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We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.
We’re always looking to support our colleagues in working in a way that best works for them. Please speak to one of our Talent Acquisition Team to find out more information about our flexible working arrangements.
Your Role and What You'll Be Doing
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of data engineering solutions for Irwin Mitchell. They understand requirements, create technical designs, configure applications, write code, and conduct testing. They collaborate with various teams, participate in meetings, and provide technical advice to address concerns. They troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, debug code, investigate failures, support end-users and the maintenance of the solutions. They document the data engineering development process, including technical specifications. Collaboration with other engineers, testers, and project managers is crucial for successful delivery. They ensure quality and reliability by conducting thorough testing, performing code reviews, and implementing best practices in data engineering development.
The Senior Data Engineer role is a key part in accelerating data value creation at IM and unlocking data’s potential, enabling improved data driven decisions and advanced analytics.
This role will shape IM transition to the cloud, both through the creation of a modern cloud data platform and as a wider organisation. It will ensure IM’s data is optimised to support the needs of colleagues and Clients.
This role will drive the creation of an aspirational data culture, with responsible data team autonomy, unified data platform with discoverable governed data, using industry best practices and modern technologies.
What You'll Be Doing
- Mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior data engineers, ensuring adherence to best practices and driving continuous improvement.
- Collaborating closely with data scientists and analysts to understand their requirements and providing data engineering support for their advanced analytics and machine learning projects. Monitoring and troubleshooting data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, availability, and security.
- Proactively ensure well architected solutions are achieved.
- Great communication: Regularly achieve consensus amongst teams
- Perform technical interviews
- Staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in data engineering and Azure technologies, evaluating and recommending new tools, frameworks, and architectures to enhance our data capabilities.
- Provide guidance, mentorship, and support to junior engineers, helping them develop technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and professional growth.
- Conduct regular one-on-one sessions with mentees, offering constructive feedback, advice, and career guidance.
- Share knowledge and best practices with the engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Create and facilitate technical training programs or workshops to enhance the skills and capabilities of the engineering team.
- Encourage and support mentees in setting and achieving their career goals, providing guidance on career paths, and identifying growth opportunities.
- Offer support during challenging projects or assignments, providing guidance on problem-solving, decision-making, and handling technical complexities.
- Celebrate and recognise the achievements and successes of mentees, boosting their confidence and motivation.
About You
Essential
- Expertise in Python programming for data engineering tasks, including data extraction, transformation, and loading.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Azure data services, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Functions, and Azure Synapse Analytics.
- Experience develop Databricks Lakehouse using Delta lake and Unity Catalog.
- In-depth understanding of data modelling, ETL development, and data integration techniques.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-based data architectures, distributed computing concepts, and big data technologies (e.g., PySpark, Spark).
- Experience with Terraform/Bicep for deploying infrastructure as code and application code via Azure DevOps.
- Communication: Strong communication skills are essential for effectively conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This includes being able to listen actively, ask clarifying questions, and articulate ideas clearly and concisely.
Desirable
- Experience with cloud platform engineering
- Experience of working within a Professional services firm
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
- Flexible working options - Make work fit around your life, not the other way around.
- 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too
- Generous and flexible pension schemes.
- Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
- Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported to work in a way that best suits you. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over how they wish to work subject to role and client requirements.
We have recently been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2023!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.
Additional Information
As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, existing employees, clients, partners and other stakeholders.
Depending on the role you apply for we may carry out checks that will establish your eligibility to work in the UK, and criminal record check and financial checks with a credit reference agency will also be undertaken.
The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.
Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.