Azure Data Engineer - Azure, SQL, Python, Investment Management - Hybrid - 6 month initial contract - up to 650 Inside IR35 via umbrella
 
A global Investment management firm are looking for a contract Azure Data Engineer to join their team on an initial 6 month basis.
 
Joining a team that has doubled in size in recent years, the Technology department relies on some 3rd party vendors for client services, security operations, monitoring etc. but the core platform is built and supported internally on Azure. Part of their current remit is to drive the adoption of the digital cloud platform providing ETL/data integration pipelines, data transformation, data staging, data warehouse reporting and analytics using the core Azure stack.
 
The successful candidate would work alongside a team of architects, developers, application support specialists and delivery teams to provide data engineering expertise in support of several major integration, data analytics and reporting projects, continuously improving and modernising systems. 
 
Key Skills:

• Proven record working with Azure relational and NoSQL databases, data warehouses, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Highly experienced in building and optimizing data queries. Good with manipulating, processing and preparing datasets.
• Highly experienced in working with data engineering technologies including ADLS, ADF, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL, and Azure Synapse, PowerBI and can create E2E data processing pipelines.
• Experience working within Financial Services, preferably Investment Management.
• Good working knowledge of scripting languages such as Python/PySpark.
• A good understanding of data foundation concepts, such as data modelling, data quality management and data governance.
• Previously created or enhanced CI/CD build and release pipelines using Azure DevOps and GIT.
• Knowledge of other scripting languages such as YAML, PowerShell, Terraform etc.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Azure engineer to join an ever-growing Investment Manager working on initiatives to build global developing economies. 


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