BI Engineer
La Fosse
Sunderland, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 48KJob location
Sunderland, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Business Analytics Applications
Business Intelligence
Data as a Services
Data Architecture
ETL
Data Systems
Database Queries
Python
Power BI
SQL Databases
Tableau
Informatica Cloud
GIT
PySpark
Integration Frameworks
Software Version Control
Data Pipelines
Job description
We're hiring a BI Engineer focused on delivering scalable, high-quality data solutions for reporting and self-service insight.
Reporting to the Lead BI Engineer, you'll partner with developers and business stakeholders to deliver well-structured datasets and reliable data pipelines. The role requires a blend of technical delivery and the ability to translate business requirements into effective data solutions., * Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform, and prepare data
- Develop and optimise datasets for reporting and analytics
- Implement data transformations using SQL and Python (incl. PySpark)
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve performance of data pipelines and queries
- Apply data quality controls and maintain clear documentation
- Contribute to ongoing improvements in data architecture and tooling
- Translate business requirements into scalable data solutions
- Partner with BI developers to support reporting and dashboard needs
- Engage stakeholders and support adoption of self-service analytics
- Work with platform teams on architecture, scalability, and performance
- Follow engineering standards and contribute to continuous improvement
- Support incident management and ongoing maintenance of BI solutions
Requirements
- Experience with AWS data services (eg Redshift, Athena, S3, Glue, Lambda)
- Strong SQL skills
- Exposure to SnapLogic or similar integration platforms
- Proficiency in Python (including PySpark)
- Familiarity with modern data tooling (eg open table formats, DuckDB beneficial)
- Experience with version control (Git/CodeCommit preferred)
- Awareness of BI tools (eg QuickSight, Power BI, Tableau)
- Strong stakeholder engagement and requirements translation skills