Description
Join our dynamic Data Team as a Data Engineer, where you’ll play a central role in driving the design, development, and optimisation of data pipelines into our data lake. You’ll ensure scalability while supporting multiple business use cases, ultimately delivering significant value to AXA. If you’re passionate about transforming data into actionable insights and thrive in a collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you!
At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.
What you’ll be doing:
- Build, maintain and optimise scalable data pipelines to handle various data types from multiple sources.
- Work on data engineering tasks to meet business demands, refining technical features as required.
- Participate in code reviews, ensuring high-quality code and adherence to coding best practices.
- Implement and enforce best practices for data ingestion, transformation, and processing across the team.
- Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to prepare data for advanced analytics, machine learning and reporting.
- Automate data processes and workflows to reduce manual interventions and improve efficiency.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues within the data pipelines, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.
- Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance and fostering a collaborative team environment.
Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.
What you’ll bring:
- Previous experience as a Data Engineer, working with large-scale data infrastructures.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, with a deep understanding of their application in data engineering.
- Applied experience with Databricks, demonstrating strong knowledge of managing data pipelines and transformations.
- Experience with Azure stack, including Azure data factory V2, Blob/ADLS, Snowflake, Azure analysis services and Cosmos DB.
- Familiar working with structured, semi-structured and unstructured data across various storage solutions.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automating testing, integration and deployment of data solutions.
- Strong understanding of information security and data governance principles, ensuring compliance with regulations.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers, lead small scale projects and conduct thorough code reviews.
- Skilled in explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.
What we offer:
At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:
- Competitive annual salary of £40,000 to £60,000 dependent on experience
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
- 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
- Private health cover
- Wellbeing services & resources
- AXA employee discounts
To apply, click on the ‘apply for this job’ button, you’ll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to .
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Who we are:
AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.
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