Contract Data Engineer

3 month initial contract (with good chance of extension)

Manchester, 2 days per week on-site

Outside IR35

Start before Christmas

Overview

My client are a well knwon organsation just outside Manchester looking for a contract Data Engineer. You will review and improve a live Google Cloud data platform. You will lead ingestion, transformation, quality, and reporting enablement. You will work with data colleagues on shared standards and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

* Review the central data platform architecture, pipelines, and code standards

* Improve scalability, performance, monitoring, and disaster recovery

* Audit all data sources across the business

* Build secure ingestion pipelines for new sources

* Design and build reporting tables for business dashboards

* Support Looker dashboard development

* Define and implement a single customer view

* Build automated matching, deduplication, and cleansing pipelines

* Embed automated data quality checks across all pipelines

* Implement monitoring and alerting for data failures and anomalies

* Apply GDPR, encryption, access control, and data masking standards

* Run regular status check-ins with internal data colleagues

* Own data definitions, glossary, and metric governance

* Transform data using Python as the core language

* Load processed data into GCP test and production environments

* Provide access to data via Tableau, Google Sheets, and Python scripts

* Produce full documentation and an entity diagram

Core Skills

* Strong hands-on Data Engineering experience

* Advanced Python for data transformation

* Google Cloud Platform production experience

* Data pipeline design and optimisation

* Data quality automation and monitoring

* Customer data and identity matching

* GDPR and data governance delivery

* Stakeholder communication in agile teams

* Looker or Tableau exposure

* BigQuery data modelling

* Experience building single customer views