Azure Data Engineer (Fixed term contract)
On site
Hereford, United Kingdom
Freelance
04-04-2025
Job Specifications
About The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Azure Data Engineer on a fixed term contract to join our Data team at allpay limited.
As an Azure Data Engineer some of your key duties will be to:
Deliver data solutions in accordance with agreed organisational standards that ensure services are resilient, scalable and future-proof.
Ensure data is secured across different clients and in line with legislation.
Ensure that test data is masked appropriately in development and test systems.
Triage data pipeline problems and data-related issues and coordinate between teams to ensure successful resolution.
Liaise with all allpay departments and involvement in projects for future customer requirements and implementations. Will need to work very closely with all IT departments to meet with and exceed client expectations.
Design, build, test, and maintain data pipelines to connect operational systems, data for analytics and BI systems
Deliver services that are automated, reliable and secure
About You
You’ll demonstrate to us that you have:
Degree or qualification/experience obtained in the field of Computer Science, IT, engineering, Maths, Physics or equivalent
Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate desirable.
Designing, building, and optimising data ingestion/ETL pipelines suitable for on-prem and Cloud-based architectures.
Azure technologies: Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Cosmos, Azure Data Explorer, Logic apps, and KQL-Kusto.
Data warehousing, Kimball’s methodology, in particular.
Detailed understanding structured database systems, including MS SQL Server (essential) and MySQL (desirable)
Advanced knowledge of SQL queries, stored procedures and triggers. Ability to tune and optimise query performance, recommend indexes.
About Us
allpay Limited are one of the fastest growing Fintech companies in the UK and are experts in the payment and financial services arena. We have also successfully diversified into a number of other sectors.
People are at the heart of allpay and we reward our employee with a competitive benefits package which includes, a defined contribution group pension scheme, income protection, life assurance, an array of health and wellbeing options including private healthcare cover and an onsite gym. This is coupled with our excellent Learning and Development offering.
We work with some great recruitment agencies. We don’t choose to partner with everyone. Explicit consent or confirmation must be received from our HR department before we accept CV’s. Contractual terms and specific campaigns must have been signed and agreed before you are considered a partner. We never accept unsolicited CV’s, EVER! Even from our trusted partners. We consider it “spoiling,” which does not endear you to us. By sending us unsolicited CV’s we deem these a free gift. If we choose to engage these candidates directly we will not pay you any fees. You will be deemed to have accepted this zero fee by providing unsolicited or spoiled candidates.
We are a company committed to Equal Opportunities.
All roles at allpay Limited are subject to successful background checks including a DBS and Credit Check.
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As a business we pride ourselves on making payments easy. We stand as a leading payments specialist in the UK, facilitating the seamless collection and distribution of funds between organisations and their customers. Established in 1994, allpay has consistently been at the forefront of payment aggregation, processing over £9.4 billion annually for over 900 public and private sector entities. With over three decades of experience, we now process in excess of 66.4 million transactions annually, offering a comprehensive bill... Know more
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