Data Engineer
| Posting date: | 11 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £271.57 to £350 per day |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 March 2026 |
| Location: | Newbury, South East, RG14 5LG |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | ESSENTIAL EMPLOYMENT LTD |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | MP225171CT1757-5289648-11022026 |
Summary
Data Engineer needed in Newbury Paying £271.57 per day ref 5289648
Full time hours on a temporary basis
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using SSIS in production environments.
- Engineer high‑quality data integration solutions following best‑practice patterns including incremental loads, CDC, SCD, data quality rules, idempotency, and error handling.
- Manage and optimise Microsoft SQL Server environments (2016), ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Build and maintain dimensional models, relational schemas, and analytical data structures (Kimball approach preferred).
- Support the full project management life cycle, including requirements gathering, technical design, documentation, testing, deployment, and post‑release support.
- Deliver application support, maintenance, and root‑cause analysis across critical data and reporting systems.
- Implement and enhance data governance practices, including metadata definition, cataloguing, lineage tracking, and quality frameworks.
- Develop and schedule workflows using SQL Server Agent, SSISDB deployment pipelines, SSIS logging, and/or orchestration tools.
- Produce high‑quality technical documentation for processes, data flows, and solution components.
If you are interested in the role, please email your CV to verity@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.
Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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