Senior Engineer, Data Engineering - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Digital Waffle

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    Description
    Data Engineer
    Hybrid 1x every 2 weeks)
    £ETL, SQL, Data Migration, Azure data house


    Act as a key member of the Data and Analytics Team, working directly with various stakeholders from across the business, designing stable and reliable data repositories, proactively monitoring the company's existing reporting solutions and participating in the design and implementation of the associated data hub, storage and integration environments.

    Developing the data platform, testing, improving, and maintaining new and existing data technologies and data feeds.

    Drive best practices for our Azure Data Warehouse - payload design, logical data modeling, implementation, metadata, and testing standards.

    Proactive cost optimisation of our Data Warehouse, spotting opportunities to refactor to reduce the cost of our batch jobs
    Support the building of robust data models downstream of backend services that support internal business intelligence as well as financial/regulatory reporting
    Supporting the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery and security of the company's data technology
    Managing solutions across distributed data centres and data platforms
    You have experience and a passion for data warehousing, big data and ETL projects
    SQL is second nature to you
    You've worked on a wide range of Data Warehouse problems -regulatory reporting, Business Intelligence, financial reporting projects and supporting Machine Learning
    You have experience building robust and reliable data sets requiring a high level of control
    Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL Database technologies
    Azure Data Bricks and Azure Data Factory
    In-depth understanding of data management (e.g. permissions, recovery, security and monitoring)
    Experience/Knowledge of working in an agile environment and experience with agile methodologies such as TDD, Scrum, Kanban
    Used to AGILE ways of working (Kanban, Scrum) tracked in JIRA
    Tableau or Power BI as a visualization tool
    Familiarity with C#.NET, PHP, JSON and the data access options of the language
    Able to communicate in another language (Spanish, Italian, French, German)