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Kerv Digital
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2 weeks ago
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Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits
Where the job is based: (home-based, working with Kerv office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ
Who we are:
Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we're not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients driving extreme value!
With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders.
People come first always we are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Dive into an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.
Who we are looking for:
You are excited by helping customers with data plumbing problems, getting from A to B; but still an engineer at heart, working to best practise in-mind. You learn fast and love to build.
Cloud experience is essential, hands-on skills in Azure preferred.
All backgrounds will always be considered and experience here is far more important, we’re after someone with a numerate background and proven experience working in a data engineering role in an Azure ecosystem.
Required Experience:

  • Creating mapping specifications between legacy and CRM, ERP, Finance applications
  • Integration to D365, Dataverse solutions or other SaaS applications
  • Data Quality Frameworks: Soda.io, Great Expectations, DBT
  • Creation of fault-tolerant data ingestion pipelines in SSIS/ KWS / Data Factory / data flows using Linked Services, Integration Datasets
  • Extracting data from a variety of sources including SQL databases, document databases, graph databases, web APIs, etc.
  • Building dashboards to reconcile migrated data
    Desirable experience:
  • Azure data certifications
  • Azure Synapse: Synapse-link, on-demand SQL engine, dedicated SQL pool
  • Writing unit tests, git Version control
  • Awareness of reliability patterns in ETL pipelines
  • Use of python in Jupyter notebooks for data processing
  • Azure storage technologies and cost/performance characteristics
  • Power BI, DAX, data flows
  • Techniques and tools for sanitizing data prior to use
  • Awareness of Kimball modelling techniques
    We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;
  • happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
  • an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
  • an escalation handler, able to achieve win-win outcomes by utilising the skills across the team
  • ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
  • ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
    What we can do for you:
    We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employees:
  • Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
  • Awesome Environment – all of our employees will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
  • Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
  • Great Benefits – all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
  • Recognition & Growth – Recognized as a 'Great Place to Work' in both the UK and India, our commitment to excellence goes beyond our products and services. Our culture is a testament to the dedicated technologists who work tirelessly to drive our vision forward. Being a part of Kerv Digital means embracing a culture of innovation, collaboration, and mutual respect. Our teams in the UK and India thrive in an atmosphere that promotes continuous learning and growth.
    Join us at Kerv Digital, where we don’t just build groundbreaking technology - we build future.
    Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews
    More on equality:
    At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.
    *Please note: By submitting an application you agree to Kerv Digital’s Trakstar Privacy Notice - Kerv

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