AWS Lakehouse Data Engineer - ETL & Pipeline Architect

PURVIEW

Basildon

On-site

GBP 65,000 - 100,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

PURVIEW in Basildon, UK is seeking an experienced Data Lakehouse Engineer to design and optimize scalable Lakehouse and data platform solutions. You will build ingestion and transformation pipelines to enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.

The role requires strong AWS Lambda, data lakehouse architecture and ETL concepts, plus hands-on experience with Snowflake, Kafka, and StreamSets. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality, governance, and

Qualifications

7 years of experience in a data engineering or similar role within a fast paced enterprise scale environment
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related technical field
Strong proficiency in SQL and data integration platforms with understanding of data transformation and orchestration processes
Extensive experience with AWS services including IAM, Lambda, EKS, S3, EMR, PySpark, MWAA, and Lakehouse technologies such as Apache Iceberg
Proven expertise with Snowflake including performance tuning and efficient query design; experience with batch (StreamSets) and streaming (Kafka) environments

Responsibilities

Contribute to the design and implementation of Lakehouse integration architectures including data flows, process flows, and ELT/ETL patterns
Build, optimize and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, processing, and storage across data lake and Lakehouse layers
Implement and uphold data governance, security, lineage and compliance best practices throughout the data lifecycle
Monitor, troubleshoot and finetune data workflows, compute jobs and storage layers to ensure high performance and reliability
Provide production support ensuring robust system observability with proactive detection and resolution of issues
Collaborate with platform, analytics and engineering teams to ensure efficient data modeling, table design and storage optimization (e.g., Iceberg, Delta patterns)