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Data Engineer

Digital Data & Technology

Bristol, Exeter, or Plymouth

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Are you an experienced Data Engineer ready to embark on an exciting journey in the heart of legal innovation? If you’re passionate about helping to shape the future of data infrastructure in a seriously ambitious law firm, we would love to have you on our team!

As a Data Engineer at Foot Anstey, you will be responsible for the development and continuous improvement of our data infrastructure, including working within our agile delivery teams to develop new solutions / enhancements and supporting our technical services team with any LIVE issues. Further responsibilities will include building data solutions to requirements, root cause analysis and resolution of issues/bugs, demoing work to stakeholders of all levels in collaboration with various teams (i.e. project, training and adoption, and IT support) and providing technical expertise / guidance as required.  You’ll ensure technical changes are made in accordance with the chosen delivery methodology in line with our coding standards, deployment controls and testing framework.  Acting as an internal technical expert for work across data applications you’ll be accountable for knowing what changes have been made to the base applications alongside understanding how our partner frameworks can be leveraged appropriately.  

What you will do:

  • Provide hands-on technical expertise to design and implement data-based solutions satisfying user requirements.
  • Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners in implementing the best solution for certain circumstances and requirements.
  • Keep abreast of new technologies and be aware of industry standards, best practices, and trends.
  • Work closely with our development partners to understand their capabilities and how we can leverage these as much as possible within the development process.
  • Provide feedback, advice, and informed opinion where appropriate.
  • Have a natural ability to impart your knowledge to all types of internal and external stakeholders.

What we’re looking for:

  • Proven experience working as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
  • The ability to communicate complex technical problems clearly via demos, documentation and knowledge sharing to all manner of stakeholders.
  • The ability to listen and communicate to stakeholders to understand their challenges.
  • Experience producing and maintaining clear, effective documentation.
  • Experience supporting a QA team with smoke testing and functional testing.
  • The ability to understand 3rd Party applications, and how they interact with our features.
  • The ability to anticipate and advise of any unexpected implications of suggested system changes.
  • Experience of working closely with BAs to question and understand business requirements.
  • Good communication in stand-ups, with stakeholders and the rest of the project team.
  • Someone who proactively identifies areas where certain solutions can be improved.
  • Someone who is eager to learn and to proactively improve knowledge through online training materials, blogs, etc. alongside sharing this with the wider team.
  • Flexibility, and the ability to adapt quickly to changes.
  • The ability to remain calm under pressure.
  • Confidence in providing guidance to and support the users in their efforts to become proficient in the use of the applications.
  • Microsoft certification in relevant data engineering areas preferable but not mandatory.

Required technical skills:

  • SQL Server
  • Azure: Azure SQL, DataFactory (ETL), Logic Apps, Event Grid, Key vaults, ARM templates (IAC), DevOps Pipelines (CI/CD)
  • Power BI
  • Git
  • Dataverse
  • SSIS
  • KingswaySoft
  • PowerShell
  • Power Platform/Desirable
  • Peppermint CX365/Desirable
  • Azure DevOps/Desirable

If you are looking for a forward-thinking firm with the ambition to succeed, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!  

Pre-employment screening

Successful applicants will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team.

Eligibility to work in the UK

Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying and keep up to date with any legal developments.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters. Take a look here to find out more about Our benefits | Foot Anstey.

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions.  By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from seven locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London.

Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021.  We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us.  As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

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