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Data Engineer - in-depth Python, PostgreSQL, AWS

Richard Wheeler Associates
Posted 9 hours ago, valid for 2 days
Location

London, Greater London E10 6EJ, England

Salary

£48,000 - £57,600 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Data Engineer position requires in-depth experience in Python and PostgreSQL, with a focus on building operational and analytical data warehouses from scratch.
  • Candidates should have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in Python and be very comfortable with SQL, preferably PostgreSQL.
  • The role offers a salary range of £50,000 to £75,000 plus benefits and involves working one day a week in central London.
  • The company is a digital surgery scale-up with a growing customer base in the UK, Europe, US, and Australia, partnering with a billion-dollar US healthcare company.
  • The ideal candidate should have a growth mindset, teamwork skills, and familiarity with foundational AWS products and CI/CD practices.

Data Engineer - in-depth Python, PostgreSQL, AWS

Hybrid - a day each week central London

£50-75k + benefits

The Data Engineer will be core to the design and implementation of a new operational data warehouse and a new analytical data warehouse from scratch.

The current tech stack is Python, PostgreSQL on RDS, Airflow and Snowflake. This is NOT a role where you’ll be just configuring data tooling… it’s hardcore Python and SQL coding!

The company is a digital surgery scale-up (launched in 2016) with a rapidly growing customer base across the UK, Europe, US and Australia, working with prestigious healthcare clients.

Sustained growth and a partnership with a billion-dollar US healthcare company underpins this opening for a talented Data Engineer to help take their data infrastructure and pipelines to the next level.

The role:

  • Helping to rebuild reporting interfaces across the product and the analytics warehouse. You will be core to creating the infrastructure for this effort as well
  • Working with the backend team to assist with data optimisation, real-time data queries, and other infrastructure projects
  • Proactively analysing and improving the quality of the systems: including performance, scalability, maintainability, test coverage and documentation

You will need:

  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with Python. Python is the core competency hence it’s crucial for you to be intimately familiar with collaborative Python development
  • Very comfortable with SQL, preferably PostgreSQL
  • Growth mindset: a love of learning and resilience in the face of odds
  • Team mindset
  • CI/CD and modern software testing
  • Foundational AWS products and systems, such as RDS, S3 and EC2

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.