Data Engineer
Data Engineerignite Digital Search Ltd
Birmingham, United Kingdom
28 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Intermediate Compensation
£ 55KJob location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Agile Methodologies
Azure
Business Intelligence
Information Engineering
ETL
Performance Tuning
Power BI
Azure
SQL Databases
Azure
GIT
Powerquery
Microsoft Fabric
Azure
Job description
This is an excellent opportunity for a mid-level engineer looking to deepen their Azure Data Factory, Synapse, and SQL experience while contributing to enterprise-wide MI and analytics., You will:
- Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and data models using DAX and Power Query (key focus).
- Develop and maintain Azure Data Factory ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Work with Azure Synapse Analytics on modelling, optimisation, and BI-ready datasets.
- Support early adoption and migration to Microsoft Fabric.
- Write and optimise SQL queries for reporting, analysis, and data preparation.
- Collaborate with analysts, senior engineers, and business stakeholders.
- Contribute to data quality, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Operate within Agile delivery using Azure DevOps and Git.
Requirements
Essential:
- Strong experience developing Power BI reports, dashboards, and data models.
- Hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory ETL pipelines.
- Working knowledge of Azure Synapse modelling and performance tuning.
- Good SQL skills for analytics and optimisation.
- Understanding of Azure Data Lake structures.
- Experience using Git and Azure DevOps in Agile teams.
- 2-4 years' experience in a Data Engineering or BI Development role.
Desirable:
- Exposure to Microsoft Fabric.
- Experience in cloud-based BI/MI environments.
- Experience working in financial services or another regulated industry.
Benefits & conditions
- Pension: 7% employer / 5% employee
- Private Medical Insurance (optical & dental)
- Group Income Protection (75% salary)
- Death in Service (4x salary)
- Critical Illness Cover (£10k)
- 25 days holiday rising to 28
- 8% Company bonus
About the company
A leading and growing UK financial services company is seeking a Data Engineer to build Power BI reporting solutions and support the development of its Azure data platform.