Senior Azure Data Engineer - Managed Services
Summary
A senior data engineer in Hippo Digital's Managed Services team designs, supports, and optimizes secure Azure data platforms for client projects using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, T-SQL/SQL Server, SSIS, and CI/CD via Azure DevOps. They also mentor junior engineers and manage relationships across multiple client environments.
In this role you drive data engineering within Hippo’s Managed Services, delivering secure, scalable data platforms and hands-on engineering for client projects. You’ll lead and mentor within a cross-functional team, ensuring reliable data solutions and operational excellence. You will work with clients and internal stakeholders to translate data problems into robust, automated pipelines and improvements. This is a growth-focused senior position with hands-on impact and opportunities to shape data practices at scale.
Pay / Benefits- Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)
- 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
- Perkbox access for discounts
- Critical illness cover
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Provide technical leadership and hands-on data engineering within the Managed Services team
- Support and enhance data solutions built on Microsoft Fabric, SQL, Azure Data Factory, and SSIS
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve data pipeline issues across client environments
- Design and implement robust CI/CD practices for data workflows and deployments
- Lead performance tuning, data optimization, and platform reliability improvements
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate data issues into actionable tasks
- Maintain strong client relationships with reliability, trust, and value delivery
- Share best practices and mentor junior data engineers
- Champion continuous improvement in development, testing, and deployment
- Production data pipelines and platform experience
- Strong knowledge of T-SQL and SQL Server with performance tuning/optimisation
- Python scripting for automation
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory (pipeline orchestration, linked services, environment management, parameterisation)
- Experience with SSIS for ETL and legacy data integration
- CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, Terraform, or ARM templates)
- Familiarity with Power BI, Synapse Analytics, or other Microsoft data tools
- Experience working in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and Test-Driven Development environments
- Strong communication and ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience managing multiple client environments for stability and performance
- Strong communication
- Mentoring of junior engineers
- Client relationship management
- T-SQL
- SQL Server
- Python