Data Engineer

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Up to £80,000

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join a growing data team responsible for developing and maintaining a modern cloud-based data platform. This role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale data challenges, build robust data solutions and contribute to the continued evolution of the organisation's data capabilities.

The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, developing and optimising data pipelines that support reporting, analytics and business-critical decision-making. You will collaborate with a range of stakeholders to ensure data is accessible, reliable and delivered efficiently across the organisation.

• Design, build and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines.

• Develop and support ETL/ELT processes for ingesting and transforming data from multiple sources.

• Enhance and maintain cloud-based data infrastructure within AWS.

• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise data workflows to ensure high performance and reliability.

• Implement best practices around data quality, governance and monitoring.

• Support the development of a centralised data platform and data architecture.

• Work closely with analysts, engineers and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions.

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.

• Identify opportunities to improve existing processes through automation and optimisation.

• Ensure data solutions are secure, scalable and aligned with business objectives.

• 3-6 years' experience in Data Engineering or a related discipline.

• Strong programming experience with Python.

• Advanced SQL skills and experience working with large datasets.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-based data platforms.

• Experience building and maintaining production-grade data pipelines.

• Experience using Airflow for workflow orchestration.

• Strong version control experience using Git.

• Understanding of data modelling principles and database design.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience working with data lakes or modern data warehouse technologies.

• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools.

• Experience with CI/CD practices and automated deployment pipelines.

• Knowledge of data governance, monitoring and observability tools.

• Experience working within fast-paced, data-driven environments.

• Salary up to £80,000.

• Opportunity to work with modern cloud and data technologies.

• Exposure to complex, high-impact data engineering challenges.

• Collaborative and highly skilled technical environment.

• Career development and progression opportunities.

• Hybrid working environment.

• Competitive benefits package.

If you are passionate about building reliable data platforms, solving complex engineering problems and delivering scalable data solutions, we would be interested in speaking with you.