In this exciting role as Data Engineer, you’ll be playing a pivotal role in enabling our colleagues to make the best choices for our customers and members, by using data driven insight.

You’ll be managing a range of data sources (API, on-premise, cloud, flat file) and making sure the data platform to analytics is robust, and data is being ingested and structured correctly.

You’ll help design, develop, build unit tests and deliver pipelines that extract data from sources, transforming data to implement business reason and populate the D&A data store.

Applying data cleansing actions in ETL as well as adapting ETL processes in response to changes in business needs or source systems.

You will demonstrate a knowledge of the structure and meaning of data in both internal and external sources, and help in creating logical and physical operational data stores, staging areas, models, analytical datasets and data products.

As well as helping to shape the data and analytics strategy, you’ll apply your technical skills and knowledge to design, deliver and implement data solutions, applying industry and team best practices and governance

Due to the nature of the role, you’ll need to bring a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure (Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Synapse, Databricks, Azure Functions).

We are looking for someone who is a problem solver and who can demonstrate:

• An understanding of data concepts and data modelling principles

• Experience of building Azure functions.

• A broad understanding of BI information exploitation methods

• Practical experience of using Microsoft Azure Dev Ops and CI/CD

• Expert SQL knowledge

• Proficiency in Python, PySpark

Desirable, but not a requirement:

• Experience of building data pipelines in Fabric.

• Experience of developing solutions using the wider Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Power Automate)

• Data modelling and transformations using dbt

What is in it for me?

In addition to our competitive salaries, our colleagues also benefit from:

· Fantastic colleague discount- including a discount of up to 20% on our products.

· Retail discounts- our hub offers colleagues access to hundreds of exclusive retail discounts, savings on days out and holiday discounts.

· Holiday buy- colleagues can buy up to a week extra of annual leave each year

· Colleague recognition- we celebrate our colleague’s achievements both personally and professionally

· Enhanced family friendly policies- to help you feel fully supported during any significant life events.

· Colleague Dividend- We pay a share of our profits to eligible colleagues as a thank you for their contribution to our success.

· Paid time for volunteering- we encourage our colleagues to spend three days per year taking part in volunteering, fully paid for by us.

· Give as you earn- helping you support charities which mean something to you.

· Healthcare Cashplan- your wellbeing is important, so you’ve got the opportunity to contribute into a voluntary plan that helps pay towards a range of healthcare expenses.

· Company Pension- you can access a company pension scheme with us as well as access to Pension wellbeing information.

· Life Assurance- after an initial qualifying period, you’ll get free life assurance cover, that pays your nominated beneficiary if you die while you’re working for us.

· Personalised learning and development- with easy access to a wide range of training programmes

· We’ve got you – our new colleague wellbeing campaign, making wellbeing benefits and resources accessible and relevant to the role that you do.

· iTrent Financial Wellbeing (Wagestream)- offers something for all our colleagues, whether you want to track your finances, save some money, or access up to 50% of your earned pay flexibly in a way that suits you.

· Workflex- all of our flexible working options in one place, including our 4 day working week / 9 day fortnight and hybrid working options.

To find out more about all of these plus many more reasons to join us at Central Co-op, please visit Rewards and benefits - Central Coop (careers.coop)

Everyone is welcome here We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments so that all our candidates can show us how they’ll perform their role. There is a section in the application form where you can provide any additional information. Please use this section to include any reasonable adjustments you need, and we’ll do our best to support you through our recruitment process