Data Engineering Lead — Azure Cloud & Analytics

DAC Beachcroft; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Income protection insurance

Discounted gym membership

Flexible and hybrid work options

Job summary

DAC Beachcroft is seeking an experienced Data Engineering Lead in Birmingham to shape and deliver an enterprise data platform. You will design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, lead Azure cloud development, and partner with data scientists to operationalise analytics.

You will mentor teams, implement CI/CD, ensure data quality, and collaborate with stakeholders across insurance, legal, and finance systems.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data engineering teams and delivering enterprise data platforms.
• Strong Azure data platform skills and cloud experience.
• Proven ability to design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines, integrating data from multiple systems into a central data platform.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of our cloud-based data platform within Azure.
• Ensure data pipelines are scalable, reliable, cost-effective and resilient.
• Build and maintain datasets that support business reporting, analytics and data-enabled products.
• Establish and champion engineering best practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, version control, monitoring and alerting on pipeline failures.
• Partner with Data Architects to implement target-state data models and modern data engineering principles.
• Collaborate with data scientists to operationalise advanced analytics and predictive models.
• Manage integrations with insurer portals and external data providers, ensuring high-quality, timely and secure data flows.
• Support the organisation's ambition to become increasingly data-driven and AI-enabled.

Skills

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Lake

Advanced SQL

Python

Data pipeline orchestration

CI/CD / automation

Tools

Dynamics CRM

VisualFiles

Elite 3E

Job description

DAC Beachcroft is seeking an experienced Data Engineering Lead in Birmingham to shape and deliver an enterprise data platform. You will design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, lead Azure cloud development, and partner with data scientists to operationalise analytics.

You will mentor teams, implement CI/CD, ensure data quality, and collaborate with stakeholders across insurance, legal, and finance systems.