Senior Data Platform Engineer – Holman UK
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire HQ (hybrid possible). Salary: £65,000. Permanent full‑time.
Responsibilities include:
* Design, develop, document, and execute data solutions, tools and practices.
* Evaluate emerging data platform technologies.
* Lead technology implementations.
* Follow and contribute to best practices for data management and governance.
* Collaborate with the Data Architecture team to understand and implement load processes for reporting and analytic data structures (data warehouses, data marts and data lakes).
* Performance tune and troubleshoot processes under development and in production as necessary.
* Work with the Data Architects to augment ERDs as changes are developed.
* Develop, maintain, and extend reusable data components.
* Provide timely project and task updates to all concerned parties.
* Monitor production data integration jobs and correct failures promptly.
* Create and manage incident reports as they pertain to data integration processes.
* Perform all other duties and special projects as assigned.
* Support other team members in overcoming technical challenges.
* Manage projects as requested.
Qualifications required:
* 5+ years Azure exposure (Databases, Data Factory, Synapse Studio, Storage Account, Power Platform).
* 5+ years ANSI SQL experience.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent (Master’s preferred).
* Azure Certifications preferred.
* Experience with Azure Resources: DevOps, Logic Apps, Gen2 Storage, Purview.
* Power BI dataset creation/maintenance.
* 5+ years data modeling exposure.
* Advanced problem‑solving and critical‑thinking mindset.
* Azure connectivity/authentication (service principals, managed identities, certificates).
* Experience with SQL Server, Oracle, Python, Spark.
* Strong knowledge of Azure tenant, settings and logging/audit.
Additional desirable skills:
* Proficiency in reading ER diagrams.
* Strong knowledge of SQL Server or other enterprise database.
* Ability to provide work estimates and track own work tasks through to on-time completion.
* Ability to communicate effectively at a technical level verbally and in writing with other team members.
* Willingness to mentor junior engineers.
* Confidence and skills to lead projects from a technical perspective and provide updates to project managers.
Benefits & Perks
* 26 days off a year + bank holidays.
* Health cash plan.
* Free onsite bi‑weekly yoga and massage.
* Personal pension plan.
* Bonus scheme.
* Career development support and training opportunities.
* Seasonal events and social opportunities.
* Recognition and rewards through Partners in Excellence programme.
Eligibility & Conditions
* You must have the right to remain and work in the UK.
* You must declare any past convictions or cautions.
* No visa sponsorship is provided.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
We want to positively encourage differences within Holman UK and believe it is critical to our success as a company. Holman UK is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace that seeks to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We encourage applications from all genders, races, religions, ages, sexual orientations, parents, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to our business.
Holman provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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