Data Engineer

Data Engineer
Fully remote working
Salary up to £55,000 per annum + Benefits

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to join a large retailer, known for their sustainability ethos within a Data Engineer role. The company are based in the Midlands and the position is FULLY REMOTE.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensure quality data is ingested into the data warehouse to capture reliable and accurate insights.
• Manage a range of data sources and make sure the data platform for analytics is ingesting and structuring data correctly.
• Understand the structure and meaning of data in multiple internal and external data sources.
• Create logical and physical operational data stores, staging areas, dimensional models and analytical datasets.
• Design, develop and build unit tests, and deliver processes that extract data from sources, transform data to implement business logic
• Implement data cleansing activities in ETL and help define business rules to support data quality.
• Adapt ETL processes to accommodate changes in business requirements or source systems.
• Communicate with key stakeholders to understand requirements.

Skills required:

• A strong understanding of Microsoft Azure (Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Synapse, Databricks)
• A solid understanding of data concepts and data modelling principles, applied across traditional warehousing and modern data lakes.
• Experience of building Azure functions.
• A broad understanding of BI information exploitation methods including ad hoc queries, data mining techniques, data visualisation, Real Time intelligence and data exploration
• Practical experience of using Microsoft Azure Dev Ops and CI/CD
• Expert SQL knowledge
• Proficient in Python, PySpark
• The ability and desire to mentor more junior members of the team
• Strong communication skills
• Experience of building data pipelines in Fabric is desirable but not essential.

This is a great opportunity for a Data Engineer who is looking to upskill and progress within a forward-thinking organisation who offer a very healthy work/life balance.

If you are interested, please apply for full details.