Azure Data Engineer

Agilisys ,
London, Greater London
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We are looking for an experienced Azure Data Engineer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. As an experienced data pipeline builder and data modeller, you will enjoy optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The role is responsible for supporting our software developers, database engineers, data analysts on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. You will be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products. Read on if you are excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company's data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives. How will you spend your days? Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture, * Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements. * Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc. * Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS 'big data' technologies. * Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics. * Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs. * Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions. * Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader. * Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems. How will you stand out? Qualifications for Data Engineer * Advance working on Azure Data Services * Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases. * Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets. * Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement. * Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets. * Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management. * A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets. * Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores. * Strong project management and organizational skills. * Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment. We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained Microsoft Azure certifications. They should also have experience using the following software/tools: Experience with Azure PaaS, Azure DataWarehouse (Now Synapse), Power BI, DataBricks, Azure Data Factory and Polybase Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc. Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra. Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc. Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc. What's in it for you? At Agilisys, we are passionate about people who are passionate about technology and digital disruption. We pride ourselves on our integrity towards our colleagues and our clients and strive to be the transformation and operating partner of choice to the public sector. We are collaborative in the way we work, and our agile and fast paced environment poses many opportunities for exposure to new technologies and ways of working. As an Employee Owned business, our people are our main asset, and everyone has a real say in the direction that the business is heading In addition to salary, training and a wonderful office environment, we offer the following corporate benefits: * Pension Scheme * Health Insurance * Being an Employee Owner as part of the Employee Owned Trust, you can make a difference in the future of our organisation. * Life Assurance * Flexible working * Access to exclusive discounts and offers with a variety of retail providers through Agilisys "Perks at Work" scheme. Agilisys operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardl

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