Lead Data Engineer

Reperio Human Capital Ltd; Galway; Hybrid; EUR 92,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Reperio Human Capital Ltd in Galway is seeking a Lead Data Engineer for a 12-month contract with hybrid working. You will design data models and build cloud data pipelines on Snowflake and AWS, collaborating with technical and business stakeholders.

You will help modernise a large analytics platform used for reporting, forecasting and planning, ensuring data quality, governance and monitoring across production pipelines.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data engineering and analytics platforms.
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills.
• Experience with Snowflake and AWS.
• Production data pipelines experience.
• Knowledge of data warehousing architectures.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing.
• Understanding of data quality, governance and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design data models and build cloud data pipelines.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across tech and business.
• Modernise analytics platform for reporting, forecasting and planning.
• Implement data quality, governance and monitoring across pipelines.

Skills

Data modelling

SQL

Data pipelines

Cloud analytics

Stakeholder mgmt

Data governance

Monitoring

CI/CD

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Git

Terraform

Kafka

Kinesis

Snowpipe

Streams

Job description

I'm currently recruiting for a lead data engineer based in Galway. This is an initial 12-month contract, focusing on hybrid working. Strong day rate available.

About the Role

• Design data models, build cloud pipelines
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders
• Help modernise a large analytics platform used for reporting, forecasting and planning
• Design data models and build cloud data pipelines on Snowflake and AWS Requirements

• Previous experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering or Data Platform Engineering
• Strong data modelling, including conceptual, logical, physical and dimensional modelling
• Proficiency in SQL
• Previous technical experience with Snowflake and AWS
• Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines
• Good knowledge of data warehousing and modern data architectures
• Experience with Git, CI/CD and automated testing
• Understanding of data quality, governance, security and monitoring Desirable
• Experience with real-time streaming or event-driven pipelines, such as Kafka or Kinesis
• Terraform or another Infrastructure-as-Code tool
• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry
• Knowledge of Snowflake features such as Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks or Dynamic Tables