Data Engineer

Data Engineer | Location: Leeds (4 days per week in office with some flexibility) | Salary: £60,000-£80,000

The Opportunity
Our client is seeking a skilled and motivated

Data Engineer

to play a key role in the creation of a

brand-new data platform

within the Azure ecosystem including Azure Data Factory (ADF), Synapse and PySpark / Databricks and Snowflake.

You will be a data ingestion and ETL Pipeline guru, tackling complex problems at source in order to retrieve the data and ensure to can flow upstream to the Snowflake DWH. You will not be an analytics engineer or someone who operates at the latter stages of the development lifecycle unless you have skills and desire to work on data ingestion, ETL / ELT.

Key Responsibilities
Build & Develop

robust ETL / Data Ingestion pipelines leveraging Azure Data Factory, Synapse, PySpark and Python. Connect APIs, databases, and data streams to the platform, implementing ETL/ELT processes.
Data Integrity

– Embed quality measures, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms.
CI/CD & Automation

– Create deployment pipelines and automate workflows.
Collaboration

– Work with stakeholders across

Global IT, Data, and Broking

teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Futureproofing

– Drive the evolution of the data platform, ensuring adaptability for new data sources, analytical models, and emerging technologies.

What You’ll Bring
Extensive hands-on experience

with

Microsoft Azure data tools

(Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, or Azure SQL).
Strong

ETL/ELT

development skills.
Python

experience
Experience with

CI/CD methodologies

for data platforms.
Knowledge of

MS SQL Server, SSIS, Visual Studio, and SSDT projects .

The

Data Engineer

will make a significant impact quickly as this global business who handle HUGE amounts of data build out their new data platform to support them and their clients to be more analytically driven and leverage data to the maximum.

If you’re ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role (will get to learn snowflake if you don't already have it! apply today!