Data Engineer

Northampton

Ref: VA4289

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus performance related bonus
• 29 days holiday including public holidays plus additional days with service
• Pension contributions
• Referral bonus scheme
• Enhanced parental leave
• Enhanced sick pay
• Wagestream—a Financial Wellbeing app giving you ultimate pay control! Get paid when you want, save monthly, enjoy shopping discounts, explore your benefits, and even connect with a financial coach.
• Talk to us about flexible working
• VIP Awards – colleague recognition scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Benefits App – virtual GP appointments, employee assistance programme (EAP), cycle to work, high street discounts, discounted vehicle maintenance & repairs and so much more!
• Steer Academy provides accredited ongoing training – paid for by the business
• Opportunities for career progression

About Us

Steer Automotive Group is the UK's largest independent accident repair group, with more than 200 sites and around 4,500 colleagues. We're investing in a modern data platform on Microsoft Fabric to replace an ageing reporting environment, and this is the first dedicated data engineering hire into our Group IT team.

Role Overview

You'll work alongside our data consultant's delivery team through the platform build, learning the architecture, pipelines and governance model first-hand. As the build matures, you'll take increasing ownership of the platform and become Steer's technical voice as our consultant's role moves from delivery to advisory. You'll work with our BI Analysts, who own reporting and dashboards, while you focus on the engineering layer beneath: ingestion, transformation and platform reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Work through the Fabric medallion (Bronze / Silver / Gold) build with our consultant's engineers, using Pipelines, Notebooks, Spark, OneLake and Delta Lake in a live delivery setting.
• Take ownership of ingestion from our core systems (Autoflow, Eclipse, People, NetSuite and file-based sources), keeping pipelines and refreshes reliable.
• Own day-to-day platform health, including capacity monitoring and resolving failures without relying on external support.
• Apply data governance and security controls, including row-level security and Entra-based access, and contribute to the data catalogue and lineage in Microsoft Purview.
• Support Git-based CI/CD and separate production and non-production environments.
• Feed practical, delivery-informed input into the roadmap for future use cases such as operational KPIs and advanced analytics.

Qualifications and Skills

Essential:

• Proven hands-on experience delivering data engineering solutions in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks or Azure Synapse.
• Strong Spark/PySpark and/or T-SQL skills, applied to production data pipelines.
• Experience designing or working within medallion and dimensional data models.
• Experience with Power BI semantic models and DAX.
• Understanding of data governance, access control and GDPR-aware data handling.
• Experience of working in a small team and learning directly from external delivery partners or consultants.
• Self-sufficient and comfortable in a build-from-scratch environment.

Desirable:

• Microsoft DP-700 (Fabric Data Engineer Associate) or equivalent; dbt, Git-based CI/CD and Azure DevOps; experience in a multi-site or acquisitive business, or in automotive, retail or another operationally intensive sector.

Why Join Us?

• Be the first dedicated data engineer at the heart of a major platform investment.
• Learn Fabric, Spark and the governance model directly from specialist delivery engineers.
• Grow with the platform, with the chance to shape how Steer's data function develops, including future hires.
• Remote working, with occasional travel to our offices

If you are passionate about technology and dedicated to providing excellent support, apply today to join Steer Automotive Group as a Data Engineer!