Senior Data Engineer

Job Description The senior data engineer will play a leading role in the management and development of an enterprise data platform that serves BI, analytic, and data integration functions for a large commercial organisation. The role will combine system administration and solution development. As a system administrator, you will provide operational support for the data platform, ensuring that system performance, stability, and data quality remain satisfactory. You will configure, monitor, and maintain regular operational processes such as data pipelines, and will identify and resolve issues as they arise. As a solution developer you will work with technical and business stakeholders to confirm requirements, and to design, develop, test, and deploy efficient and effective data solutions to deliver business value. Responsibilities The successful candidate will be expected to be able to : Work with business and technical stakeholders to design data solutions, using Microsoft cloud data services, including Azure Synapse, Azure data Factory, and Microsoft Fabric, that will apply complex business logic to large volumes of data, and present data to end users via Power BI and other means. Write complex SQL queries and procedures, both to process data, and to troubleshoot potential issues and defects. Develop and deploy production-quality code, with appropriate documentation, testing, according to business and technical requirements. Automate and orchestrate routine tasks and data pipelines to acquire, cleanse, transform, and load data into storage and reporting structures in destinations including data warehouse, reporting systems and analytics applications. Troubleshoot and maintain the data platform, and related elements and components. Support the development of innovative AI use cases Supervise and mentor junior data engineering staff. Experience and Qualifications The preferred candidate will have : 7+ years previous experience as Data Engineer in similar roles, building and optimising BI and analytic data systems, including data pipelines, and data models. 2+ years working with the Azure Data stack. Relevant Microsoft Azure Data certifications. Strong analytic skills related to working with data, and the ability to design and implement well written code. Ability to work to tight deadlines Ability to test the data from source to the presentation layer, and to support / troubleshoot data pipelines. Excellent communication skills. If this sounds like the job for you, please apply now and tell us why you would be perfect for this exciting and rewarding role! Dunnes Stores is an Equal Opportunities Employer