Data Engineer

The Recruitment Company; Galway; On-site; EUR 96,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

The Recruitment Company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month day-rate contract based in Galway. You will design and modernise a large-scale data platform with a focus on data modelling, cloud-native engineering and analytics-ready data products using Snowflake and AWS.

You’ll work on building robust data models, pipelines and datasets, collaborating with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions, while ensuring quality, governance and security across the

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in Data Engineering or related fields.
• Strong data modelling expertise across conceptual, logical and physical models.
• Advanced SQL with performance tuning and optimisation.
• Hands-on with Snowflake and AWS cloud services.
• Experience building data pipelines, including event-driven or streaming tech.
• Knowledge of data warehousing and modern data architectures.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Understanding of data quality, governance, security and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement conceptual, logical and physical data models for analytics.
• Develop and maintain analytics-ready datasets and data products in Snowflake.
• Build scalable cloud-native pipelines using AWS and streaming tech.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions.
• Implement data quality, monitoring, governance and security standards.
• Automate deployments with CI/CD and IaC practices.
• Support production data platforms to ensure reliability and scalability.

Skills

Data modelling

SQL

Snowflake

AWS

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Terraform

Data warehousing

Git

Data governance

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

Location: Galway | Contract: 12 months | Day Rate

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month day-rate contract based in Galway. You’ll play a key role in developing and modernising a large-scale data platform, with a strong focus on data modelling, cloud-native engineering and delivering reliable, analytics-ready data products using Snowflake and AWS.

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.