IT & Software

Data Engineer

PA Consulting

Belfast · County Antrim · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Data Engineer role, you will design and build scalable AWS-based data solutions to empower client data platforms. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into robust data pipelines, warehouses, and lakes. The position blends delivery on client projects with internal capability-building, underpinned by an inclusive, learning-focused culture. You contribute to high-impact digital transformations that drive measurable outcomes for diverse industries.

Pay / Benefits
  • Private healthcare for you and family
  • 25 days annual leave (+ 0.5 day on Christmas Eve)
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Annual performance-based bonus
  • PA share ownership
  • Cycle to work and tax-efficient benefits
Responsibilities
  • Design and deployment of production data pipelines from ingestion to consumption within a big data architecture
  • Build and maintain data warehouses and data lakes on AWS
  • Collaborate with product, design, and other experts across agile teams to solve client problems
  • Write scripts, APIs, and SQL queries to move and transform data
  • Ingest and curate data from multiple sources using AWS-native tools or custom programming
  • Support internal projects and knowledge sharing within the tech community
Key requirements
  • Problem-solving and analytical thinking
  • Collaborate with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience shaping and deploying data pipelines in big data ecosystems (Java, Python, Scala, Spark, SQL)
  • Experience extracting data via APIs and writing SQL queries
  • Experience processing large structured and unstructured data on AWS (AWS native or custom coding)
  • Collaborative mindset
  • Stakeholder management
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn
  • AWS cloud technologies for ETL, data warehouse, data lake design/build
  • AWS data and analytics services (EMR, Glue, RedShift, Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB)
  • Java, Python, Scala, Spark, SQL

Reference: WJ-747_30165495

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