SQL Data Engineer & Insight Lead

Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working patterns

Flexi-time scheme

Local Government Pension Scheme

25 days holiday (pro rata)

Free gym access and onsite parking

Lifestyle Savings platform

Blue Light Card

Job summary

Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service seeks a data professional to design and maintain reliable data systems, turning complex information into insight for decision-making. You will build databases, data warehouses, and ETL pipelines from internal and public data sources, ensuring data quality and governance.

Responsibilities include managing automated ETL workflows, conducting cyclical reporting, and handling FOI requests.

Qualifications

• Degree in a Mathematical, Statistical, Scientific or Technology-related subject.
• In-depth experience of SQL development, including writing complex queries and building stored procedures.
• In-depth experience of data modelling for reporting purposes.
• Significant experience of data analysis to produce insightful reports.
• In-depth experience of creating ETL workflows to process data from multiple sources.
• Skills in Microsoft SQL Server programming.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain databases and data warehouse structures to support reporting and analysis, ensuring compliance with the Service's data governance, quality and security policies.
• Develop, optimise and maintain SQL based ETL processes to populate databases and data warehouse structures, to ensure performance, reliability and scalability and facilitate timely, accurate reporting.
• Improve governance processes by developing, documenting and maintaining automated workflows and ETL processes with associated error handling.
• Complete ad hoc imports into, and updates of, SQL data tables, SharePoint repositories and other internal data sources to ensure timely availability of non-automated data sources for reporting purposes.
• Develop and maintain auditing and monitoring for existing and new automated ETL processes to identify failures or data quality issues promptly and support rapid resolution.
• Maintain processes for the anonymisation and deletion of data in line with the Service's data retention and information governance policies.
• Use data analysis and visualisation tools to analyse data, identify trends, correlations and outliers and produce clear, compelling outputs tailored to different audiences.
• Validate data quality by identifying issues and working with data owners to address root causes, ensuring accurate and reliable data is used for reporting and decision making.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including data dictionaries, data models and process flow diagrams, to support transparency, maintainability, auditability and business continuity.
• Respond to internal and external requests for information accurately and in a timely manner, in compliance with Service policies and statutory requirements, including preparing responses to Freedom of Information requests.

Skills

SQL development

Data modelling

Data analysis

ETL workflows

Process automation platform

FOI legislation knowledge

Education

Degree in Mathematical, Statistical, Scientific or Technology-related subject

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Automation platform

Job description

Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service seeks a data professional to design and maintain reliable data systems, turning complex information into insight for decision-making. You will build databases, data warehouses, and ETL pipelines from internal and public data sources, ensuring data quality and governance.

Responsibilities include managing automated ETL workflows, conducting cyclical reporting, and handling FOI requests.