Data Engineer - Hybrid Role, Build Trusted Data Pipelines

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Hybrid working

Training & Development

Career progression

Company benefits

Job summary

Halian is hiring a Data Engineer to strengthen our data infrastructure. You will build and optimize data pipelines, ingest data from multiple sources, and ensure data quality across analytics environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with SQL, Python, and cloud data platforms, with a focus on reliable, scalable data processing and governance to support reporting and AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, BI Engineering, or a closely related role.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational data.
• Good Python skills for data processing and automation.
• Commercial experience building or maintaining data pipelines.
• Experience integrating data from multiple sources.
• Practical experience identifying and resolving data quality and consistency issues.
• Understanding of data modelling and analytical data structures.
• Experience with ETL or ELT processes.
• Experience working with databases, data warehouses, or cloud data platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a methodical approach to investigating data issues.

Responsibilities

• Building, maintaining, and improving reliable data pipelines across multiple business systems.
• Extracting, transforming, and loading data into centralised analytical environments.
• Integrating data from multiple internal systems and external sources.
• Investigating and resolving data quality, consistency, and integrity issues.
• Identifying discrepancies between systems and establishing reliable sources of truth.
• Developing reusable data transformation and processing workflows
• Writing efficient SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
• Using Python to automate data processing and engineering tasks.
• Supporting the development and maintenance of data warehouses and analytical data structures.
• Monitoring data pipelines and investigating failures or unexpected results.
• Working with stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Documenting data sources, transformations, pipelines, and processes.
• Creating trusted datasets to support reporting, analytics, Data Science, and future AI initiatives.
• Contributing to improvements in data governance, quality, and accessibility across the organisation.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data integration

Data quality

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing/cloud

Problem solving

Tools

Azure

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

dbt

APIs

Power BI

Tableau

CI/CD

Git

Data lakes

Data warehouses

Job description

Halian is hiring a Data Engineer to strengthen our data infrastructure. You will build and optimize data pipelines, ingest data from multiple sources, and ensure data quality across analytics environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with SQL, Python, and cloud data platforms, with a focus on reliable, scalable data processing and governance to support reporting and AI initiatives.