Data Engineer — Unstructured Data & Real-Time Pipelines

Acorn Insurance; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday up to 35 days

Mental health support

Career development

Flexible benefits

Hybrid working

Recognition & events

Job summary

Acorn Insurance is seeking a talented Data Engineer to join our Database and AI Team in Liverpool. You will design and implement robust data ingestion pipelines for unstructured data, build scalable storage (data lakes, NoSQL), and collaborate with data scientists, analysts and engineers to ensure data availability and quality.

Ideal candidates will have experience with unstructured data (voice, chat, image), secure high-performance databases, and a passion for learning.

Qualifications

• Experience dealing with unstructured data including voice, chat and image.
• Proven ability to manage secure, high-performance database environments.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• A passion for continuous learning and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust data ingestion pipelines for unstructured data using modern data engineering tools and frameworks.
• Develop and maintain scalable storage solutions (e.g., data lakes, NoSQL databases) optimized for unstructured data.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to ensure data availability, quality, and usability.
• Apply data parsing, extraction, and transformation techniques (e.g., NLP, OCR, image/audio processing).
• Implement data governance, metadata management, and data cataloging for unstructured data assets.
• Monitor and optimize data workflows for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and security standards.
• Share knowledge and mentor team members
• Stay ahead of the curve with the latest database technologies
• Experience of real time cloud streaming solutions

Skills

Unstructured data

Secure databases

Communication

Learning mindset

Tools

Databricks

Azure Fabric

Confluent/Flink

Job description

Acorn Insurance is seeking a talented Data Engineer to join our Database and AI Team in Liverpool. You will design and implement robust data ingestion pipelines for unstructured data, build scalable storage (data lakes, NoSQL), and collaborate with data scientists, analysts and engineers to ensure data availability and quality.

Ideal candidates will have experience with unstructured data (voice, chat, image), secure high-performance databases, and a passion for learning.