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Data / BI Engineer

Job Description - Data / BI Engineer

We are seeking a Mid/Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data solutions that support business intelligence, analytics, and strategic decision-making. This is a hands-on role focused on developing modern data pipelines, data warehouses, and Power BI solutions while ensuring data quality, performance, and reliability.

Working closely with business and technical teams, you will translate business requirements into robust data solutions and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the organization's data platform and architecture.



Requirements

Key responsibilities

Technical solution development

  • Translate business requirements into technical data solutions.
  • Participate in and contribute to architectural forums within the Business Intelligence (BI) team.
  • Design and implement ETL and data pipeline architectures using tools such as Azure Data Factory (ADF).
  • Automate processes and design system architectures.
  • Develop and manage Power BI semantic models, including DAX queries and cubes.
  • Translate metrics into visual Power BI reports and dashboards.
  • Integrate data between legacy and modern systems.
  • Create ad-hoc SQL scripts to support user queries.
  • Deploy and manage data solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure.

Data modelling and management

  • Apply data warehouse modelling techniques, including schemas, facts, dimensions and the building of data warehouses.
  • Write complex SQL queries, joins, views and stored procedures to extract and manipulate data.
  • Apply knowledge and practical experience across the data warehouse life cycle.
  • Perform data modelling, including dimensional, multi-dimensional and relational models.
  • Use T-SQL for database management and querying.
  • Support batch processing and scheduling tasks.

Documentation and support

  • Create and maintain technical documentation, including data architecture diagrams, ETL workflows and system documentation, to ensure maintainability.
  • Participate in design, peer and code reviews.
  • Provide daily technical, functional and operational support for existing BI solutions.

Monitoring and optimisation

  • Monitor data pipeline and infrastructure performance.
  • Identify bottlenecks and optimise for scalability, reliability and cost-efficiency.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues.

Strategic and emerging technology contributions

  • Contribute to evolving the architecture towards modern platforms, whether on-premise or cloud-based.
  • Maintain working knowledge of Power BI reporting.
  • Ensure technical skills stay relevant to emerging industry trends and organisational strategies, including Azure cloud solutions and artificial intelligence initiatives.
Key Requirements:
  • 5+ years experience.
  • Relevant tertiary qualification and certification.

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