Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Data Platform (Galway)

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

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