Data Management and Validation Engineer

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Data Management and Validation Engineer - £28/hr (Inside IR35) - Coventry (hybrid potential) - 9 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

The Opportunity
Be a part of the team testing the next generation of electrified propulsion systems for luxury automotive products. Our client is at the forefront of development in hybrid and full electric powertrains, aiming to deliver electrifying performance and peerless refinement. This role will work across Electric machine, Electric Drive Unit (EDU), Inverter, Cell, Battery, Power in loop (PiL) and Vehicle in Loop (ViL) test beds. The person in this data validation and management role will be responsible in providing timely, accurate, secured and accessible test data for wider engineering group to enable efficient engineering decisions.

- Data Sources and Data Acquisition
- Data Quality validation
- Data piping
- Data storage
- Data visualisation

The specialist role requires an individual with knowledge of different testing environments data management and validation. The role will require you to work cross functionally to deploy a common approach to data piping, data validation tools as well to build a federated data platform. You will be working towards becoming the Subject Matter Expert for data management and validation and deliver a training package to develop others in order to improve the data quality produced by the team.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Be responsible in data sources and data acquisition, data quality validation, data pipeline, data storage and data visualisation for physical test environment.
- Delivering data quality reviews to support programme targets and prove out chosen technologies.
- Develop calculations, parameterisation, regulations and process of in-house data tool development.
- Be responsible for confirming the facility is performing in repeatable and reproducible measurements compliant to regulations.
- Carry out correlation exercises between test facilities and test beds across test operation.
- Ensure continuous improvement of measurement quality by reviewing the measurement equipment, systems and methods used by providing data.
- Perform calculation and evaluation of test results, particularly of results from internal correlation measurements, and initiate corrective measures as required.
- Cooperate in projects for improving test bed consistency and repeatability (together with experts from internal departments and the Instrumentation & Test Systems business unit).
- Working closely with the subject matter expert for Data Quality ensuring that the team KPI's for Data Quality are met
- Recommend and justify process and other improvements to enable improved quality of data
- Research, communicate and implement best practice data quality methods and improve test field efficiency.
- Investigate best ways of working to make full use of equipment capability to improve data quality
- To continually encourage a growth mind-set across the team
- Coaching and facilitating in best technical practice, knowledge, methods in data validation and management for apprentice, new starter and existing team member development.
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Educated to degree level in a natural science, mathematical or engineering or computing discipline.
- Designing applications in different programming languages (preferable Python)
- Build data systems & pipelines, data validation and management in cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud).
- Data analysis skills, including hypothesis testing, uncertainty analysis, and process variation.
- Ability to work closely with engineering stakeholders influence analysis techniques to inform engineering decisions.
- Develop Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and ability to graphical data presentation.
- Technical / theoretical understanding of physical measurement equipment
- Ability to deliver written reports and technical presentations.
Desirable
- Academic thesis or capstone project in formal field of study.
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Technical knowledge of process, calculation and measurement techniques demanded by both engineering and legislative requirements.
- Experience in measurement science.
- Quantitative understanding of equipment measurement sensitivity

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.
The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.