At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and maintain data pipelines, develop ETL processes, and create reusable datasets.
- Company: Ocho is recruiting for a client focused on building a modern, scalable data platform.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and exposure to modern cloud data technologies.
- Other info: Experience with tools like dbt, Power Query, and orchestration tools is desirable.
- Why this job: Shape the future data strategy of a growing organisation with impactful data initiatives.
- Qualifications: Strong experience with cloud platforms like Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, and advanced SQL skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Ocho is delighted to be working on behalf of our client to recruit a Data & Analytics Engineer to join a growing technology team focused on building a modern, scalable data platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys owning the full data lifecycle, from source system ingestion through to trusted, report-ready datasets that drive business decision-making. Rather than being tied to a single reporting tool, you'll focus on creating a robust data foundation, governed semantic models and self-service analytics capabilities that empower teams across the organisation. This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of the organisation's data function, establishing standards, improving governance and helping the business unlock greater value from its data.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data pipelines that ingest and transform data from databases, APIs, SaaS platforms, files and other business systems.
- Design and develop scalable ETL and ELT processes using modern data engineering tools and cloud platforms.
- Create dimensional models, semantic layers and reusable datasets that provide consistent business metrics across the organisation.
- Develop efficient SQL and transformation logic to support analytics, reporting and business intelligence requirements.
- Implement automated data quality controls, validation frameworks and monitoring processes.
- Optimise platform performance through effective modelling, query tuning and infrastructure design.
- Manage deployments across environments and support CI/CD and DataOps practices.
- Configure security, governance and access controls to ensure data integrity and compliance.
- Build trusted datasets that enable self-service analytics across Power BI and other reporting platforms.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to translate business questions into measurable KPIs and actionable insights.
- Maintain data dictionaries, lineage documentation and governance standards.
- Support technical mentoring, code reviews and continuous improvement initiatives within the wider team.
The Person We Are Looking For
- Strong commercial experience working with modern cloud-based data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, Synapse or BigQuery.
- Advanced SQL skills with experience optimising queries and designing scalable data models.
- Strong understanding of dimensional modelling, semantic layers and data warehousing principles.
- Experience building ETL or ELT pipelines using tools such as dbt, Power Query, Spark, Azure Data Factory or Fabric Pipelines.
- Experience implementing data quality, governance and security controls.
- Strong understanding of reporting and analytics platforms, particularly Power BI and self-service analytics environments.
- Experience working with APIs, SaaS applications and multiple enterprise data sources.
- Comfortable engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong communication, problem-solving and analytical skills.
Desirable Experience
- Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP.
- Exposure to orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster or Fabric Pipelines.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines and DataOps practices.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Purview, Unity Catalog or similar governance tools.
- Experience working with streaming or near real-time data.
- Exposure to AI-assisted analytics and modern self-service data capabilities.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Opportunity to help shape the future data strategy of a growing organisation.
- Exposure to modern cloud data technologies and enterprise-scale data initiatives.
Data & Analytics Engineer in Ballymena employer: Ocho People
Join a forward-thinking technology team at Ocho's client, where you can enjoy flexible working arrangements and a competitive salary. You'll have the chance to work with cutting-edge cloud data technologies and contribute to enterprise-scale data initiatives that drive business decisions.
