Data Engineer - £350PD - Remote

City of London
2 months ago
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Required Technical Skills

Data Pipeline & ETL

Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data

Hands-on experience with AWS Glue and AWS Step Functions

Implementation of data validation, data quality frameworks, and reconciliation checks

Strong error handling, monitoring, and retry strategies in production pipelines

Experience with incremental data processing patterns (CDC, watermarking, upserts)

AWS Data Services

Amazon S3: data lake architectures, partitioning strategies, lifecycle policies

DynamoDB: data modeling, secondary indexes, streams, and performance optimization

Amazon Redshift: foundational querying, integrations, and performance considerations

AWS Lambda for scalable data processing and orchestration

Amazon EventBridge for event-driven and decoupled data pipelines

Vector Databases & Embeddings

Strong understanding of vector database concepts, indexing strategies, and performance trade-offs

Design and implementation of embedding generation pipelines

Optimization techniques for semantic search and retrieval accuracy

Effective chunking strategies for document ingestion and processing

Experience with CockroachDB deployment and management is beneficial

Document Processing

Experience with PDF parsing libraries such as PyPDF2, pdfplumber, and AWS Textract

Integration of OCR solutions (AWS Textract, Tesseract) for scanned documents

Extraction of document structure (headings, tables, sections)

Metadata extraction, normalization, and enrichment

Handling of multiple document formats including PDF, HTML, and DOCX

Data Integration

Familiarity with SAP data structures is beneficial

Integration with PIM (Product Information Management) systems

Design and consumption of REST APIs

Programming & Querying

Python (advanced): pandas, numpy, boto3, and data processing best practices

SQL (advanced): complex queries, performance tuning, and query optimization

Data Quality & Governance

Data profiling and ongoing quality assessment

Schema validation and evolution strategies

Data lineage tracking and observability

Understanding of Master Data Management (MDM) concepts

Domain Knowledge

Product catalog data models and hierarchies

E-commerce data patterns and integrations

B2B data exchange and system integration

To apply for this role please submit your CV or contact Dillon Blackburn on (phone number removed) or at (url removed).

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