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Senior BI Data Engineer

Cancer Research UK
Stratford-upon-Avon
4 days ago
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.Senior BI Data Engineer Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office) We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.As a Senior BI Data Engineer, you will play an impactful role in shaping our capability by delivering projects that enable the future of Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), analytics, reporting, and marketing campaign selections and personalisation. Depending on your expertise, you’ll focus on You’ll work closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders to evolve and enhance our BI data platform and data products. Your responsibilities will include delivering robust BI integrations, maintaining star-schema data models, and managing priorities and new requests, whilst ensuring exceptional service quality. In addition, you’ll play a senior role in shaping design patterns and transformation strategies that align with user needs and business objectives. As a mentor and guide, you’ll help the team build expertise, resilience, and best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.Collaborating closely with the requirements owner to identify end-user needs.Collaborating with Quality Assurance to ensure that test plans and cases are targeted effectively, as well as providing iterative builds for testing against prioritised requirements.What skills will I needExperienced BI Data Engineer with experience owning data warehouse products from model design, delivery, release & support in large, complex organisations. Strong understanding and experience of CRM purpose, architecture, and back-end data structures.Engineered scalable andreliablepipelines with knowledge of ETL/ELT concepts, patterns, and CI/CD pipelines.Development experience of:Strong understanding of user needs with the ability to translate them into effective data models, patterns, and transformation strategies that align with business objectives. If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you.We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals. You can explore our benefits by visiting our As the world’s largest independent cancer research charity, we conduct research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Our aim is to see 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034 and our staff are integral to achieving that ambition. Cancer Research UK offers you excellent prospects to expand your career as well as the ability to make a real difference to the lives of others. We're always looking for sharp, brave, and collaborative people to join Cancer Research UK and continue to make it a great place to work. Find the career you're looking for and let us change lives together.
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