Data Engineer

Maxwell Bond; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment agency is seeking a Data Engineer for a 3-month contract in Manchester, requiring strong experience in Google Cloud and Python. You will lead data ingestion, transformation, quality, and governance for a live data platform. Key responsibilities include reviewing data pipelines and building secure ingestion processes. This role offers flexibility, with 2 days per week on-site, and a chance for contract extension.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Data Engineering experience.
• Proficient in Python for data transformations.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Review and improve the central data platform architecture.
• Build secure ingestion pipelines for new data sources.
• Design and build reporting tables for business dashboards.

Skills

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

Job description

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

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