Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer (ITDE)

Rate: £470 per day

Duration: 6 months - starting in early January 2027

Location: Telford/Hybrid (2 days per week in office)

Job Description:

Demand on the in the ITDE programme area has increased dramatically necessitating developers to support the build activities to re-start the Data Extract for Exploitation project.

This developer role will be primarily working on Talend, Denodo, and Oracle RDS systems, making use of our existing Talend framework and patterns. Experience of ETL tooling will be needed, preferably Talend but Pentaho/Informatica experience will be transferable. Experience working in Oracle RDS databases will also be required.

Responsibilities:

• Develop project artefacts including (but not limited to) Talend jobs, Denodo virtualisation views, Oracle DDL and SQL, GitLab Pipeline enhancements
• Investigate and resolve any defects / issues raised during testing phases.
• Review colleagues development and test artefacts.
• Support for Production promotion and 'warranty' support
• Conduct Component Testing of developed artefacts (including test data creation)
• Support QAs in conducting test phases and debugging issues identified throughout the development lifecycle
• Create and execute test packs for Component Test automation
• Support Performance Testing phase
• Provide support and guidance to colleagues and mentor junior engineers
• Reporting to Lead engineer and any scrum-of-scrum discussions

Required Skills:

• Talend experience
• Denodo experience
• AWS experience
• Oracle RDS experience