Data Engineer

Lorien; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Higher Education client of Lorien is seeking a highly experienced Data Engineer for a 6-month contract. The position requires significant expertise in Python, data processing, and visualisation, with a focus on building SQL databases and automated pipelines. The role involves collaboration across teams to understand and implement data requirements effectively.

Qualifications

• Considerable experience in automated data processing using relational databases and real-time data feeds.
• Significant Python programming experience in data processing and stats generation on large datasets.
• Experience in building SQL relational database schemas.

Responsibilities

• Build automated data processing pipelines and dashboards.
• Work with both technical and non-technical staff to understand requirements.
• Document specifications and present analytics.

Skills

Data modelling

Python programming

Data visualisation

Job description

One of Loriens leading Higher Education clients is looking for a highly experienced Data Engineer to join their team on an initial 6 month contract.

Must be able to attend Edinburgh office 1-2 days per week.

The role requires someone with considerable experience in building automated data processing with relational databases and real-time data feeds using python, and the creation of data visualisation dashboards and the supporting analytics. The role will require working with staff from within the team and from others across the organisation on a regular basis, and will need to understand requirements and document specifications and present your implementation and analytics to both technical and non-technical staff.

Required experience and skills:

• Data modelling and building SQL relational database schemes
• Significant Python programming experience in data processing/wrangling, and stats generation on large scale datasets
• Data visualisation, web-based dashboard creation

Desirable technical knowledge and experience of:

• Building automated data processing pipelines integrating API based data sources
• Elastic software stack
• Being able to interpret user requests to build suitable analysis and dashboards
• Being able to present and explain data analysis and visualisation to a broad user community

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.