Data Engineer

Isio
Birmingham
1 month ago
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Isio has embarked on a data‑warehouse journey to provide repeatable business insights. The Data Engineer will build and maintain the Azure data‑warehouse solution, ensuring efficient design, robust reporting, and easy stakeholder access to data.


The role reports to the System Operations Manager and collaborates with IT and business stakeholders across the firm. It offers an opportunity to shape how data informs decision‑making, extend the Azure warehouse with new integrations, and support smarter, faster decisions at every level.


Location: Birmingham city centre office (hybrid workstyle).


Role & Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with IT and internal teams, notably Finance, to roadmap business use cases for ingestion into the data warehouse.
  • Own, monitor, and evolve the current Azure data warehouse, applying engineering best‑practice (source‑to‑target mappings, coding standards, data quality).
  • Create and maintain ETL processes, data mappings, and transformations to orchestrate data integrations.
  • Ensure data integrity, quality, privacy, and security across systems, in line with regulatory requirements.
  • Optimise data solutions for performance and scalability; explore and recommend new data‑management techniques.
  • Adhere to Isio’s software engineering best practices (design, review, unit testing, monitoring, alerting, source‑code management, documentation).
  • Act as a subject‑matter expert and point‑of‑contact for data assets within the business.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs and create data models accordingly.
  • Maintain and update documentation in Confluence on a regular basis.

Key Skills & Experience

  • Senior or lead data‑engineering experience.
  • Hands‑on Azure Data Factory for ETL orchestration.
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric Products.
  • Strong SQL skills, including queries, stored procedures, and database design.
  • Monitoring, data‑quality exception handling, and CI/CD pipeline development.
  • API integration between disparate cloud systems.
  • Analytical and problem‑solving abilities, working independently and collaboratively.
  • Knowledge of security best practices (GDPR, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials).
  • Business Intelligence expertise, ideally Power BI for reporting.
  • Experience in financial services and both Waterfall and Agile environments.
  • Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate Certification (preferred).

What we offer you

Isio values its people and offers significant development opportunities and career progression within a supportive, inclusive workplace. You will work in a hybrid setting that supports a healthy work‑life balance.


For reasonable adjustments during recruitment, please email .


Isio is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.


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