Business Data Engineer in Stratford-upon-Avon

Play a key role in delivering trusted, business ready data that drives insight and decision making across the organisation. Work on modern cloud-based data products with real opportunity to grow, specialise and progress your career. Full time role with 80% homeworking and regular connection to our Stratford upon Avon office.

In this role, you’ll design and develop high quality, consumable data sets that help teams across the organisation make better informed decisions. You’ll transform complex data from multiple sources into trusted, reusable products that support reporting, analysis and self-service insight.

You will be part of a growing data engineering team, working closely with colleagues who share a strong focus on data quality, continuous improvement and delivering real value through data. Your work will contribute directly to strategic priorities, helping others to understand the business through reliable and well-structured data.

On a day-to-day basis, you will collaborate with stakeholders to understand their data needs, plan and prioritise your work, and deliver solutions that are easy to use and well supported. You will apply good engineering practices, taking part in design discussions and peer reviews, and ensuring your work is clear, well documented and maintainable.

This role is based in Stratford upon Avon, with flexibility to work 80% of your time from home. You will be supported to develop your skills through hands on learning, support from peers, training and certification, and there are clear opportunities to progress into senior roles or broaden your experience across data and technology as your career grows.

You enjoy working with data that makes a difference, and you are motivated by turning complexity into clarity. You are curious, collaborative and take pride in delivering high quality work that others can trust and build on.

To join our team, you must also have:

• Experience designing and delivering data solutions using strong SQL and modern data engineering techniques.
• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms and building reliable, reusable data pipelines (using tools such as ADF).
• The ability to work with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical data products.
• Experience working in an Agile or DevOps environment, with a focus on code quality and a CI/CD approach.
• A degree in a technical or numerical subject, or equivalent practical experience, along with relevant professional certification or experience.
• Experience of Dimensional or Semantic modelling would also be useful, but not essential.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary up to £65,000 dependent on experience.
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary).
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme.
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities.
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets.
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs.
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more.
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance.
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year.
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme.
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary.
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility.

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.