Data Engineer at University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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on-site · full time · Visa sponsorship
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Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain a robust, well-governed database for livestock data from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
- Ingest, clean and harmonise complex and imperfect datasets; document transformations and data lineage.
- Implement metadata, governance and security controls to make datasets AI-ready and compliant with regulations.
- Collaborate with researchers, stakeholders and IT to integrate data sources, define standards and ensure quality.
- Produce clear documentation, data dictionaries and reproducible pipelines to support reuse and transparency.
- Monitor data quality, troubleshoot issues and drive continuous improvement in data processes.
Requirements:
- Proven data engineering experience building and maintaining complex, regulated datasets and databases.
- Strong skills in data cleaning, harmonisation, database design and ETL pipeline development.
- Attention to detail, methodological approach and experience applying data governance and security practices.
- Experience working with research or private-sector data and familiarity with LMIC data challenges is desirable.
- Good communication and collaboration skills to work with multidisciplinary teams.
- Commitment to producing high-quality, well-documented, and AI-ready data assets.