Data Engineer

IMSERV is one of the UK’s leading data collection and energy metering experts, delivering award winning services to more customers in more places, meeting industry targets and becoming a benchmark for excellence. We offer a range of specialist metering technology for electricity, gas, and water along with highly accurate energy data collection services. All this is wrapped up with an easy-to-view online data management analysis and reporting software.<br>Purpose of the Role<br>The purpose of the role is to design, build, and manage scalable data solutions focusing on the ingestion, transformation, and management of large datasets across real-time analytics environments. This includes developing robust and efficient data pipelines, ensuring secure and well-governed data access, and optimising system performance.<br>The role also involves analysing business requirements to ensure data is accessible and usable for decision-making, while carrying out platform administration, monitoring, and maintenance to support reliable and secure operations.<br>Main Responsibilities<br>Develop and maintain data infrastructure, data warehouses, and big data processing systems.<br>Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources.<br>Build solutions for automated ingestion and data versioning i.e. Time Travel.<br>Provide technical skills and support to other areas for Fabric components under the team’s control.<br>Ensure data accuracy, reliability, security, and compliance with policies.<br>Work with analysis engineers, analysts, developers and business teams to understand needs and deliver solutions.<br>Re-engineer manual processes for scalability and efficiency.<br>Deliver project tasks to agreed timescales and provide technical expertise to ensure project success.<br>Ensure business continuity strategy is appropriate for purpose and is always delivering.<br>To report on work in progress and any problems and performance issues.<br>To perform established procedures to accredited standards on an ongoing basis.<br>Contribute to the planning, research, recommendation, and implementation of current and future IT strategies.<br>Person Specification<br>Demonstrable experience of Spark (PySpark) and SQL.<br>Demonstrable experience of Fabric components.<br>Demonstrable experience of working on enterprise environments.<br>Experience of designing architectural Fabric processes.<br>Experience of Azure Data Factory.<br>DP-700 (Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer) certification.<br>Demonstrable experience of Oracle PL/SQL or SQL Server.<br>Demonstrable experience of data visualization/exploration tools.<br>Understanding of Project Life Cycles.<br>To be able to make recommendations that will benefit the organisation, which are where possible cost effective and timely.<br>Able to deliver innovative solutions for problems encountered within the scope of Data Engineer duties.<br>Continuous improvements to existing team processes / monitoring.<br>High attention to detail and ability to work under pressure.<br>Benefits<br>28 days annual leave plus Salary: GBP 45000 - 55000 per year

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