Data Engineer

We're BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We'll broaden your horizons

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, explore and implement new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax and business consulting. They maintain the tech that keeps us advancing. By testing and adopting the future of financial technical solutions, they find new and exciting ways to drive us forward. In an IT role at BDO, you'll become part of a team that acts as the backbone for our business. We'll give you the training and support you need to achieve your goals.

We'll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, which comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You'll be comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO's partners to help businesses effectively. You'll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

The Data Engineer role is part of the Chief Data Office function and reports to our Data Engineering manager. It is a critical role to deliver on our vision, which is to empower every colleague and client of BDO with data. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team of data and analytics managers, data analysts, and fellow data engineers to develop and manage data products that empower our people to make decisions from data to drive growth activities and bring efficiencies to our processes.

You will be working on a greenfield cloud platform and will play a key role in building out data products that drive value for the firm.

In this busy and rewarding role you'll also:

1. Ingest from a variety of source types
2. Transform raw data to curated
3. Provision curated data sets to our data marketplace for use across the business
4. Ensure that your development on the platform meets our coding and development standards
5. Work as part of a squad following the SCRUM methodology
6. Support the design of data engineering solutions to meet our data product and business requirements

You'll be someone with:

1. Experience and expertise in using SQL and Python and are comfortable using them every day
2. Experience in Azure technologies, particularly SQL DB, Azure Synapse, Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, and PowerBI
3. Experience in processing data from flat files, databases, APIs, data streams and using ETL/ELT development and building stored procedures.
4. A solid understanding of agile working practices and have some experience of working within the SCRUM agile methodology
5. An eagerness to have a real positive impact on the firm, products, clients, and your colleagues

You'll be able to be yourself; we'll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We're committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We're in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values and we're proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. You'll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we've invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO's people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we'll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you'll never stop learning at BDO.

We're looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we're always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help the companies we work with achieve their ambitions.

We've got a clear purpose, and we're confident in our future, because we're adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity, and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

BDO UK provides tax, audit and assurance, advisory and business outsourcing services. Our clients are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.

Our partners and staff are specialists in their fields and have a proactive, flexible approach to helping clients overcome the challenges they face. We aim to be as innovative and entrepreneurial as our clients. Our approach and expertise help us deliver exceptional client service. 95% of our clients would recommend us.

We operate from 17 locations across the UK, covering all major business centres. We employ 8,000 people who are encouraged to bring their best selves to work; taking responsibility for their work and their relationships with clients. All our people share core values that underpin both our culture and the value that we bring to our clients. Our values are also reflected in our continued focus on ESG.

Our firm is distinctive, and we want to preserve and build on the strengths of our culture and the characteristics that make us both successful and different. We look for people from all kinds of backgrounds who share these same qualities.

BDO LLP is a key member of the BDO global network of public accounting, tax, and advisory firms. The firms have representation in 166 countries, with 115,700 people working out of over 1,776 offices worldwide. That's BDO and we are proud to be part of it. Being part of an integrated network of firms across the world provides us with myriad opportunities for success.