Senior Data Engineer

Contract Senior Data Engineer

Salary: Up to 550 a day depending on experience

Location: Ideally 1/2 days in the head office (Edinburgh), with the possibility of remote working

Duration: 6-month contract (Outside IR35)

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Project overview

The client is migrating to POSTGRESQL from their current oracle database -Strata in support of one of their key product lines.

Main accountabilities

• Focussed on delivering scalable database platforms that underpins the clients customer data services in a dynamic and fast-moving agile engineering environment
  
• Post Production support of a PostgreSQL implementation, working with existing team members to provide support following the implementation of new System within the bank
  
• Managing incidents, problems and change in line with best practice
  
• Expected to lead and inspire others in your team and department, drive engineering best practice and compliance, strategic direction, encourage collaboration and transparency
  
• Provide guidance and training on PostgreSQL management and utilisation to other team members
  
• Being the PostgreSQL Subject Matter Expert
  
• Capable of building a team or Centre of Excellence
  
  

Requirements

Essential skills and experience

• An expert with different types of enterprise application databases(PostgreSQL is a MUST)
  
• Must have leadership skills (experience of managing a team)
  
• Proficient using SQL to interrogate, analyse and report on customer data and interactions on live systems and in testing environments
  
• Proficient using Oracle PL/SQL or PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL
  
• Experienced delivering deployments and infrastructure as code with automation tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, etc
  
• Comfortable using code hosting platforms for version control and collaboration. (git, github, etc)
  
• Exposed to automation and have utilised some or all of technologies and tools like Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, GitHub, Nexus, Jenkins, Packer, Bash Scripting, Python, Groovy and Ansible
  
• Comfortable leading complex investigations into service failures and data abnormalities that touch your applications
  
• Experience with Batch and ETL methodologies
  
• Confident making technical decisions and acting on them (within reason) when under pressure.
  
• Calm dealing with stakeholders and easily be able to translate complex technical scenarios to non-technical individuals
  
• Ability to hit the ground running.
  
  

Desirable / additional skills

• Familiar with developing in a Cloud environment (AWS RDS, DMS & DevOps).