Data Engineer

• Work through the Fabric medallion (Bronze / Silver / Gold) build with our consultant’s engineers, using Pipelines, Notebooks, Spark, OneLake and Delta Lake in a live delivery setting.
• Take ownership of ingestion from our core systems (Autoflow, Eclipse, People, NetSuite and file-based sources), keeping pipelines and refreshes reliable.
• Own day-to-day platform health, including capacity monitoring and resolving failures without relying on external support.
• Apply data governance and security controls, including row-level security and Entra-based access, and contribute to the data catalogue and lineage in Microsoft Purview.
• Support Git-based CI/CD and separate production and non-production environments.
• Feed practical, delivery-informed input into the roadmap for future use cases such as operational KPIs and advanced analytics., * Be the first dedicated data engineer at the heart of a major platform investment.
• Learn Fabric, Spark and the governance model directly from specialist delivery engineers.
• Grow with the platform, with the chance to shape how Steer’s data function develops, including future hires.
• Remote working, with occasional travel to our offices

• Proven hands-on experience delivering data engineering solutions in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks or Azure Synapse.
• Strong Spark/PySpark and/or T-SQL skills, applied to production data pipelines.
• Experience designing or working within medallion and dimensional data models.
• Experience with Power BI semantic models and DAX.
• Understanding of data governance, access control and GDPR-aware data handling.
• Experience of working in a small team and learning directly from external delivery partners or consultants.
• Self-sufficient and comfortable in a build-from-scratch environment.

Desirable:

• Microsoft DP-700 (Fabric Data Engineer Associate) or equivalent; dbt, Git-based CI/CD and Azure DevOps; experience in a multi-site or acquisitive business, or in automotive, retail or another operationally intensive sector.

• Competitive salary plus performance related bonus
• 29 days holiday including public holidays plus additional days with service
• Pension contributions
• Referral bonus scheme
• Enhanced parental leave
• Enhanced sick pay
• Wagestream-a Financial Wellbeing app giving you ultimate pay control! Get paid when you want, save monthly, enjoy shopping discounts, explore your benefits, and even connect with a financial coach.
• Talk to us about flexible working
• VIP Awards - colleague recognition scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Benefits App - virtual GP appointments, employee assistance programme (EAP), cycle to work, high street discounts, discounted vehicle maintenance & repairs and so much more!
• Steer Academy provides accredited ongoing training - paid for by the business
• Opportunities for career progression

Steer Automotive Group is the UK’s largest independent accident repair group, with more than 200 sites and around 4,500 colleagues. We’re investing in a modern data platform on Microsoft Fabric to replace an ageing reporting environment, and this is the first dedicated data engineering hire into our Group IT team.