Data Engineer

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Data Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 7 Month contract based REMOTELY with occasional visits to Swindon.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields -from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

As a data engineer, your main responsibilities will be:
. Develop, maintain and support of ETL routines managed in a cloud-based environment.
. Development and testing of code within the data infrastructure environment, ensuring that appropriate data quality, integrity and alerting is built into all solutions.
. Collaborate with business subject matter experts to understand the organisation's essential data requirements and to manage the organisation's data assets.
. Assessment and evaluation of any proposed data/system changes that might impact data performance, models or reports and recommend amendments if required.
. Support development of processes that ensure standards and procedures are correctly applied and take responsibility for the quality of own work.

You will have:
. Extensive ETL/ELT development project experience including the designing, developing and building of pipelines, preferably including Talend Data Fabric.
. Knowledge of MySQL and SQL Server databases with the ability to query multiple databases.
. Knowledge of Cloud based platforms.
. Experience of relational database design, including physical, canonical and logical design.
. Knowledge of varied software development tools, methods and technologies.
. Java/Python coding experience and exposure to

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.