Our client an industry leading Media and Data company are looking for a versatile Lead Data Engineer to join their team.

 Leading a team of highly collaborative data engineers, your role will be to support the management leadership to make decisions for the data analytics and business intelligence systems. This role would suit a data professional with experience in extracting and analysing data from third party providers and presenting data and insights to stakeholders. The position is home based with 1 day per week travel into their London offices.

 The role:

 

•        Liaising with suppliers (Legacy Platforms / Dealing with Suppliers & Clients / Newly built platforms) E.g. Data issues / supplied file issues etc

•        Management of infrastructure (AWS / Azure)

•        Designing new processes to source efficiencies

•        Analyse, transform and organize raw data.

•        Architect and help build data systems and pipelines

•        Evaluate business needs and objectives

•        Combine raw information from different sources

•        Work on ETL and data loading processes

•        Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability

•        Assist in the development of new products and tools including keeping abreast of developments in the field of data capture techniques via OCR and AI

Key skills required

•             Strong data modelling and SQL/database design skills.

•             Proficient with  Tableau or Power BI

•             Experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), Python, C#

•             Strong conceptual and problem-solving skills

•             Skill and knowledge of ETL processes

•             Experience of working within cloud-based environment, AWS and Azure

•             Good programming skills – SQL, R, Python, JavaScript etc.

•             Strong verbal and written communication skills

•             Excellent numerical, analytical and statistical ability

 

 As well as a salary of up to £75,000 the company offer generous benefits including pension, Life Assurance and Group Income Protection. This is a home based role with 1 day per week travel into their London offices.