Data & Analytics Engineer

Newcastle upon Tyne
10 months ago
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Sellick Partnership is currently assisting an organisation in Newcastle with the recruitment of a Data & Analytics Engineer. This is a contract for 6 - 12 months, this role is hybrid with 3 days onsite and 2 from home.

Responsibilities of the Data & Analytics Engineer include:

Deliver the Data and Analytics service platform and methods
Design and develop appropriate secure data architecture such as data warehouses and data lakes for big data, data science, data models
Sourcing, accessing, manipulating and engineering ETL data pipelines and processes with data
Use programming skills such as SQL, Python and others to expose data from systems
Collate, cleanse, synthesise, integrate and interpret data to derive meaningful and actionable insights services to meet user needs at scale

The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

Microsoft Synapse - creating and maintaining data pipelines
PowerBI DAX
PowerBI design
SSRS

We encourage interested applicants to apply immediately to be considered for short listing. Alternatively, should you require further information or wish to discuss your suitability before applying please contact Ellie Turner in our Newcastle office for a confidential discussion.

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