Description
Job Title:Azure developer with Big Data experience
Inside IR35
Department/Practice:
Manufacturing and Utilities
Job Purpose and primary objectives:
Reporting to the Development Manager, the Big Data Platform Developer will be part of a development squad building cloud applications in Big Data area for Xoserve
Key responsibilities (please specify if the position is an individual one or part of a team):
1. Add data to BDP to satisfy DDP's Future Roadmap: identify tables necessary for the satisfaction of customer demand for future DDP enhancements eg, reconciliation data
2. The Azure Developer's role will be to apply technical changes to the Azure Data Lake, enabling it to receive an increased amount of production data.
Key Skills/Knowledge:
Design, develop and enhance an Azure Data Lake and Data Warehouse to support data analysis needs.
Build upon existing data models to support the optimised provision of data products to customers.
Undertake technical development to deliver data products that meet the reporting, analytical and insight needs of customers.
Support the technical design, build, test, and delivery of our enterprise data platform capability, following our software development life cycle (SDLC).
Gain a strong understanding of business processes, considering customer user stories to deliver products that support customer's needs.
Build a detailed understanding of existing data platform technologies, operational systems, and data flows to support industry and consumer needs.
Examine complex data, turning it into usable information and insight to help customers make informed business decisions.
Drive forward initiatives that tackle the root cause of technical defects, helping to respond to queries in a timely manner.
Experience required:
Strong knowledge of Modern Data Platform components on Azure including Data Lake Gen2, Synapse/DWH, SQL Server, Data Bricks, Data Factory, HD Insight and Power BI.
Good knowledge of Data Lake and Data Warehouse development.
Strong hands on experience of OLTP and OLAP Datamodelling techniques (eg 3NF, Dimensional Modelling)
Awareness of GDPR and the impacts this has on data processing.
Hands on experience in a range of delivery approaches (eg Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, RAD).