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Sector: Data Science
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
We're a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is 'we're legal and financial experts that care' - something you'll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But we're more than just a law firm - we're a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life's ups and downs. Working here you'll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.
We'll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities. We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators.
An opportunity has arisen for a talented Senior Data Engineer to join our product engineering team based from one of our regional offices.
Your Role and What You'll Be Doing
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of data engineering solutions for Irwin Mitchell. The successful candidate will understand requirements, create technical designs, configure applications, write codes, and conduct testing. You will also collaborate with various teams, participate in meetings, provide technical advice to address concerns and ensure quality and reliability by conducting thorough testing, performing code reviews, and implementing best practices in data engineering development.
The Senior Data Engineer role is a key part in accelerating data value creation at IM and unlocking data's potential, enabling improved data driven decisions and advanced analytics. You will help shape IM's transition to the cloud, both through the creation of a modern cloud data platform and as a wider organisation, ensuring IM's data is optimised to support the needs of colleagues and clients.
What You'll Be Doing
* Proactively ensuring well architected solutions are achieved;
* Conducting regular one-on-one sessions with mentees, offering constructive feedback, advice, and career guidance;
* Sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement;
* Creating and facilitating technical training programs or workshops to enhance the skills and capabilities of the engineering team;
* Mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior data engineers, ensuring adherence to best practices and driving continuous improvement;
* Staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in data engineering and Azure technologies, evaluating and recommending new tools, frameworks, and architectures to enhance our data capabilities;
* Collaborating closely with data scientists and analysts to understand their requirements and providing data engineering support for their advanced analytics and machine learning projects.
About You
We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer who has a broad range of skills with expertise in a specific area, with a good understanding of the end-to-end data solutions. Our ideal candidate will also have the following:
* Experience in developing Databricks Lakehouse using Delta lake and Unity Catalog;
* In-depth understanding of data modelling, ETL development, and data integration techniques;
* Experience with Terraform/Bicep for deploying infrastructure as code and application code via Azure DevOps;
* Demonstrable expertise in Python programming for data engineering tasks, including data extraction, transformation, and loading;
* Good knowledge of cloud-based data architectures, distributed computing concepts, and big data technologies (e.g., PySpark, Spark);
* Extensive hands-on experience with Azure data services, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Functions, and Azure Synapse Analytics;
* Good communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
If this sounds like you and you want to join a thriving team, hit the apply button below for consideration!
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
* 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
* Generous and flexible pension schemes.
* Volunteering days - Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid).
* Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Additional Information
As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group's onboarding process, all successful applicants are required to complete the group's employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.
Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
If the role is homeworking, you will be assigned to your closest office and travel may be required in line with business need to that office.
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