Specialist Data Engineer

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Job Title: Specialist Data Engineer

Full-time role

Working Hours : Full-time 35 hours per week

Salary: £64,575 - £70,000 depending on experience

Location: London Docklands (Hybrid). Our permanent hybrid policy sees us all working at least four days across a fortnight in the office.

The Financial Ombudsman Service has been resolving customer complaints since 2001. Our service is free for consumers to use and over 1 million people contact us every year.

The last few years have seen the Financial Ombudsman Service embark on an organisation-wide transformation journey. With the customer at the heart of everything we do, we have already delivered significant improvements in the service we offer and 2026 will see us continue with our ambitious transformation agenda.

This year, we created our new Chief Data Office as part of redefining our data strategy across the organisation. With data playing an increasingly vital role in our transformation journey, the CDO is shaping a modern, cloud-first data landscape that supports innovation, enhances decision-making, and strengthens our customer-centric approach. It's an exciting time to be part of the Data team at the Financial Ombudsman Service

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Synapse and Databricks.

• Contribute to the design, implementation and maintenance of large-scale enterprise data platform solutions, ensuring quality, scalability, reliability and performance.

• Implementing CI/CD pipelines for data solutions.
• Building scalable data pipelines, utilising Azure Data Factory, Synapse and Databricks to build and maintain robust data pipelines that process and transform data efficiently.

• Ensuring the team's SLA obligations for data delivery, and reliability are met, and that incidents and requests are managed appropriately.

• Collaboration and overseeing development and testing of data service improvements with cross-functional teams in all environments.

• Overseeing code promotion process across the data platform solutions and environments, adhering to Service Management change process.

• Partner closely with IT application and infrastructure teams in promoting; strong alignment to security and compliance, continual integration with source systems and efficient infrastructure resource management.

• Oversee the creation and maintenance of technical documentation and knowledge sharing including data flow/mappings, data dictionary, ERD related to the data solutions.

Minimum Criteria:

• Experience in large-scale data warehouse/Lakehouse implementations, transitioning from SQL Server-based data warehouses. Strong ETL pipeline design and implementation skills.

• Creating and optimising data models, writing complex SQL and Python queries.

• Hands on experience with Spark and RESTful APIs

• Solid knowledge of data warehouse and Delta Lakehouse technologies.

• Experience working with Microsoft Azure and SQL technologies such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory.

Desirable Criteria:

• SAP experience

Why Financial Ombudsman Service?

We are a values led organisation. Our values define our culture, influence our decisions, and underpin our vision and strategy. They set out how we play our PART through Purpose, Ambition, Respect and Trust. You can learn more about our values here:

We also offer an attractive, competitive salary and flexible benefits to suit our people. Here's a list of some of the many benefits and perks you can get for working with us:

• 25 days holiday entitlement, with the option to buy extra or sell days
• Generous pension
• Various Family Friendly Policies, including enhanced maternity pay, carers and dependants leave
• Employer provided benefits such as Private medical insurance, virtual GP, Critical illness cover, Life assurance cover, to name a few
• Choice of voluntary benefits including Technology scheme, Cycle to work scheme, Will-writing service amongst others
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Extensive opportunities for personal and career development
• Nationwide gym membership discounts, and a fully equipped on-site gym open 24/7 in London
• Extensive Well-being resources including on-site therapists (London office only)
• Beautiful and bright London office looking over the Thames and near to mainline stations
• Our Coventry office is 2 minutes' walk from the main station
• Our employee led networks (a couple of examples being our Women's Network, Carers network, and Neurodiverse Network) do fantastic work in educating and raising awareness across a range of experiences and support us in being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. You can get involved, too!

How do I apply?

• Please upload an up-to-date CV, ensuring you are highlighting the keys skills/ tools and technologies as per our minimum criteria

Due to high application numbers this advert may end earlier than the date specified, so please don't delay and apply now.

We're proud to be an inclusive employer

We view diversity as fundamental to our success and welcome applications from underrepresented groups across all communities.

We're committed to being a great place to work- attracting and developing people from the widest possible range of backgrounds. We want everyone to perform at their best and feel able to be themselves. We understand that if we're diverse and inclusive, we'll better understand different perspectives, which is fundamental to our job resolving financial complaints.

We welcome applications from Black and other ethnic minority candidates, and female candidates, for all positions and particularly so for senior leader positions as they are under-represented within the Financial Ombudsman Service at this level.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. This means that we will put disabled candidates entering under the scheme through to the next stage of the recruitment process should they meet the minimum criteria for a role. A
minimum criterion needs to be measurable from reviewing a candidate's CV/supporting statement. Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme. If you would like to speak to a member of our team about any reasonable adjustments you need, please email [email protected] and let us know your preferred method of contact.

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