Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Liverpool, UK

Salary: £65,000 - £70,000 per annum, depending on experience

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm

We are seeking a talented and experienced Data Engineer to join our innovative and collaborative Database and AI Team. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping our data strategy and driving business success. Your skills will contribute directly to our forward-thinking initiatives. At Acorn we value and prioritise innovation, teamwork, and continuous development.

Key part of this role is to support our strategic data goals, ensuring system resilience and performance, and building secure, scalable database architectures.

What you will be doing:

Design and implement robust data ingestion pipelines for unstructured data using modern data engineering tools and frameworks.

Develop and maintain scalable storage solutions (e.g., data lakes, NoSQL databases) optimized for unstructured data.

Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to ensure data availability, quality, and usability.

Apply data parsing, extraction, and transformation techniques (e.g., NLP, OCR, image/audio processing).

Implement data governance, metadata management, and data cataloging for unstructured data assets.

Monitor and optimize data workflows for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

Ensure compliance with data privacy and security standards.

Share knowledge and mentor team members

Stay ahead of the curve with the latest database technologies

Experience of real time cloud streaming solutions

What we are looking for:

Essential Skills:

Experience dealing with unstructured data including voice, chat, image

Proven ability to manage secure, high-performance database environments

Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

A passion for continuous learning and innovation

Desirable skill:

Databricks

Azure Fabric

Confluent/Apache Flink Knowledge

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