Data Engineer

Job Title: Data EngineerLocation: Liverpool, UKSalary: 65,000 - 70,000 per annum, depending on experienceJob Type: Permanent, Full TimeWorking Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pmWe 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 ..... full job details .....