Senior Data Engineer (18-Month Contract)

About the role

Illumina is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Data Engineer for an 18-month contract. The role plays a key part in building and maintaining a common unified framework, data pipelines, data models, data products and data engineering tooling.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain a common unified data framework that integrates data from many sources and systems
• Create and optimize data pipelines for ingesting, processing, transforming and storing large volumes of structured and unstructured data
• Work with data scientists and analysts to turn their data requirements into robust data models
• Develop and maintain data engineering tooling for ingestion, data quality, monitoring and governance
• Troubleshoot data pipeline issues and monitor performance to remove bottlenecks
• Evaluate and integrate third-party data tools and technologies

Required profile

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field (preferred)
• At least 6 years of experience as a Data Engineer, with a proven track record of production-grade data pipelines and data models
• Experience applying AI or intelligent techniques to improve data quality, monitoring or development workflows (preferred)
• Strong troubleshooting, communication and collaboration skills

Required skills

• Proficiency in object-oriented and/or functional languages such as Python, Scala or Java
• Solid understanding of data quality, governance, security and lineage
• Knowledge of C# web development with Microsoft .NET is advantageous