Senior Azure Data Engineer

Openwork; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000

Job description

The opportunity

This role plays an integral part of the Data Engineering Team, which is implementing a modern analytics solution for Openwork, using Databricks. As a flexible individual with great problem-solving and communication skills you will bring your proven Azure data engineering expertise to provide technical leadership and apply proven practical experience to deliver a modern cloud analytics solution, while at the same time developing the skills of the less experienced members of the team.

To be considered for this position you will need to have experience having implemented Databricks or a warehouse using Databricks.

This is a hybrid role based in our Swindon office, with 2 days a week required in the office.

UK immigration sponsorship available for this opportunity.

The benefits:

• Salary - £55,000 - £75,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 10%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%.
• Critical illness cover.
• Income protection - 1x salary.
• Death in service - 4x salary.
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days.
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Hands-on experience in building Databricks based DWH as per medallion architecture.
• Architecture, design, development, and delivery of enterprise grade data solutions within Microsoft Azure.
• Guide and support junior colleagues to develop their data engineering skills in Azure.
• Work closely with analysts, architects, and stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership in building out a cloud analytics solution.
• Stay up to date on evolving technologies in this field and ensure the Data Platform and the engineering team running it, remain current and adhere to the relevant data governance and compliance policies.
• Act as the technical product owner for the cloud analytics platform (incl. data warehouse, operational data store, semantic layer, and reference data solution).
• Provide technical direction for Data and Business Analysts on the Data Transformation rules for mapping specifications.

What will you need to succeed?

• Hands-on experience in building Databricks based DWH as per medallion architecture.
• Experience in a commercial environment delivering data solutions within the following subject areas: relational database design, data warehouse reference architectures, data migration, MI/BI reporting.
• Proven hands-on Azure Data Engineering experience in delivering pragmatic, data-led solutions to solve critical business challenges.
• Strong Microsoft Azure expertise including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse.
• Experience working in an Agile environment (ideally utilising Azure DevOps).
• Leading data technologies, data storage solutions, data warehousing, data science and IT infrastructure design.
• Knowledge of data architectural patterns and data modelling (e.g., Kimball).
• Modern CI/CD practices.

Why us?

We're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We're also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague's individual differences and identities - just like our financial advice, for us, it's personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.