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Posted 5 months ago
Data Engineer — Climate & Sustainability Analytics
Unknown country — UTC (UTC+0)
We are an environmental science nonprofit. We monitor deforestation, biodiversity loss, and freshwater stress in tropical regions using a combination...
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Analytics Engineer — Hospitality Revenue Intelligence
United Kingdom — London (UTC+1)
We operate a collection of 28 boutique hotels across the UK and Ireland. We have been in business since 2008. We went through a difficult period durin...
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Our organisation is a regional healthcare network comprising 12 hospital sites, 3 specialist centres, and a group of 47 affiliated outpatient clinics....
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Our company was founded in Osaka in 1987 and has operated data infrastructure for the Japanese financial services sector for nearly four decades. Thre...
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We sell fleet management software to mid-size trucking companies in the US and Canada. It is not a sexy product category. Our customers are not ventur...
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ML Data Pipeline Migration – Hadoop to AWS Spark
United States — Chicago (UTC-5)
We are migrating our entire ML data processing layer from a legacy Hadoop and Hive environment to a modern Spark-on-AWS architecture. The existing pip...
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We are the data infrastructure function for a London-based asset management firm with £14 billion under management. Our data team of twelve is respons...
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We are building the data foundation for a Series B fintech and need an analytics engineer who lives and breathes dbt. You will model our raw data into...
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Our analytics stack is a combination of good decisions made three years ago, legacy choices that made sense at the time, and a few things we built und...
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Our dbt project is a mess. Forty models, no tests, documentation nobody has touched in six months, and a naming convention that only one person unders...
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Every AI system starts with a data pipeline
Data engineers build and run the systems that move, clean and model data: ingestion, ETL and ELT pipelines, warehouses and lakehouses, streaming, and the quality checks that make analytics and machine learning trustworthy. AI has made the role more important, not less — models are only as good as the data that reaches them.
The roles below come from data infrastructure companies, AI labs and product teams. They range from analytics engineering (SQL, dbt, modelling for analysts) to platform work (Spark, Kafka, orchestration, cost and reliability at scale). Read each listing to see which side it leans to.
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Data engineering pays close to software engineering, with a premium for streaming, platform and ML-data experience. Each listing shows the range the employer published.
Describe pipelines you own
Volume, sources, freshness, failure handling. "Ingests 2 TB/day from 40 sources with 15-minute freshness" says more than a tool list.
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Tests, contracts, monitoring and alerting. Teams hire data engineers who prevent bad data, not only move it.
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Each listing links to the official application. Mention the warehouse and orchestration tools you match.
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How to stand out as a data engineer
Not all profiles get responses. These are the signals that separate candidates who get interviews from those who don't.
SQL and data modelling
Dimensional models, dbt, clear and fast SQL — the base of every data engineering interview.
Orchestration
Airflow, Dagster, Prefect: scheduling, retries, backfills and dependencies done right.
Streaming
Kafka, Flink or Spark Streaming experience is rarer and better paid.
Cloud warehouses
Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift — including cost control.
Data for ML
Feature pipelines, training datasets, embeddings and vector stores connect data engineering to AI teams.
Reliability
SLAs, lineage, incident handling. Pipelines that run quietly for months are the goal.
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FAQ
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Everything you need to know before applying for your first data engineer role.
A data engineer builds the systems that collect, move, clean and store data so analysts, products and machine learning models can use it — pipelines, warehouses, streaming and data quality checks.
Analytics engineers focus on modelling data inside the warehouse for analysis, mostly with SQL and dbt. Data engineers usually own ingestion, infrastructure and platform reliability. Many listings mix both.
SQL and Python first, then a cloud warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), an orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster), dbt, and for platform roles Spark or Kafka.
Yes. AI teams depend on training data, feature pipelines and retrieval data. Data engineers who understand ML data needs move naturally into ML platform and AI infrastructure roles.
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