Are you ready to take your career to the next level as a Data Engineer? We are excited to offer you a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic team that thrives on innovation and excellence. We are looking for passionate individuals like you to join our team delivering quality solutions to meet our customers' needs.

Ashton Court is a forward-thinking information systems consultancy and long standing Microsoft Partner taking a lead in digital transformation. We pride ourselves on our innovative approach and our commitment to delivering outstanding results. We aim to be a long-term partner in our customers’ transformative journey and are looking for a technologically well-versed and curious individual to join our team of highly skilled professionals with a wealth of experience to share.
 

Job Purpose

• Developing accurate, efficient data transformations that meet customer needs within agreed deadlines
• Ensuring the reliability, robustness, and resilience of the projects you design and build, while working independently within agreed standards
• Creating and maintaining data pipelines, data storage solutions, data processing, and data integration. Troubleshooting issues and implementing necessary fixes.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and building reliable, robust, and accurate data pipelines based on agreed best practices
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of sources using SQL and other technologies
• Design ETL processes, develop integration workflows, and manage data load processes to support both regular and ad-hoc activities
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture, which might include integrating with Dataverse via cloud flows or external data sources
• Design, develop, and maintain data warehouse environments
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, including automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.

Personal Characteristics

• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills with a keen desire to deliver high-quality solutions, which can be delivered within project timescales
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present findings and solutions to non-technical audiences
• Capable of delivering solutions to solve business requirements
• Good interpersonal skills for building long-term relationships with clients, partners, and team members
• Highly organised, including ability to manage self and others to achieve deadlines
• Professional and effective approach to resolving problems.

Technical Skills

• 3-5 years' established experience as a Data Engineer
• Data management and warehousing
• ETL and ELT
• Data architecture and experience building complex database systems for businesses
• SQL Server including query optimisation
• Experience with programming languages and tools C#, Python, Visual Studio Code and JSON
• 2+ years' Dynamics 365 CRM experience
• Power Platform: Power Automate, Dataverse
• Data management and warehousing
• ETL and ELT
• Data architecture and experience building complex database systems for businesses
• SQL Server including query optimisation
• Coding experience to include low code/no-code solutions
• Comfortable working with a range of data sources and formats e.g. JSON, XML, Flat files, API Integration
• Machine Learning and AI
• Normalisation and de-normalisation
• Understanding of Snowflake architecture, data modelling, and administration.

Qualifications

• Degree in a numerate, business or computing subject, or an equivalent qualification
• Microsoft Certified Professional or able to gain MCP qualifications through self-study
• A level qualification or equivalent.

What We Offer

• Industry aligned competitive salary
• 31 days annual leave, including bank holidays
• Continuous professional development
• Access to learning resources to support study to achieve Microsoft certifications
• Bonus paid on passing exams to gain specific Microsoft certifications
• Opportunity to work from home to ensure a healthy work/life balance
• Company pension scheme
• Employee Wellbeing Strategy including Company Away Days and Company social activities.

This role is UK-based and will require visits to customer sites in the UK and Ashton Court's HQ in Northampton. The position involves flexible working, with the opportunity to work from home. Although the majority of our staff work from or within a reasonable commute to our offices, we also have staff working remotely from wider locations.  We welcome applications from candidates located throughout the UK, particularly based around the Midlands.  However, ability and attitude are more important than location.

Strictly Personal Applicants Only. Please apply here to upload your CV and cover letter, describing why you feel you are right for this position, together with details of your current and minimum salary expectations, current benefits and notice period. Salary is commensurate with experience. Ref: 2408. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Please note we cannot sponsor applicants for a visa. Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK and are resident in the UK. 

Interview Process
Ashton Court Group is an equal opportunities employer. Interviews are conducted in a two-stage process. Successful applicants will be invited to an initial Teams interview and assessment of your technical skills, followed by a second stage in depth interview with senior management. Full details will be provided at a later date for those who are selected.

Recruitment Agencies
Strictly no agency contact in response to this vacancy. We have a strict company policy to recruit directly. We therefore do not accept speculative CVs and/or cold calls to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Managers.