Data Engineer Consultant

Viable Data is an innovative technology, data and UX consultancy, delivering excellence through our projects and providing our people with a supportive culture and opportunities for growth and continuous learning.  

We thrive on the challenge of working across different projects, user needs and technologies and our teams and people live this every day. Our people-first approach and culture is central to our growing success as a consultancy.  

We are an all-inclusive equal opportunities employer and proudly celebrate diversity. If you thrive on challenge, have a passion to learn and make a difference, and enjoy being part of a growing multidisciplinary team, look no further and start your Viable career, now.  

About the role  

As a Data Engineer at Viable Data, you will ensure that data is in the right state and format, ready to implement data schemas and models. You will make sure that the data is ready and available for data mining purposes.  

You will join one of our high-performing consulting teams delivering exceptional digital products and services that directly contribute to the delivery of UK policy, economic growth and security.  

This role is largely remote with occasional business essential travel. 

Due to the nature of work, you must be willing to undergo and be capable of achieving SC security clearance 

Requirements

Key responsibilities:

• Develop analysis and design solutions using one or more from: SQL and NoSQL technologies, data streaming, logging and monitoring tools, BI and Data Warehousing solutions and ETL and migration technologies. 
• Communicate with stakeholders to understand client data and processes to identify solutions. 
• Create advanced analytics and statistics techniques to business problems. 
• Effectively communicate insights from a dataset using narratives and visualizations. 

Skills and experience needed:

• Proven experience of working with large volumes of data, applying tools such as SAS, R, Python, SQL, PowerBI, Tableau, Looker  
• Ability to work across different data, cloud and messaging technology stacks. 
• Written and verbal communication abilities 
• A thorough understanding of one or more from: Master Data Management, Data Lineage analysis, Metadata Management, Data Quality assessment and management, Data Transformation and migration  

• Proven analysis skills – experience of various data analysis methods 
• People skills – empathetic, great listener and have a natural curiosity to understand people, their motivations and thought processes.  

Benefits

As well as providing a great place to work that has an amazing culture and the opportunity to work on excellent projects where you will really make a difference, we have a whole host of additional employee benefits.

Our benefits package includes:

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Flexible hours and supportive of remote working
• A Green Energy incentive
• Buy or sell annual leave
• Volunteering day
• A discount portal through Perkbox

Compensation package:

• £45-55k + Company pension contributions
• Annual bonus based on company performance
• 25 days leave + Bank holidays
• 5 days dedicated training allowance, with individual budget
• Personal Development programme, with 6-month review cycles
• Choice of company laptop (MacBook or Windows)