Data Operations Engineer – Dublin – Ireland

Job title:

Data Operations Engineer – Dublin – Ireland

Company

Valsoft

Job description

Job Title: Data Operations EngineerCompany: ValsoftLocation: Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)Type: Full-TimeReporting to: Head of Research and DevelopmentValsoft is seeking an experienced Data Operations Engineer to join its R&D team.About Valsoft:Valsoft specialises in acquiring and growing vertical market software companies. Our mission is to provide a permanent home for software businesses, preserving the legacy of their founders while investing in the long-term growth and success of the companies we acquire. We operate and manage a global portfolio of wholly owned software companies, delivering mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Valsoft ensures a time-sensitive integration process and operates a decentralised model, fostering rapid growth through reinvestment in its portfolio.The Role:The Data Operations Engineer at Valsoft designs, builds, and maintains data pipelines, storage solutions, and infrastructure to enable efficient data processing, analytics, and integrations. They focus on ETL/ELT workflows and data processing systems, ensuring clean, structured, and accessible data for analytics, reporting, and product features. As an integral part of the R&D team, they ensure that data is collected, stored, and processed in a way that meets the needs of the business and its customers. They participate in the maintenance and enhancement of mature legacy systems as well as development of new systems, products and features. They are responsible for the performance, reliability, and scalability of the data infrastructure, and they work to ensure that data is accurate, secure, and compliant with regulations and best practices. They are passionate about data, technology, and problem-solving, and they are excited to work with a team of talented engineers to build innovative products that help our customers succeed.Key Responsibilities:

• The Data Operations Engineer will have heavy involvement in almost all aspects of our data intensive SaaS offerings, working alongside other R&D contributors.
• Ownership of data pipeline, ETL/ELT and analytics processes.
• Participate in database design, development & administration.
• Participate in backend application development, specifically all things SQL.
• Key contributor to query design and optimization across all areas of the technology stack.
• Lead the design and building of new data integrations & APIs.
• Handle day-to-day data issues, bugs, inquiries, studies and other projects as needed by our analyst team and customers.

About You:

• Strong experience and enthusiasm for database design, data modeling, schema design, and data warehousing.
• Experience and enthusiasm for data pipeline development & ETL/ELT processes.
• Strong experience and enthusiasm for MySQL and PostgreSQL. MS SQL is a plus.
• Experience with or willingness to master Perl.
• You are self-driven and motivated with a desire to learn new skills and develop yourself and those around you.
• You love to tweak complex queries for performance gains.
• You are eager to learn mature systems and to own and be a good steward of legacy backend applications and technologies.
• You are interested in AI and how it can be applied to solve real world use cases through data.
• Experience with system administration of Linux is a plus.
• Experience with full stack web development, php, React, etc is a plus.
• Legally authorized to work in Ireland and can commute to the Dublin office.

For more information about Valsoft, please visit our website at .We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.#ValsoftG1

Expected salary

Location

Dublin

Job date

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 23:32:31 GMT

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