Cloud Data Platform Engineer - Own the Platform (Hybrid)

Ocho People; Ballymena; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive salary + full benefits

Job summary

Ocho People in Ballymena is seeking a Data & Analytics Engineer to own the design of a modern cloud data platform built around Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. This is a hands-on role shaping data collection, transformation, governance and consumption across the business.

You will work with architecture, digital transformation and stakeholder teams, have autonomy to set tooling and standards from day one, and see a clear route to Data Architect or Data Lead as the function grows.

Qualifications

• 3 to 7 years' experience in Data Engineering or Analytics Engineering.
• Track record designing and building production-grade data pipelines.
• Strong data modelling, data warehousing and ETL/ELT development skills.
• Excellent SQL and a solid understanding of modern cloud data platforms.
• Commercial experience with Microsoft Fabric and/or Snowflake.
• Experience working with dbt in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of Power BI and data governance/quality frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A proactive approach, confident introducing new ideas and challenging existing process.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
• Develop and optimise a modern cloud data platform.
• Build semantic models, datasets and data products for business users.
• Deliver Power BI reports and dashboards where required.
• Implement data governance, quality and security best practice.
• Design scalable data architecture to support future business growth.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand how data is generated and used.
• Champion self service analytics across the organisation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform improvements.
• Mentor colleagues and promote engineering best practice across the wider technology team.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL/ELT development

SQL

Cloud data platforms

Data modelling

Stakeholder management

Communication

Proactive change agent

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Snowflake

dbt

Power BI

Job description

Ocho People in Ballymena is seeking a Data & Analytics Engineer to own the design of a modern cloud data platform built around Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. This is a hands-on role shaping data collection, transformation, governance and consumption across the business.

You will work with architecture, digital transformation and stakeholder teams, have autonomy to set tooling and standards from day one, and see a clear route to Data Architect or Data Lead as the function grows.