Lead Data Engineer

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Aker SystemsData infrastructure
Remote/Home Based, UKFull-TimeLead
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Required Skills
AWSPythonSQLApache KafkaCI/CD

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience designing and implementing real-time streaming data platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, Apache Pulsar or similar event-driven technologies.
  • Experience building high-volume, low-latency, resilient data pipelines in production.
  • Extensive experience developing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience designing data models for analytical and operational workloads.
  • Proficiency in Python or another modern programming language used for data engineering.
  • Experience configuring, tuning and optimising relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Strong experience with AWS services, including EC2, RDS, Lambda, Athena, Glue, S3 and IAM.
  • Experience in Agile delivery environments, automated testing, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and Git.
  • Experience delivering solutions in UK Public Sector, Utilities, Energy, Water, Financial Services or other regulated industries.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development and deployment of secure, scalable data pipelines and platform components.
  • Design and implement batch and real-time streaming solutions using event-driven architectures.
  • Own technical design decisions across projects, balancing scalability, security, performance and delivery requirements.
  • Lead technical workshops, discovery sessions and architecture discussions with client stakeholders.
  • Assess client data platforms and design approaches for modernisation, migration and integration.
  • Build and maintain data ingestion, transformation and integration capabilities across data sources.
  • Develop cloud-native data platforms using AWS services and open-source technologies.
  • Embed data quality, governance, lineage and security throughout the data lifecycle.
  • Drive code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices.
  • Mentor engineers and support delivery teams across multiple client engagements.
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