Data Engineering Consultant Full Time NEW

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear
Electus Recruitment Solutions
Build data solutions for complex Defence challenges while broadening your technical experience across varied consultancy projects. Develop your skills across modern data engineering technologies and production environments.

What you will need

• Hands-on data engineering experience.
• Strong SQL and Python programming skills.
• Experience building production data pipelines.
• Understanding of cloud platforms and distributed computing.

Excellent remuneration and rewards

Excellent remuneration package plus a discretionary bonus.

What you will be working on

• Designing and developing data-intensive applications and production pipelines.
• Building data solutions from initial ingestion through to end-user consumption.
• Working with complex, sensitive and challenging datasets.
• Developing practical solutions to make difficult-to-access data usable in operational environments.
• Testing and improving data products to ensure reliability and quality.
• Contributing to varied Defence consultancy projects with different technical challenges.

Your experience

• Strong experience working with SQL and large datasets.
• Python programming and sound software engineering practices.
• Exposure to Spark, Databricks, AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with data orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Understanding of data modelling, data quality and feature engineering.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts and collaborate with analysts, scientists and engineers.

Benefits and development
The employer supports your development and wellbeing through:

• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Pension contributions matched up to 6%.
• Private health insurance through Bupa.
• Discretionary bonus.

Location and working pattern

Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, this is a site-based permanent position. Regular travel to client sites across the UK is also required. Some assignments may involve two to three days per week at client sites or shorter periods of full-time onsite working. Travel expenses and hotel arrangements are provided.

This role offers the opportunity to develop your technical capability across a broad range of data engineering challenges while contributing to work supporting UK Defence and national security.
Security Clearance: The role requires British Citizenship (including dual UK nationals with British citizenship). Successful candidates will be required to undergo HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks after offer, managed by the employer’s Personnel Security Team.

This is a permanent role.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high-technology industries. Thank you for your interest. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You may resubmit your CV or details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability then.