Data Engineer

Contract Data Engineer

3 month initial contract (with good chance of extension)

Manchester, 2 days per week on-site

Outside IR35

Start before Christmas

Overview

My client are a well knwon organsation just outside Manchester looking for a contract Data Engineer. You will review and improve a live Google Cloud data platform. You will lead ingestion, transformation, quality, and reporting enablement. You will work with data colleagues on shared standards and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Review the central data platform architecture, pipelines, and code standards
  
  
• Improve scalability, performance, monitoring, and disaster recovery
  
  
• Audit all data sources across the business
  
  
• Build secure ingestion pipelines for new sources
  
  
• Design and build reporting tables for business dashboards
  
  
• Support Looker dashboard development
  
  
• Define and implement a single customer view
  
  
• Build automated matching, deduplication, and cleansing pipelines
  
  
• Embed automated data quality checks across all pipelines
  
  
• Implement monitoring and alerting for data failures and anomalies
  
  
• Apply GDPR, encryption, access control, and data masking standards
  
  
• Run regular status check-ins with internal data colleagues
  
  
• Own data definitions, glossary, and metric governance
  
  
• Transform data using Python as the core language
  
  
• Load processed data into GCP test and production environments
  
  
• Provide access to data via Tableau, Google Sheets, and Python scripts
  
  
• Produce full documentation and an entity diagram
  
  Core Skills
  
  
• Strong hands-on Data Engineering experience
  
  
• Advanced Python for data transformation
  
  
• Google Cloud Platform production experience
  
  
• Data pipeline design and optimisation
  
  
• Data quality automation and monitoring
  
  
• Customer data and identity matching
  
  
• GDPR and data governance delivery
  
  
• Stakeholder communication in agile teams
  
  
• Looker or Tableau exposure
  
  
• BigQuery data modelling
  
  
• Experience building single customer views