Location
Hybrid
All Departments
Data Engineering & Administration
Advertising Salary:
£53,000 - £59,000 plus excellent benefits
Careers Site Advertising End Date
04 Apr 2025

About The Role

We’re not just your average health company; we’re aiming to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK by offering innovative health and wellbeing solutions that are affordable, accessible, and effective. From preventive care to comprehensive medical support, we aim to empower individuals to take charge of their health, inspiring them to make the most of their wellbeing. Added to that we’re the first health insurer in the UK to be awarded B-Corp status in recognition of our significant achievements in sustainability, in addition to our ambitious environmental and social responsibility goals.  
 

At Simplyhealth, data is at the heart of how we understand our customers and deliver exceptional experiences. As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role in bringing Simplyhealth’s data-driven strategy to life.

We have built a scalable, reliable, and secure cloud data platform in Microsoft Azure and are on an exciting journey to further enhance our data capabilities. Your work will be instrumental in ingesting, transforming, and surfacing data to empower business decisions and drive better customer outcomes.

As part of the Data Engineering Team, you will:

  • Become a subject matter expert in your data domain.
  • Design, develop, implement and optimise data products to meet business needs.
  • Work with multiple data sources, ensuring seamless ingestion and transformation.
  • Design and implement Star Schema data models.
  • Leverage modern cloud data technologies and tools in Azure.

Key responsibilities

  • Design, build, and support scalable and reliable data solutions.
  • Document architecture, process flows, and key decisions.
  • Model and structure data using best practices in data warehousing and reporting.
  • Analyse and understand data structures in existing and new systems.
  • Communicate complex concepts in both technical and non-technical terms to ensure clarity for all stakeholders.
  • Take technical ownership of a workstream, becoming a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a data domain.
  • Deploy, maintain, and enhance data solutions across environments.
  • Continuously improve the data platform and products delivered to end users.
  • Evaluate and interpret data, drawing actionable insights from analysis.
  • Optimise performance, including tuning code and conducting peer reviews to uphold best practices.
  • Prioritise effectively within development cycles and fast-paced timelines.
  • Collaborate closely with platform and data teams to drive innovation.
  • Stay engaged with emerging data trends and technologies.
  • Explore alternative approaches to traditional data warehousing techniques.
  • Keep up to date with the latest Azure services and advancements.
  • Research and prototype new tools to enhance efficiency and innovation.
  • Engage effectively with stakeholders across all levels, demonstrating strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ensure compliance with company policies, GDPR, and data governance best practices, treating data as a critical asset.
 
 

About You

You thrive in a dynamic environment, continuously seeking efficiencies and embracing new technologies. As a trusted expert, you will champion best practices, helping Simplyhealth make the most of its data.

To be considered you must have:

  • Strong Data Engineering experience writing data pipelines & integrations in Azure (SQL, Python, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric)
  • Development and implementation of data warehouse and lakehouse architectures in Azure (Synapse, ADLS, OneLake, Fabric Warehouse & Lakehouse)
  • Kimball star schema modelling, design and implementation
  • Querying structured data in both RDBMS and Warehouse databases (e.g.: Azure Synapse – Serverless & Dedicated SQL Pools, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
  • Knowledge of querying semi-structured and unstructured data (e.g.: Azure Cosmos DB, APIs)
  • Experience with designing and delivering efficient ETL / ELT / ingestion processes (e.g.: Azure Data Factory, Fabric Dataflows / Shortcuts / Mirroring etc)
  • Developing methods of sharing data via dashboards and reports with data visualisation tools, or via flat files (e.g.: Power BI, SSRS, Azure Data Share etc)
  • Understanding of Azure data platform capabilities, including performance tuning, security, scalability, monitoring
  • An understanding of infrastructure as code (e.g.: Bicep, Terraform)
  • Knowledge of file formats and their utilisation (e.g.: XML, JSON, CSV, YAML, Parquet)
  • Experience with source control and branching and merging strategies (eg: Azure DevOps, Git etc)
  • Experience working within Agile methodologies (Kanban)

Our dream candidate will also have

  • Microsoft Certification

 

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:

  • Group bonus scheme
  • Generous pension with a 6% pension gift from us
  • 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays) - with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days
  • Flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private medical insurance, shopping vouchers and more)
  • Your own health plan
  • Access to a wellbeing hub
  • Shopping discounts
  • Recognition awards
  • Give as you earn
  • 3 volunteering days

We have a head office in Hampshire, but depending on your role, you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more.

Your Recruitment Journey

We’re focused on providing an application, assessment and onboarding journey that is fair, consistent, diverse and inclusive for all, allowing us to hire top talent based on the skills and behaviours pivotal to your and our success.

Your process

  • Screening call with Talent Acquisition Team
  • Virtual Interview with the hiring manager and team
  • Aptitude assessment
  • Presentation/case study with the hiring manager and team
  • Offer

Should you require any additional support with your application, or need us to make any adjustments for you, please contact our Talent Team: [email protected].

Please note: Working for a purpose driven company like ours is a fantastic opportunity so we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles. In these cases, we may close our job adverts early and aren’t able to consider applications after this time.

 

 



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