Data Engineer

Data Engineer
Exeter, Devon (hybrid working)

The Company

FDB (First Databank) is the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions. With thousands of customers worldwide and four decades of experience, FDB enables our developer partners to deliver actionable solutions that help improve patient safety, quality, and healthcare outcomes. Our values drive our work, and we have clear expectations, work better together, are constantly curious and put health at heart.

We are now looking for a Data Engineer to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- Competitive salary
- Annual company bonus scheme
- Healthshields flexible health cash-back scheme
- Enhanced pension scheme
- 25 days' holiday per annum plus statutory holidays
- Flexible options for employees to purchase up to five additional days' holiday
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Charity days
- ….and many more!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced IT engineer with testing and refactoring experience and expertise in Databricks, Power BI, Python, TSQL and ETL to step into a key position with our leading company.

The perfect chance to hone your data skillset, you’ll be able to work on a variety of programs and develop innovative solutions, elevating your IT expertise. With our inspiring initiative at the heart of your work, you’ll be at the forefront of making the world a healthier place!

Ready to take your career to the next level? Read on and apply today to be part of our innovative team!

The Role

As a Data Engineer, you will develop high quality, innovative solutions that strive to improve the health of our world and environment.

Working openly and collaboratively with a diverse range of experts, you will follow Agile methodologies for the design, development and acceptance of data components for software solutions.

You will collaborate with our Product Owner to understand customer requirements and gain an understanding of implementation to inform solution scoping. Performing critical assessments, you will challenge assumptions and identify the most appropriate acceptance criteria to mitigate risk.

Developing solutions that adopt common data engineering best practices, you will design for scalability and performance, ensure data quality, implement robust error handling, undertake monitoring and logging, and adhere to security and privacy standards.

Additionally, you will:

- Undertake requirements analysis, scoping, specification definition, data analysis and project management
- Create production code and perform code reviews
- Utilise established design patterns and best practices

About You

To be considered as a Data Engineer, you will need:

- Experience working with TSQL, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Databricks, Power BI and Python
- Test Automation experience
- Refactoring experience
- Unit testing and mocking experience
- Working knowledge of Agile and Scrum development methodologies

Other organisations may call this role Software Engineer, Data Module Developer, BI Engineer, Business Intelligence Engineer, Power BI Engineer, Python Engineer, or IT Data Engineer.

Webrecruit and First Databank UK Ltd are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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