Reed Talent Solutions are currently working with a Huddersfield based Local Authority to recruit an Azure Data Engineer on a permanent basis.
Role Information
* Location: Huddersfield
* Flexible hybrid working
* Salary: £48,341
Key Responsibilities
* Contribute to a successful, efficient, and effective Data and Insight Service, supporting services and decision-makers to understand how much and how well they are doing and what difference they are making to service users, customers, citizens, and communities in Kirklees.
* Act on opportunities for collaboration within and between council services and partner organisations to improve data capability, share good practice and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
* Positively contribute to the achievement of service, council, and partnership objectives.
* Lead the design, development, and implementation of automated data flows to extract, transform and link data sources for analytics and business intelligence systems.
* Lead the review and reengineering of manual data flows to enable scaling and repeatable use.
* Write ETL and ELT scripts and code and ensure that processes perform optimally.
* Build accessible data models for data analysis.
* Lead work on database design, development, maintenance, and management.
* Identify and act on opportunities to re-use existing data flows.
* Lead the design, development, and maintenance of appropriate metadata repositories.
* Lead the creation and implementation of appropriate testing regimes to monitor the effectiveness and quality of data engineering work and identify and resolve problems at the earliest opportunity.
* Build strong relationships and work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to gather, interpret and analyse data engineering requirements.
* Apply best practice data engineering standards and seek out opportunities for efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation.
Essential Criteria
* Accepts a basic DBS check is required. Please note that a conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.
* Undergraduate degree which includes a strong data component (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics) or equivalent experience.
* Experience and skills in designing, building, and testing data products and services that are complex or large-scale. Advanced skills in developing databases and transforming, extracting, and manipulating data using SQL.
* Advanced skills in and significant experience of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) development, administration, and deployment.