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We are building an Azure data warehouse and look for a skilled Data Engineer to help transform how data powers decision‑making across the business. Health plan details are omitted for brevity.

• Play a central role in building a scalable, high‑performing data ecosystem.
• Work with modern Microsoft technologies (Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric).
• Collaborate with IT and business teams to deliver insights that drive smarter decisions.
• Influence how data is used across the entire organisation.

• Oversee the data warehouse roadmap and the data warehouse itself.
• Lead on quality and best practice.
• Develop and maintain ETL processes and data integrations.
• Optimize data solutions for performance and scalability.
• Ensure data integrity, security and compliance.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert on business data.
• Keep documentation up to date in Confluence.

• Strong experience in data engineering, ideally at senior level.
• Hands‑on expertise with Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric.
• Advanced SQL skills and data modelling experience.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and API integrations.
• Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills.

• Power BI experience.
• Knowledge of GDPR and ISO
  27001.
• Microsoft certifications (Fabric Data Engineer Associate, Azure Fundamentals).

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As a Senior Data Engineer, you will spend your time helping clients achieve their data engineering needs. Primarily the development, deployment and maintenance of data pipelines in a fast‑moving, Agile environment. You’ll make a real impact by taking an active role in the team’s Agile Development practices, technical decision‑making and development, generating value and continuously striving to improve the quality and reliability of our data and processes.

You will spend the majority of your time helping deliver client data engineering opportunities and supporting the growth of our junior‑mid level technologists; both within AND and for our clients.

• Extract data from multiple data sources.
• Write code to ingest or transform new and existing data.
• Transform data in various ways to support data scientists and product analysts.
• Build and design a scalable and extensible data architecture.
• Conduct large‑scale batch and real‑time processing from varying sources.
• Influence the client on how they approach data engineering issues.
• Collaborate with tech leads on system integrations.

• Engage actively with our Consultancy Data Strategy and Insight practice to help define and materialise clients’ data strategies.
• Champion and uphold high technical quality standards.

• Experience with modern & traditional data technologies:
  Mongo
  
  DB, Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL/maria
  
  DB, Kafka, Splunk/ELK or other logging and monitoring tools, BI and Data Warehousing solutions and ETL and migration technologies.
• Fabric or Snowflake Certification.
• Experience with Snowflake, Sigma and Fabric.
• Strong experience in quality‑assuring data programmes, including…