Data Engineer

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The Role:

Reporting to the Data Engineering Manager as part of the global Technology & Transformation Department, the holder of this position will be responsible for providing expertise across a broad range of data systems operating in the Robert Walters Group IT infrastructure.

Your Job:

• Design, build, implement and maintain Data Migration processes;
• Design, build, implement and maintain Data Integration and ETL/ELT pipelines;
• Design, build, implement and maintain databases (Snowflake, Dynamics, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Oracle, Sybase);
• Design, build and maintain solutions incorporating the company’s Data Lake / Data Warehouse;
• Provide Business Level through to Technical Level analytical expertise for data-related aspects of IT projects;
• Design, build, implement and support programs and applications for database management, data management and user interaction with various data sources;
• Design and document the architectural components needed to transform raw transactional data into a consistent and coherent dataset suitable for BI use. Ensure guidelines exist for integration, cleansing and data modelling including data warehouse structures (aggregation, federation, virtualisation);
• Understand the data components needed to meet business requirements including currency, quality, granularity, velocity and structure.

About you:

• University degree or Technical Diploma, preferably in an Information Technology / Information Systems subject.
• 5-8 years of hands-on experience with databases (Snowflake preferred), tools and methodologies
• Ability to contribute to the design of data solutions
• Proactiveness and team cooperation spirit
• Extensive experience designing, building and maintaining Data Migration and Integration solutions using a recognized Business Integration tool, including the use of a programming language within a tool.
• Experience designing, building and maintaining databases, including procedural programming and SQL scripting on a major RDBMS.
• Experience working with one of the major cloud platforms (Amazon AWS / Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud);
• Experience working within the Scrum agile framework.
• Extensive experience in Data Modelling (Kimball, Star Schema, Data Vault, etc) is a must.

Nice to have:

• Experience in AWS data pipeline services.
• Experience working in Snowflake Data Cloud.
• Experience designing and building Data Lakes / Data Warehouses.
• Experience of working with NoSQL databases, e.g. MongoDB.
• Experience in Python programming.
• AWS Certified Developer (Associate) and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) certifications.
• Certified Data Vault 2.0 Practitioner (CDVP2TM)
• Experience working with event-based and streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka;

General Information

• Work Environment
• Standard office / IT working environment;
• Hybrid, 2 days/week presence in the office
• Work Demands
• Standard working hours are typical, with the possibility of evening/weekend work during exceptionally busy periods.
• Other
• Other duties which are reasonably within the capabilities of a staff member in this position may need to be performed from time to time, in addition to or instead of the above duties.
• The requirements of this role may change over time and staff are required to comply with all such reasonable changes