Data Engineer, 12m FTC

About Our Client

We are recruiting on behalf of our client, a leading provider of broadband, TV, mobile, and business connectivity services across Ireland. With a focus on delivering innovative, high-speed solutions, our client supports Irish consumers, businesses, and public sector organisations through award-winning products and services. Their broadcast division is a key player in Irelands commercial media landscape, producing homegrown content and offering extensive sports coverage.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic, data-driven organisation that prioritises technology and innovation.

About the Role

The Data Engineer will develop and deliver business-enhancing capabilities to improve performance and decision-making across retail, commercial, and strategic teams. This role will also support fibre rollout strategies and enable data-driven decision-making at the senior executive level.

You will work as part of a small, high-performing data management team in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners to build, manage, and optimise enterprise-level reporting and data solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and automate data assets from multiple sources to improve business performance and drive efficiencies

• Integrate data using Informatica and Snowflake cloud data platform (SQL)

• Build and maintain data models within the enterprise data warehouse (Snowflake)

• Promote new data sets and reporting capabilities into production systems

• Design data solutions that enable self-service analytics for users of varying skill levels

• Develop and maintain reporting structures that provide accurate, timely, and insightful business intelligence

• Deliver data models to support ongoing performance optimisation and commercial decision-making

• Ensure data governance and validation processes are followed throughout all developments

• Collaborate with business intelligence developers to map reporting requirements to appropriate technology stacks

• Manage enterprise data integration flows (ETL / ELT) using Informatica

• Support the Data Management Manager in coordinating outsourced partners and prioritising stakeholder needs

Specific Duties

• Create automated data flows and assets to enhance business performance

• Build, validate, and promote data models and warehouse objects

• Engage in the release management lifecycle including data acquisition, UAT builds, validation, and sign-offs

• Develop a commercial understanding of the business to assess the accuracy and relevance of data sets

• Translate complex technical requirements into understandable solutions for non-technical users

• Design, deploy, and support KPI and metric reporting across the organisation

• Enable analytics self-service by creating accessible data models, tools, and providing user coaching

Skills & Experience Required

• 3rd level qualification in computing, data analytics, or a related field

• Hands-on SQL development experience with exposure to Snowflake and Oracle database architectures

• Strong understanding of data structures and source system mapping

• Experience creating data assets that support KPI reporting and strategic decision-making

• Familiarity with ETL/ELT processes using Informatica

• Ability to communicate technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience working with release processes, data validation, and vendor collaboration

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, complex environment with a strong passion for data and analytics