Senior Data Engineer - Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited

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About the role

In your role as Senior Data Engineer you will make a meaningful and valued contribution from the outset. This role will provide a great opportunity to assist in the development and build of the Investment Data Platform (IDP). This senior position is essential to advancing USSIM's data strategy project and wider agenda, aligning with the organisation's strategic objectives and shaping the technology, people and processes required to embed a data driven culture.

Responsibilities

As a trusted part of the Operations team you will be responsible for:

Developing a Fabric Data Lakehouse for the Investment Management business, implementing scalable and secure ETL/ELT frameworks to ingest, transform and deliver data, across a medallion architecture.

Knowledge share across a small team of data engineers, fostering strong data engineering practices aligned to industry standards.

Working in partnership with architects, support the design and implementation of best practices in development and data disciplines.

Partnering with business stakeholders, technology, data and analytics teams, to translate business needs into scalable solutions.

Working with the Data Oversight and Information Security teams to ensure compliance with data security and privacy requirements, implementing secure-by-design engineering practices.

Advocating and educating colleagues and stakeholders on data engineering capabilities, gaining stakeholder buy-in to the value and potential of the data platform's capabilities.

Providing technical support and troubleshooting production issues.

Analysing business requirements and document technical solutions and processes.

About you

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box, if you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, then please apply, regardless of whether you meet all the requirements outlined in this profile.

To be successful in the role you will have:

Significant practical data engineering experience delivering scalable data platform solutions on cloud technologies e.g. Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure, Snowflake.

Strong technical proficiency in data engineering and cloud technologies e.g. Python, Spark, SQL/NOSQL, PowerShell, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps.

Professional experience in modern data warehousing, data lakes and lakehouse architectures.

Agile practitioner with experience working with scrum teams, sprints, backlogs.

Experience working in Investment Management, with a good understanding of the data which underpins Investment Management activities.

Understanding and first-hand experience working with data masters, market data sources, data quality/cataloguing/lineage tools.

Microsoft certified in Fabric Analytics Engineer such as DP-600 or DP-700.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, operating at different levels across the organisation.

Self-starter, enthusiastic, and hands-on individual who wants to make a difference in a team working environment.

Desirable

Understanding of both business and data architecture practices, with experience working with data models and toolsets such as Bizzdesign and ER/Studio.

Understanding of data governance, data quality and data security practices, and experience in adopting and embedding these capabilities within platform deliveries.

Qualification in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science

Why join us?

How we will reward you

Great starting salary

Generous annual leave package

Access to a high quality pension scheme provided through Universities Superannuation Scheme

Supportive people policies (including enhanced occupational sickness pay and family friendly pay)

Financial contributions towards your personal development to help you maintain your physical and mental wellbeing

Access to a range of health and wellbeing services i.e., private healthcare, discounted gym membership

Learning and development opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and talent

Employee Volunteer Day's to support the communities where you work and li

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