Senior Data Engineer

• Working with multiple stakeholder communities to understand our data needs and create pipelines to take data between different layers in the platform
• Ensuring the technical infrastructure is in place and appropriate to support managing the data platform and associated activities such as pipelines
• Creating standards and patterns to ensure that future development adhere to a high-quality fit for purpose framework
• Defining features and capabilities to move the dial on data usage within the insurance industry
• Providing governance and consultancy to users of the data platform and data related questions

Requirements

• Communication client has a broad range of stakeholders with a commitment to becoming data driven. The successful candidate will need to be able to work with a broad stakeholder group and align between multiple viewpoints
• Collaborative client prides itself on its collaborative culture and data engineers will regularly interact with other technical teams and business users
• Willingness to learn the successful candidate will be expected to propose new approaches and prototype solutions

  Influence A key part of this role will be to influence the strategic usage of data within client at both a technical and cultural level.

• This role will be a mixture of hands-on development and thought leadership
• 3+ years working in a Data Engineering role
• Experience designing and using Azure capabilities and especially Analytics tools (incl. Synapse Analytics)
• Strong SQL knowledge, ideally with SQL Server and Azure SQL experience
• Knowledge of Python and ideally Spark
• Experience analyzing, cleaning, migrating and modeling data
• Experience working in an Agile environment