
Data Engineer
Zinkworks
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Athlone • Ireland
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About the role
- Design robust ETL/ELT pipelines across cloud platforms
- Ensure data quality
- Collaborate with diverse teams to modernize telecoms and finance securely
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in SQL and database development (relational + NoSQL)
- Experience with data engineering languages such as Python
- Proven experience building ETL/ELT data pipelines using tools such as: GCP Dataflow, DataForm/dbt, BigQuery Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks AWS Glue / Lambda
- Solid understanding of database design principles, including relational databases and star schema structures
- Proven ability to work effectively with diverse data types, from structured datasets to semi-structured and unstructured sources
- Strong data analysis skills, including profiling, assessing data quality, and identifying patterns to inform data modelling and pipeline design
- Skilled in testing data pipelines, validating transformations, and ensuring data quality through automated and manual testing methods
- Experience with Git, DevOps pipelines
- Strong understanding of security, access control, and compliance standards
- Experience working with graph databases (e.g. Google Spanner, Neo4j, Gremlin) is desirable
- Experience performing Data engineering on GCP is desirable
- Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) is desirable
- Telecommunications industry experience is desirable
- Experience with real‑time streaming and event-driven architectures is desirable
- Experience with agent development and integrating data systems via frameworks like MCP is desirable.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythonETLELTdata engineeringdata analysisdatabase designdata qualitytesting data pipelinesreal-time streaming
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunication