Data Engineer

Contract Data Engineer

3 month initial contract (with good chance of extension)

Manchester, 2 days per week on-site

Outside IR35

Start before Christmas

Overview

My client are a well knwon organsation just outside Manchester looking for a contract Data Engineer. You will review and improve a live Google Cloud data platform. You will lead ingestion, transformation, quality, and reporting enablement. You will work with data colleagues on shared standards and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Review the central data platform architecture, pipelines, and code standards
• Improve scalability, performance, monitoring, and disaster recovery
• Audit all data sources across the business
• Build secure ingestion pipelines for new sources
• Design and build reporting tables for business dashboards
• Support Looker dashboard development
• Define and implement a single customer view
• Build automated matching, deduplication, and cleansing pipelines
• Embed automated data quality checks across all pipelines
• Implement monitoring and alerting for data failures and anomalies
• Apply GDPR, encryption, access control, and data masking standards
• Run regular status check-ins with internal data colleagues
• Own data definitions, glossary, and metric governance
• Transform data using Python as the core language
• Load processed data into GCP test and production environments
• Provide access to data via Tableau, Google Sheets, and Python scripts
• Produce full documentation and an entity diagram

Core Skills

• Strong hands-on Data Engineering experience
• Advanced Python for data transformation
• Google Cloud Platform production experience
• Data pipeline design and optimisation
• Data quality automation and monitoring
• Customer data and identity matching
• GDPR and data governance delivery
• Stakeholder communication in agile teams
• Looker or Tableau exposure
• BigQuery data modelling
• Experience building single customer views