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Data Engineer

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd
Birmingham
3 days ago
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Location: Birmingham, Belfast or Bristol office in line with our Agile Working Policy.

Who we are...

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd is an award-winning and market-leading specialist provider of planning, land, property, and business solutions. We are an established and trusted organisation that is renowned for its expertise in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions to both public and private sectors. Our team delivers bespoke, flexible, and efficient services through a process-orientated delivery structure. We pride ourselves on strong customer relationships evidenced by the high proportion of referrals and repeat business.

Why work with us…

We are a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer, committed to supporting the well-being and development of all our people. With competitive salaries, enhanced Family Friendly policies; a fabulous suite of benefits (including: Pension; Life Assurance; Employee Assistance Programme; option to buy additional annual leave in addition to 25 days plus Bank Holidays); true flexibility with our Agile Working approach, and superb training and development opportunities, we really care about our team!

What we need...

Due to a period of sustained growth, we are looking to hire a Data Engineer to join Solutions team within TerraQuest.

Working in an emerging Data Team of data specialists, alongside our agile scrum software engineering teams - successful candidate will be developing concept of Data Platform to meet a breadth of business requirements for internal and external data consumption.

Gaining knowledge and experience in working with latest cloud data technologies, including Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Spark and Data Lake, following industry standards, methodologies and best practices with ability to innovate and research.

What you will be doing…

  • Working with range of data technologies in order to implement enterprise-wide Data Platform
  • Building, testing and maintaining Data Platform pipelines
  • Data engineering, including ingestion, transformation, translation, cleansing and publishing
  • Data management and governance as a part of the Data Team
  • Supporting software engineering teams in developing new web-based solutions as required
  • Supporting data migration activities as required
  • Provide and share knowledge and expertise with the rest of the team
  • Keep up to date with the current and latest data technologies and practices

What we are looking for…

  • Minimum 2 years, preferably 5 years’ experience as Data Engineer
  • Good familiarity with key digital data concepts and methodologies
  • Working knowledge of following Microsoft Azure data technologies:
    • Azure Data Factory - designing, implementing and maintaining pipelines
    • Azure Databricks and Spark – transforming and processing data
    • Azure Data Lake – data modelling
    • Azure Storage Accounts
    • Azure SQL Server – with understanding of good database design principles and practices
  • Ability to produce entity relationship diagrams
  • Programming / scripting experience (Python)
  • Familiarity with a Software Development Cycle Management Tool (Azure DevOps, JIRA…)

Advantageous skills and experience:

  • Source control (git)
  • C# programming
  • JSON, XML
  • RestAPI
  • PowerBI

Non-technology:

  • Must be a team player
  • Should have previous experience working in an agile software development
  • Should be able to take ownership of ticket/user story from planning to presentation
  • Should be DevOps aware

Please apply for more information and please do not be put off if you do not have all of the experience and skills required. If you have the majority of skills and relevant experience, we would still like to hear from you!

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