Data Engineer

Reporting to the Development Manager, you will be part of our Product Engineering team based in Belfast. This role will require someone based in Northern Ireland and willing to travel to our office in Belfast City Centre. What You'll Be Doing

• Working alongside the application team to help deliver critical features on the product roadmap.
• Design, construct, test, and maintain highly scalable and robust data models using Snowflake to serve multiple applications.
• Administer and manage Snowflake data warehousing environments, including monitoring system health and performance.
• Create, manage, and optimize Snowflake virtual warehouses to match the needs of different applications and ensure efficient use of resources, while minimizing costs.
• Handle Snowflake user access control and permissions, developing and enforcing role and permission restrictions.
• Promote a culture of self-service and decentralized data ownership, empowering the application team to use and manage their data with minimum dependencies.
• Enforce data governance policies to ensure data standardization, quality, and compliance across all teams.
• Collaborate with internal SMEs on projects to ensure alignment with organizational requirements.
• Provide technical assistance and cross-training to other team members as required.

• 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, Software Developer, or Administrator with a focus on data modelling, data governance, and data platform administration.

• Highly skilled in SQL.

• Experience working with multiple database technologies and paradigms (MSSQL, PostgresSQL, OLAP, OLTP, etc)

• Familiar with various ETL and ELT tools and methodologies.

• Experience with database health monitoring, stored procedures, schema design for high volume and concurrency.

• Understanding and practical experience of data governance principles.

• Understanding of system design and development in cloud environments, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Nice to Haves

• Experience working with Snowflake is a plus

• Experience with Azure is a plus

• Experience working with MDM (master data management)

• Knowledge of Python for data transformation, pipeline development, and automation.

• Knowledge of data mesh

Benefits & Perks! You will have fantastic benefits at ESO including but not limited to; + Life insurance (4 x base salary) + Income protection insurance + A generous pension contribution + Private medical insurance including optical and dental + A health cash plan + Modern City Centre office and a flexible hybrid working policy + AwardCo Recognition Program + Enhanced paternity leave and pay, enhanced adoptive pay, enhanced maternity pay - 12 weeks full pay after 6 months' service. + Enhanced short and long-term sick pay + 25 days holiday which increases year on year until you reach 5 years of service + 14 additional days About ESO ESO is a fast-paced, growing data, technology and research company passionate about improving community health and safety through the power of data. We pioneer innovative, user-friendly software to meet the changing needs of today's EMS agencies, fire departments, and hospitals. We're small enough to be nimble and fun, but big enough to be a great place to work. We serve thousands of customers out of our offices across the US, Canada and Northern Ireland.