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Senior Data Engineer

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Senior Data Engineer

Posted about 1 month ago

Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality! Our core value of ‘Love Work, Love Life, Be You’ has been central to our success and so we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all about? At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit’s to Construction, and many more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. About you: You are a self-motivated, technically minded individual, with a passion for data and databases with a keen sense of pride in the work you do. You are a team player who thrives on close collaboration with your colleagues and takes shared ownership of project delivery along with the team. You will look to assist progress with the ongoing work with our existing products as well as work newer brand-new initiatives. You will look to support the team given with experience and help guide and assist members on their work and growth. You are comfortable with an agile environment, enjoying a fast-paced and collaborative atmosphere, demonstrating the ability to co-ordinate and plan your work, help unblock others, and prioritise in a scrum team environment. Day-to-day, you will: • Proactively support and improve products worked on by the data services team. • Provide an innovated approach toward a centralised data platform by contributing to the initial structure and consuming data from a wide array of sources across the business. Taking the data raw through cleaned and validated states and on to model-ready metrics. • Build and maintain automation to ensure consistent and accurate regular data across our products. • Proactively engage with multiple stakeholders to understand and advise how data could be used to offer insights into key areas of products and engineering. • Write clean, self-documenting code that is well structured, well-named and easy to read. Ensuring development standards are established, known, and followed within an agile team. • Actively contribute to requirement discussions and analysis, whilst taking responsibility for understanding the scope, risk, and complexity of changes, and where appropriate, provide feedback to the requirements and acceptance criteria. • Analyse, identify and fix the root cause of defects throughout the various layers of an application. • Support the team's sprint deliverables, through proactive contribution to planning, ownership of tasks, identification of dependencies and effective management of risks and product security. • Actively promote a quality focussed approach within the team, showing ownership for quality activities and collaboration with the QA team. Prepared to test own work and that of others to ensure quality. • Actively working with the team to take ownership in the complete life cycle of product development, from refinement to release. • Offer guidance and share knowledge and experience with others through hands-on coaching, mentoring, and training to help upskill and support the team. Your skills and experiences might also include: • Experience with data engineering platforms, with experience in spark-based environments and the Lakehouse concept. (Databricks qualification preferred) • Strong SQL and Python skills • Strong experience Azure Data Factory and azure-based technologies. Good understanding of dataflows in ADF and understanding of function apps required. • Experience of leveraging a wide array of data sources for ingestion • End-to-end pipeline design and implementation • Able to implement version control for pipelines and CI/CD • Knowledge of Delta Lake and modern data lake architecture • Data Modelling, ideally with experience of Power BI data modelling within the data lake • Experience of implementing thorough test processes to product high-quality deliverables • Working experience of work and issue tracking tools such as Azure DevOps What does Access offer you? We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you’ll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you. At Access we’re all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t match perfectly, we’d still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for. We love the fact that we’re all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it’s just more fun! What’s holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family! Love Work. Love Life. Be You.