Data Engineer — Cloud Pipelines & BI

First Central; Haywards Heath; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

First Central is seeking a Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines, data models and BI solutions in a hybrid UK setting. You will own end‑to‑end data solutions, ensure data quality, and promote observability across data lake and data warehouse environments.

Join a hands-on role with ownership of pipelines, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑quality data products that power smarter decisions.

Qualifications

• Requires experience of designing and building end to end data solutions (2-5 years).
• Engineering and database skills in SQL Server and/or Azure (Data Factory, Synapse) and the associated ETL technologies.
• Experience of working with large, event based, datasets in an enterprise environment.
• Experience of testing techniques and tools.
• Proven to be an excellent communicator with a desire to build rapport with others.
• Keen and active interest in the use of data, with active external networks.
• Brings ideas on how data can drive value for businesses.
• Good understanding of the full data lifecycle.
• Experience of CI/CD
• Experience of working in an agile environment and self-managing teams

Responsibilities

• Develop low to high complexity, secure, governed, high quality, efficient data pipelines from a variety of on and off premise, internal and external data sources
• Ensure that data is cleansed, mapped, transformed and optimised for storage to meet requirements for business and technical use cases
• Build data observability and data quality by design into all Data pipelines, promoting self-testing pipelines that proactively identify processing issues or discrepancies
• Build solutions that pipe transform data into data lake storage areas, physical database models and reporting structures across data lake, data warehouse, business intelligence systems and analytics applications
• Build physical data models that are appropriately designed to meet business needs and optimise storage requirements, ensuring maximum re-use
• Carry out unit testing of own code, and peer testing of others code to ensure appropriate quality
• Maintain effective, and appropriate documentation that brings transparency and understandability to pipelines created and code created.
• Follow coding standards, architectural principles, solution design/architecture and release management processes to ensure safe, high quality, compliant code
• Coach and mentor Associate data engineers.
• Create low to high complexity BI solutions including data mart, semantic layer, and reporting & visualisation solutions in recognised BI tools such as Power BI.

Skills

Cloud & Data Engineering

Problem-Solving

Organisation & Delivery

Collaboration & Mentoring

CI/CD

Agile

Power BI

Tools

PySpark

Python

SQL Server

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

ETL technologies

Job description

First Central is seeking a Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines, data models and BI solutions in a hybrid UK setting. You will own end‑to‑end data solutions, ensure data quality, and promote observability across data lake and data warehouse environments.

Join a hands-on role with ownership of pipelines, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑quality data products that power smarter decisions.