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Senior Data Engineer – 6 Month Contract

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Location

United Kingdom

Posted

6 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Data Engineer – 6 Month Contract

Prolific

• Build and maintain data pipelines that power analytics, ML workloads, and product-facing applications • Evolve our data platform alongside cloud platform engineers • Design and implement scalable data infrastructure • Develop data services and APIs that expose trusted data to product applications • Own data quality and observability • Partner with AI engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product teams to understand their data needs • Uphold strong data privacy, security, and compliance practices

Job Requirements

  • 3+ years building and shipping production grade data systems
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Proficiency in Python or another object-oriented language (Java, Scala etc.)
  • Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure - ideally some exposure to Terraform, Kubernetes, or similar IaC and container orchestration tools
  • Experience designing data APIs or services that expose data to applications
  • A thoughtful approach to data quality, privacy, and security
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Hands on experience with data pipeline tools (Airflow, dbt)
  • Commitment to continuously improving product quality, security, and performance through rigorous testing and code reviews
  • Meticulous approach to creating and maintaining architecture and systems documentation
  • Ability to work across teams to understand and address diverse data needs
  • Desire to continually keep up with advancements in data engineering practices and technologies
  • Exceptional analytical skills to troubleshoot complex data issues and implement effective solutions
  • Capability to ship medium features independently

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture

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