Contract Senior Data Engineer

Are you looking to make a difference? So are we..
Thanks for stopping by! We’re Doctor Care Anywhere: a leading digital platform, with a clear vision to radically transform the future of healthcare – and that all starts with our brilliant team.

From doctors and designers to software developers and marketers – we’re proud of our people, who love working together to enhance patient experiences for the better. It’s why every year, we help over 2 million people speak to a GP by video or phone, anywhere in the world.

Our story started back in 2013, but as we continue to rapidly grow, we’re looking for the very best talent to help us achieve our ambitious goals. If you’re highly motivated, hard-working and ready to dream big – while having lots of fun at the same time – then we want to hear from you today!

Your new role:

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer Contractor to help build and maintain scalable and complex data systems for our expanding company.

Requirements

The key tasks in your new and exciting role with us:

• Examine complex data and turn the data into information and insights
• Understand business processes and data flows
• Build and interrogate ETL processes to maintain data quality
• Build and maintain optimized and highly available data pipelines that translate raw data into powerful features
• Build and maintain reliable and scalable ETL/ELT on big data platforms
• Build data processing frameworks to handle growing databases
• Build and monitor metrics and analyse data
• Develop queries for business projects
• Build a metadata system where all data is maintained and catalogued
• Retrieves and analyses data through the use of SQL, Excel, etc
• Build data loading services for the purpose of importing data from numerous, disparate data sources, inclusive of APIs, logs, relational, and non-relational databases
• Keep track of industry best practices and trends, and through acquired knowledge, take advantage of process and system improvement opportunities

Hopefully a description of you and your experience!:

• Database design, interrogation & programming skills (relational database, advance select queries, indexes and constraints).
• Writes advanced SQL including some query tuning.
• Good understanding on the data warehouse concepts.
• Experience designing and building complete Extract & Loading processes using ADF & Extract, Transformation & Loading processes using SSIS
• Business Intelligence & Data Analytics using multiple tools.
• Software development background married with strong data merging skills
• Previously worked with a large data sets
• Excellent problem solver able to analyse data, identify issues/opportunities, design and implement pragmatic solutions.
• Proven abilities to be pro-active, take initiative and be innovative within a team environment
• Analytical mind within a problem-solving attitude with a keen eye for detail
• Able to work on several projects at the same time and prioritise effectively
• Build deployment pipelines – databases, data factory

Hopefully a description of your Software experience!:

• SQL server integration services
• SQL Server visual studio 2017
• SSIS
• AAS
• DevOps
• Perl
• Python, R
• Advanced excel
• Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Azure SQL Server, Power BI, Tableau or similar BI tools
• SSRS, SSAS
• Azure Data Warehouse environment.
• Power apps
• Git hub
• Jira – Confluence

Benefits

Why you want to work here:

We understand the importance of good health and happiness for our patients and our team is just the same. You should expect to be as supported and valued being a member of our team and have the freedom to make the most of your role and career with us! When you’re part of the team you will have access to:

• Pool Table, PlayStation and karaoke machine
• Beer Fridge Fridays / Free fruit + snacks