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Data Analytics Engineer

Leeds Permanent £40,000 - £50,000 per year View Job Description
The Data Analytics Engineer is responsible for contributing to all phases of the client's Golden Source Analytics Platform lifecycle (Microsoft Fabric). Aligned to the client's Data Strategy, this role will ensure the seamless provision of data for consumption within reporting & analytical data products via curated layers and reusable semantic models.
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  • An opportunity to make a lasting impact and work on cutting edge technologies
  • Excellent benefits package

About Our Client

The client is a government-owned organisation that is providing infrastructure finance in partnership with the private sector and local government. The aim is to finance a green industrial revolution and drive growth across the United Kingdom.

Job Description



  • Design, Build, Support and Develop the client's Golden Source data platform (Microsoft Fabric).


  • Ingest data with shortcuts, pipelines or dataflows to support Power BI and AI analytical use cases.


  • Establish both curated and semantic layers within the Golden Source data platform, aligned to company Data Architecture and using Microsoft Fabric capabilities.


  • Actively contribute to all stages of the data platform lifecycle as required (including design, development, testing & delivery phases) in line with agreed architecture and design standards.


  • Optimise table design, data models and semantic models for onward data consumption by content creators across the organisation.


  • Ingest third party data using Microsoft Fabric capabilities and prepare third party data for both standalone and combined analysis with other company data sets.


  • Ensure data platform delivers to non-functional requirements.


  • Performance optimisation and troubleshooting of data technologies


  • Curate an unstructured data (documents, reports, lists etc.) ecosystem within Microsoft Fabric tools


  • Champion Cloud Operations & DevOps principles, approaches and best practices


  • Document knowledge of environments and individual systems as they are acquired over time, creating runbooks and ensuring critical system information is readily available to colleagues.

The Successful Applicant

Knowledge, skills and experience:

Essential



  • Experience working in a team, building & supporting data platforms with Microsoft technologies.


  • Technical skills with some of the following technologies - Data Factory, Data Activator, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Warehouse, Python, One Lake


  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud


  • Good knowledge of data management principles, including data modelling, data integration, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, data governance, and data security


  • Experience building data platform components to support a business need


  • Strong attention to detail and analytical skills


  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders in a straightforward and understandable way.


  • Strong planning and organisational skills, including the ability to manage several workstreams simultaneously, balancing business priorities and quality.


  • Experience of working within an Agile working environment.


  • An eagerness to learn and the ability to instil this in others.


  • Ability to work in a small team, within an evolving organisational environment including newly set processes and methods that may well change over time.

Desirable



  • Technical qualifications with some of the following technologies - Data Factory, Data Activator, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Warehouse, Python, One Lake


  • Knowledge and understanding of the business processes associated with financial services organisations.


  • Experience providing technical support services


  • Experience producing technical design and support documentation

What's on Offer

Benefits

  • Flexible benefit payment equivalent to 10% of salary
  • Bonus - 2 months salary for 'on-target' performance or 3 months salary for over-performance
  • Life Insurance - 2x annual salary
  • Income protection - 33% of annual salary after 6 months' service
  • Pension - 10% employer contribution, increasing to 15% if you contribute 5%
  • 30 days annual leave plus the ability to buy and sell up to five days annual leave.
Contact
Steve Brown
Quote job ref
JN-082024-6506908
Phone number
+44 161 829 0424

Job summary

Job function
Technology
Subsector
Data Analysis
Sector
Public Sector
Location
Leeds
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Steve Brown
Consultant phone
+44 161 829 0424
Job reference
JN-082024-6506908