Data Engineer

Data Engineer 📍 Galway, Ireland (4 Days Per Week Onsite) 💰 Up to €450 Per Day 📅 12-Month Contract We're recruiting for a Data Engineer to join a large-scale customer operations and analytics environment, helping to build and evolve a modern analytics platform that supports reporting, workforce planning, forecasting, operational insights, and wider transformation initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to work on business-critical data platforms that support millions of customer interactions annually. You'll play a key role in designing scalable data solutions, developing cloud-native data products, and enabling data-driven decision making across the organisation. The Role As a Data Engineer, you will: - Design and develop scalable data models to support analytics and operational reporting - Build and maintain analytics-ready datasets and curated data products - Develop event-driven data pipelines using cloud and streaming technologies - Partner with business and technology stakeholders to deliver robust data solutions - Implement data quality, monitoring, observability, and resilience capabilities - Apply best practices across data governance, security, privacy, and access management - Automate deployments using CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code - Support and enhance critical production data platforms Key Skills & Experience - Strong experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or Data Platform Engineering - Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline - Expertise in data modelling, including conceptual, logical, physical, and dimensional modelling - Strong SQL development, query optimisation, and performance tuning experience - Experience working with OLTP databases and Operational Data Stores (ODS) - Experience designing analytics-ready datasets for reporting, forecasting, and business intelligence - Strong understanding of data warehousing, distributed systems, and modern data architectures - Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices - Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills Technical Skills - Data Modelling & Data Warehousing - SQL Development - AWS (S3, Lambda, SNS, SQS, IAM, Aurora/RDS, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch) - Kafka, Kinesis, or other streaming technologies - REST APIs and integration patterns - CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation) - Monitoring, Alerting, and Observability - Data Governance, Metadata Management, Security, and Data Masking - Enterprise Analytics Platforms on AWS or Azure - Power BI, Tableau, or similar BI tools - Data Governance platforms such as Collibra or Alation What's on Offer - 12-Month Contract - Up to €450 per day - Galway-based role - 4 days per week onsite - Opportunity to work on large-scale data and analytics platforms using modern cloud technologies - Collaborative Agile environment with a strong focus on engineering best practices 📩 If you're interested, please apply with your latest CV and contact details for immediate consideration