Data Engineer - Junior

Orbit Group
Binley Woods, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Last month
£37,500 – £40,779 pa

Salary

£37,500 – £40,779 pa

Seniority
Junior
Posted
17 Apr 2026 (Last month)

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

Orbit are delighted to announce that we are recruiting for a Junior Data Engineer. In this role you will be responsible for the practical delivery of end-to-end Data Engineering activities utilising Azure technologies to import data to a central data warehouse where it is modelled to create business ready InfoMarts for consumption in PowerBI.

You will also work as part of the Data Engineering team to embed best practice for the design, implementation, delivery and support numerous complex dataflows to connect operational systems.

This will be an agile working role, which will require you to travel into our offices to work onsite roughly one day per week (this can fluctuate subject to business need).

What you'll achieve

Your key responsibilities will be to:

Responsible for the practical delivery of a range of data engineering activities within the central data team to produce relevant data models to support business reporting requirements

To support the lead data engineer in the maintenance and development of Orbit’s central data platform including responding to technical issues and supporting the deployment activities across the development, test and production environments

Embed and document best practice processes within the Data Engineering team

Utilise Azure DevOps in line with Data Engineering ways of working for source control, development, deployment pipelines and testing. Ensuring any assigned DevOps activities have the required level of detail and time spent on the task is logged

Review requirements, specifications and define test conditions. Identify issues and risks associated with work while being able to analyse and report test activities and results.What you'll bring

To be successful in this role of Junior Data Engineer you will need to have excellent analytical skills with attention to detail, you will also need experience working on SQL database development solutions within Visual Studio.

Essential skills

Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail

Experience working on SQL database development solutions within Visual Studio.

ETL skills (min SSIS) preferably Data Factory and Synapse pipelines

Knowledge of developing data warehouse solutions, modelling Fact and Dimension tables.

Working knowledge of Azure DevOps methodologies for Agile projects. Using DevOps for source control, development, testing and deployment pipelines.

Good communication skills able to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Experience gathering requirements, doing business analysis and working with SME’s to build/refine a requirements backlog.

Ability to write technical documents and data dictionariesDesirable skills

Experience of D365 and ActiveH systems

Knowledge/experience of Microsoft Purview

Knowledge of Housing Association/Local Authority or Property Development datasets

Familiar with Azure architecture for development and deployment of data infrastructure

Knowledge and/or practical application of Data Vault MethodologyWhy Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

Online application

Interview(s)

Decision and offerWe put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check

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