Data Engineer

The Recruitment Company; Connacht; On-site; EUR 111,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

The Recruitment Company in Galway, Ireland is seeking a data engineer for a 12-month contract with a day rate. You will design and implement data models and build cloud-native pipelines using Snowflake and AWS to support analytics and forecasting.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions, ensure data quality and governance, and automate deployments with CI/CD and IaC tools like Terraform.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in Data Engineering or related fields.
• Strong data modelling for analytics and reporting.
• Advanced SQL with performance tuning.
• Hands-on Snowflake and AWS experience.
• Experience with data pipelines and streaming tech like Kafka or Kinesis.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and IaC such as Terraform.
• Understanding of data quality, governance, security and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data models to support analytics and forecasting.
• Develop analytics-ready datasets in Snowflake.
• Build scalable data pipelines using AWS and streaming tech.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions.
• Ensure data quality, governance, security and monitoring standards.
• Automate deployments using CI/CD and IaC.
• Maintain production data platforms for reliability and performance.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data modelling

Data pipeline design

Cloud data platforms

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Kafka

Kinesis

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Location: Galway | Contract: 12 months | Day Rate

Your Experience

• 4+ years’ experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering or Data Platform Engineering.
• Strong data modelling expertise, including conceptual, logical, physical and dimensional modelling, with experience designing scalable data models for analytics and reporting.
• Advanced SQL skills, including query optimisation and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and AWS cloud services.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines, ideally using event-driven architectures or real-time streaming technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis.
• Knowledge of data warehousing, operational databases and modern data architectures.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, automated testing and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
• Understanding of data quality, governance, security and monitoring practices.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust conceptual, logical and physical data models to support analytics, reporting and forecasting.
• Develop and maintain high-quality, analytics-ready datasets and data products within Snowflake.
• Build scalable, cloud-native data pipelines and integrations using AWS and streaming technologies.
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into effective data solutions.
• Implement data quality, monitoring, governance and security standards.
• Automate deployments and improve development processes using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Support and continuously improve critical production data platforms, ensuring reliability, performance and scalability.