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Role: Data Engineer
Location: Birmingham (1 Day In-Office Monthly)
Duration: 12 Month Fixed-Term
Salary: £45,000 - £55,000
We are Network IT have a fantastic opportunity for a Data Engineer to join an outstanding, long-term client who are undertaking a programme to simplify and consolidate their data sources into a modern, scalable data warehouse. This role will require you to be on-site at their Central Birmingham office, once a month.
Our client is in the initial stages of developing their cloud-based data warehouse, which is hosted on MS Azure and based on Snowflake. At this stage, the fundamental architecture has been identified and systems are beginning to communicate with one another, but with lots more to do, this is a lucrative opportunity to take control, design and deliver their data platform.
This is a hands-on role, good for someone who likes a challenging environment and can provide their technical expertise to inform how data is used to inform key business decision-making. The successful candidate in this role:

Must have experience using a variety of data architecture and modelling techniques.
Proven ability to design, develop and implement complex data warehouse solutions.
Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship building to understand and provide business needs.Experience:
We are looking for a Data Engineer who has experience designing and implementing data warehouses, with strong technical competency using Snowflake (preferably certified), Azure Data Factory for building cloud ETL pipelines, Power BI and Data Build Tool (DBT). Other elements of your experience which are desirable to our client include:

Data architecture and modelling.
Python
GIT
Agile Practices (e.g. Scrum or Kanban).
Continuous integration pipelines (Azure DevOPs, TeamCity, Jenkins)
SQL
API integrations

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