Data Engineer

Your new company
I'm looking for a Data Engineer who can support our client on a project. The rate is £489 per day inside scope of IR35. This role requires someone who already has active SC Clearance with a government body. The role is fully remote working. Anyone who doesn't have SC Clearance will not be considered.
Your new role
Role descriptionAs a Data Engineer in the AttRep Team you will define and shape the way we build and transform our audit data products. These data products will be used by our front-end Attribute Reputation services (APIs) to provide attribute insights for fraud detection and prevention across the company.
It is vital that CIP Data Engineers are as equally committed to operating, maintaining and improving our pipelines and channels as they are to creating the forward-looking features. We live by the "You build it, you run it" ethos. We would like to develop good software engineers with an interest in working on a data platform as CIP Data Engineers.
The sheer scale of information our data products provide CIP Data Engineers with the opportunity to explore cutting edge & emerging technologies. Engineers should be comfortable reaching out to technology communities in order to learn, share and create new possibilities for our data products. Whether this is focussed on improving the quality of the data we capture or how we summarise and present that data to different audiences, creativity and imagination is a must.
CIP Data Engineers must understand the importance of testing, automation and repeatable reliability, for all of the things we build and run.
This work involves:Munging large data sets from multiple sources, including audit data captured from Digital ServicesCollaborate with multidisciplinary team to provide data business solutions, including publishing data and sharing dataCreating and producing Jupyter notebooksData processing, validation and cleansingSummarizing and enriching data sets for convenient use by consumersSet up, maintain and improve automated data processes
Desired behavioursBe proactive
Responsible and motivated self-starter
User centric attitude
Prioritise people over processes
Drive lean results; understand the value of iterative delivery
Be evidence driven
Advocate for 'doing the right thing'
Help others understand your work through co-participatory design, pairing, demos and documentation
Make complex look and sound simple
Be kind, creative and convincing
How we work:We favour:Breaking down a high-level problem as a team upfront and delivering the core value firstDelivering individual business benefits to production, rather than bundling tasks togetherCollaboration, communication, regular pairing and thoughtful course-correctionTaking the time to write simple and easy to maintain codeWillingness to make and participate in improvements for the greater good of CIPWorking cross-discipline rather than adhering to tightly defined roles.
Knowledge & experienceSecurity clearance (SC-level)Data AnalysisData Transformation and ETLDatabasesUnderstanding of Data Science principlesAWS suite experienceSkilled at returning services to good states in outage situationsUnderstands the importance of testing and automationWorking in a lean, agile environmentWorking in a "you build it you run it" teamExperience coding in continuous integration context
Skills & technologiesEssential:
PythonSparkSQLDatabase experienceAWS Suite

What you'll need to succeed
You will need to have active SC Clearance with a government body

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