Data Engineer - Azure

Your key skills and capabilities: 

• Strong SQL and Python skills  

• Data modelling experience (dimensional, relational, or similar)  

• Experience building and maintaining backend systems  

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure  

• Understanding of APIs, containers, and backend development best practices 

• Implementing cloud-native data platforms 

• Engineering scalable and reliable pipelines 

• Good knowledge of distributed computing with Spark 

• Understanding of cloud architecture principles and best practices 

• Hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud resources 

• Agile ways of working 

• Experience in cloud automation and orchestration using tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform 

• Monitoring and performance tuning of cloud-based applications and services  

Nice to haves:  

• Experience with Snowflake, dbt, CubeJS 

• Experience with Databricks, PySpark, ML workflows  

• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps).  

• Frontend development experience (React, Next.js, TypeScript)  

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) 

• Model Deployment & Serving – Deploy and manage ML models using MLflow, Azure ML, SageMaker, or similar, ensuring scalability and performance  

• Monitoring & Retraining – Set up model drift detection, performance monitoring, and automated retraining   

• ML Pipelines & CI/CD – Automate end-to-end ML workflows 

 

Key tasks:  

 

• Develop, maintain, and optimise backend services for our SaaS platform  

• Work with SQL and Python daily to build robust data pipelines and transformations  

• Model, structure, and query data to support product features and reporting  

• Integrate and maintain data ingestion flows (e.g., Fivetran, custom connectors)  

• Implement backend APIs (FastAPI) to power our web application  

• Work with our cloud environment (Azure - experience with AWS or GCP also valuable)  

• Collaborate with teammates to plan, build, and deploy features in an Agile way