:

You can work from home from anywhere in the UK. Please note: you must be a UK citizen or hold the right to work without visa restrictions.


About you:

  • You have strong data engineering skills and experience, having been through multiple end-to-end data pipeline builds
  • You have a deep knowledge of AWS cloud services including: S3, EC2, Lambda, RDS, RedShift, Glue as well as Kinesis, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
  • You have experience of working in environments with high throughput data (millions of events per hour)
  • You have strong Kafka experience
  • You have strong SQL and data modelling skills and experience with both SQL and NoSQL data stores
  • You have a strong understanding of DBT (or equivalent) and Tableau
  • You have experience with Python for data processing and automation tasks
  • You have a good appreciation of Cloud infrastructure and IaC (Terraform)
  • You're collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skills


Apply now to find out more about this Senior Data Engineer (AWS Kafka) opportunity.

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