Data Engineer
Summary
Design and build scalable data pipelines and data models for a business intelligence environment, working with modern cloud technologies and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver insights.
Data Engineer
Location: Sunderland
Type: Permanent
Overview
We're partnering with a growing, data-driven organisation that is investing heavily in its technology and analytics capabilities. As part of this journey, they are building out a modern Business Intelligence function to improve reporting accuracy, governance, and insight delivery across the business.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Data Engineer who wants to move beyond dashboarding and play a key role in shaping a scalable, enterprise-grade BI environment.
The Role
You'll join a newly established BI team with a strong mandate to transform how data is modelled, governed, and consumed. Working across both data modelling and reporting layers, you'll help build robust data foundations that support executive decision-making.
This role combines data engineering, data modelling, and reporting delivery - ideal for someone who enjoys working end-to-end within the BI lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable data transformations using modern cloud technologies
- Design, build and optimise scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform and load data from multiple source systems into a centralised data platform
- Build and maintain performant star-schema data models aligned to business definitions
- Develop and enhance dashboards and certified data sources for business stakeholders
- Support governance initiatives including data definitions, documentation, and lineage
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality insights
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in a BI / Data role
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets
- Hands-on experience with Python and Spark
- Experience designing dimensional models
- Experience with BI tools, Tableau or Power BI
- Understanding of data warehousing concepts
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
What's on Offer
- Opportunity to shape a growing BI function from the ground up
- Exposure to modern data technologies and cloud platforms
- Strong focus on professional development and certifications
- Flexible hybrid working
- Comprehensive benefits package