Data Engineer

About Us

We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale‑up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI‑powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real‑time project financials, and firm‑wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams—we’re helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.

Why our customers love Dayshape:

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.
• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.
• We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work—and the best clients want to work with.

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest‑growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like‑minded people to join us.

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people’s working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We’re a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast‑growing, high‑impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk.

As a Data Engineer, you will be the bridge between technical design and client reality for data integration projects. You will be responsible for the end‑to‑end lifecycle of data pipelines, from the initial specification with our Project Managers and Software Implementation Consultants, the design and build, to long‑term performance monitoring. You will be architecting reliable data solutions for a growing global client base.

This is a highly collaborative role where you will have the opportunity to work directly with clients on requirements gathering and the implementation of new integrations. As the demand for integration work increases, you will be heavily involved in setting the standards for our integrations going forward.

• Work with our software implementation consultants (SICs) to define and verify specification documents for ETL process
• Liaise directly with customer IT teams to test and verify data source endpoints (e.g., Workday, Salesforce, Snowflake) against our specifications.
• Implement, test, and deploy Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines using Azure Repos and Pipelines (CI/CD) across customer environments.
• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to ensure all data solutions are observable, performant, and meet our reliability standards.
• Work closely with core Engineering teams to ensure data flows seamlessly and maintains integrity across the entire product ecosystem.
• Act as a technical consultant to clients and internal teams, making architectural recommendations rather than simply executing tasks.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to existing ADF processes to ensure they remain maintainable as our customer base scales.
• Use Azure Dev Ops and Git repositories for version control and collaboration and have comfort with version control, CI/CD practices, etc.
• Plan, design, manage, execute and report tests, using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Understand and document risks associated with deployment

• You must have a few years of experience in Azure Data Factory and be comfortable building transparent, easy‑to‑support pipelines.
• You have experience building and maintaining data integrations with a variety of external systems.
• You have a good understanding of the ETL process.
• You are comfortable being in a client‑facing role.
• You are confident working with complex referential data.
• You have knowledge of Rest APIs, SQL databases and other data sources.
• You are a team player, with experience collaborating with other departments.
• You demonstrate good attention to…