Data Engineer

Sparta Global are hiring a team of 3 mid-level Data Engineers, to join on 12-Month Fixed-Term-Contracts, and work fully remotely within the UK. Overview: This role will suit someone with solid hands-on engineering experience who is comfortable working across cloud-based environments, modern data tooling, and open-source technologies. You’ll work closely with analysts, software engineers, and stakeholders to help deliver reliable, high-quality data solutions that support operational and analytical use cases. Key Responsibilities • Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines • Develop and optimise data workflows within AWS cloud environments • Work with structured and unstructured datasets from multiple source systems • Build and maintain data models to support reporting, analytics, and downstream applications • Ensure data quality, integrity, and governance standards are maintained • Support the migration and integration of data between platforms and services • Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline and platform performance issues • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and product teams in Agile delivery environments • Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering standards, tooling, and automation practices Skills & Experience Required: • Commercial experience as a Data Engineer or similar engineering-focused data role • Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases • Experience developing data pipelines using Python or similar programming languages • Hands-on experience working within AWS environments, ideally with services such as S3, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, RDS, Athena, IAM • Experience working with open-source data technologies and frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Spark, Kafka, dbt, Hadoop • Experience working with APIs and data integration patterns • Understanding of CI/CD, version control, and engineering best practices • Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery teams