Data Engineer in Birmingham

Salary: Up to £61,800 dependent on skills and experience

Permanent

Enjoy True Flexibility – Hybrid Working with a Birmingham City Centre Base, working to a 40% office presence each month.

As a proud mutual since 1841, Wesleyan is committed to creating brighter financial futures for our customers and members. We specialise in providing financial services to some of the nation’s most trusted professions: GPs, hospital doctors, dentists, and teachers.

We are proud supporters of the ABI Making Flexible Work campaign which means we are open to discuss flexible working, job shares and part time options.

The role:

This role is key to achieving success within our Data Excellence pillar of our Data Strategy which has a primary objective of getting the right data, to the right people, at the right time by developing our flexible data architecture. You’ll be a key member of the team that builds data artefacts to support our data driven culture. You’ll bring together the data from different operational systems to build the data artefacts to create a data integration layer. A deep knowledge of Azure's data platform is crucial, along with a collaborative approach as you’ll have the opportunity to direct more inexperienced members of the team. The role requires excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, along with proficiency in Python, PySpark and SQL; essential for data manipulation and query development.

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing, maintaining and operating the routines to ingest the data from across the Wesleyan estate to form single source of data that enables a data driven culture
• Designing and implementing scalable and secure data processing pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse and other Azure services.
• Managing and optimising data storage using Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
• Developing data models and maintaining data architecture to support data analytics and business intelligence reporting.
• Ensuring data quality and consistency through data cleaning, transformation, and integration processes.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting data-related issues within the Azure environment to maintain high availability and performance.
• Collaborating with data scientists, business analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and implement appropriate data solutions.

We’re looking for:

• Demonstrable experience in a data, analytics or information management discipline
• Experience of designing and implementing data solutions on Azure utilising Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics
• Extensive knowledge of SQL is essential.
• Experience with RDBMS.
• Experience using Azure Data Lake
• Hands on experience working with BI tools (Power Bi, Tableau or similar).

Benefits:

• 28 days annual leave (plus 1 additional “culture day” & bank holidays) – increases to 30 days with 5 years’ service
• Company pension scheme - matched plus 2% (up to 10%)
• Free secure underground Birmingham city centre parking (available on weekends for personal use – subject to availability)
• Cashback and discounts on major brands in retail, leisure, health, and wellbeing
• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
• 2 volunteering days per year

What to know before applying:

Equal Opportunities: Wesleyan are an equal opportunities employer. We know the best teams are made up of inclusive groups of diverse people where everyone’s contribution counts, and we believe everyone has the right to proudly be themselves. We’re building a culture where difference is actively encouraged and simply recruit the best people for the job irrespective of lifestyle, life history and life choices.

Reasonable Adjustments: We understand that there are a wide range of reasons that you may require reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process- please let us know in your application how we can best support you.

VISA Sponsorship: We are unable to provide VISA sponsorship, and therefore cannot employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK – within our recruitment process you will be asked to provide evidence of your Right to Work.

Advert Closing: We typically advertise for two weeks, though we reserve the right to close adverts early if we receive a high volume of applications; we would therefore recommend an early application if you’d like to be considered for our opportunities.

Regulatory Requirements: Please note this role is subject to regulatory requirements. As a financial services organisation we are committed to adopting the highest standards and we do this by employing individuals with the appropriate skills, experience and integrity to protect the Wesleyan Group and our customers. Relevant checks and assessments will be carried out during the recruitment process. The nature of the checks will depend on whether the role is subject to the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) or the Insurance Distribution Directive. Please note a criminal record check and credit check will apply and this role is also subject to ongoing checks in line with the Group SMCR Framework (Fit & Proper Policy).