Data Engineer

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 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