Data Engineer

• Annual Salary: Competitive (to be discussed)
• Location: Esher, Hybrid (4 days office, 1 day remote)
• Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Join our team as a Data Engineer /  Application Integration Specialisy, where you will lead and manage the integration of operational systems across our business technology estate. This role is crucial for working across the Azure integration stack and various integration pipelines from different 3rd party platforms, ensuring seamless data integration and solution design.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and support of robust, scalable integration solutions for business systems.
• Conduct analysis, design, build, and test all integration and data transformation required between source and target business systems.
• Engineer highly scalable, resilient, and secure data integrations, leveraging Azure Cloud PaaS to deliver high-quality integration outcomes.
• Ensure seamless data exchange using API design principles and best practices, focusing strongly on security.
• Subscribe and publish to operational systems using their native application interface technologies, such as REST, SOAP, Service Bus, SQL, etc.
• Create data integrations using different data latency methodologies, e.g., real-time and periodic.
• Perform transformations to conform the data with the expected schema required by downstream operational systems.
• Monitor the health of data integrations, troubleshooting and resolving issues, including near real-time alerting of failures.
• Adopt a DevOps approach to support; monitor pipelines to ensure business-critical data pipelines are processed meeting time constraints and data quality expectations.
• Use software development lifecycle methodologies (Agile, DevOps, etc).
• Offer Level 3 and beyond support for integration platforms.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis of data across multiple data sources to inform solution design.
• Document datasets in data catalogue, including ownership, stewardship, dictionaries, glossaries, lineage, sensitivity, etc.
• Document solution design.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience building integration pipelines.
• Strong Azure SQL, SQL, and data skills.
• Proficient in Azure data integration stack, including Azure Function Apps, Azure Logic Apps, Azure API Management, Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, etc.
• Strong understanding of application interface technologies including REST, SOAP, Service Bus, SQL, etc.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, and cloud platforms.
• Strong JavaScripting, HTML Scripting, JSON & XML Structures.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written communication skills and ability to manage stakeholder expectations.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Hybrid working model (4 days in-office, 1 day remote).
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Engaging and dynamic work environment.