Data engineer

Level

Higher

Length

2 yrs

typical

Sector

Digital

Pay

Paid

you earn while training

In a nutshell

Build systems that collect, manage, and convert data into usable information for data scientists, data analysts and business intelligence analysts to interpret.

What you'd do

Design and build data pipelines to ingest data from multiple source systems

Transform, clean, and load data into data warehouses or data lakes

Monitor pipeline performance and investigate and fix data quality failures

Optimise SQL queries and data processing jobs for speed and cost efficiency

Collaborate with data analysts and scientists to understand data requirements

Manage version control, testing, and deployment of data engineering code

What you'd learn

Database design including relational, NoSQL, and data warehouse architectures

Building and maintaining ETL/ELT data pipelines using Python, Spark, or similar tools

Cloud data platform services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

Data modelling techniques including star schema and dimensional modelling

Data quality frameworks, testing, and monitoring of pipeline health

Version control, CI/CD practices, and DataOps principles for data engineering

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