Data Engineer in East Kilbride

Job title: Data engineering specialist
Locations: London One Braham or Birmingham Snowhill or Bristol Assembly (hybrid-3 days onsite)
Start Date: Need candidate who are immediately available to join
Duration: 06 months
IR35: Inside
Job description:
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Analytics Engineer to design and build scalable analytical data models that support business intelligence, reporting and commercial analytics.
The role sits within a multidisciplinary data team responsible for delivering trusted analytical data products used across commercial and marketing teams.
The ideal candidate will combine strong analytical thinking with advanced SQL engineering capability, and will have experience designing analytics-ready datasets used by BI tools or semantic layers. This is not a pipeline engineering role; we are looking for someone experienced in building analytical data models that define consistent business metrics and enable self-service analytic s.
Key Responsibilities
Analytical Data Modelling
Design and implement scalable analytical data models in SQL used by BI tools and analytics platforms.
Build datasets that support consistent business metrics, reporting and analysis.
Implement modelling approaches such as star schemas, denormalised analytical tables and reusable metric layers.
Data Analysis & Profiling
Profile complex datasets to understand data structure, quality and business meaning.
Investigate and interpret source data to inform robust analytical modelling decisions.
Translate business questions into well-structured analytical datasets.
SQL Engineering
Develop robust SQL transformations to convert raw source data into trusted analytical assets.
Ensure analytical models are scalable, performant and maintainable within a cloud data warehouse.
Optimise SQL logic for performance and efficient data proc...