Data Engineer

Hybrid 

Full Time/Permanent

Our offer to you 

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive: 

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping 

 
About Us 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,400 employees and over 28,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.  

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, and Young Responders programmes). 

Job Summary 

The role holder will play a key role in the design, delivery and maintenance of data pipelines from our operational systems into our data lake to support the delivery of analytics and insights across the organisation. They will contribute at both a strategic and tactical level developing our data lake, ensuring there is one single version of the truth across SJA, designing and building data pipelines from across our full tech stack. They will be a point of contact on change programmes, ensuring the analytical needs of the organisation are represented as part of new technology implementations and upgrades.

They will communicate with a range of stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, interpreting business requirements into fit for purpose specifications to develop from.
 

About You 

You will be educated  to GCSE level or equivalent (Grade C / 4) including Maths & English, minimum 5 and have a Recognised certification in a technical data capability such as SQL. You will have experience working within a Microsoft Azure environment and Experience with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, extracting information and identifying linkages across disparate data sets and familiar with PaaS database systems (Synapse, Data Factory).

About the Role 

• Collaborate with analysts and business stakeholders to design data pipelines from our operational source systems into our Microsoft Fabric data lake
• Use technologies including SQL and Microsoft Azure to develop these data pipelines, ensuring they are built in accordance with the specification
• Liaise with our Testing team to ensure a clear audit trail of testing is evident at all stages through the development process
• Own the migration of legacy data pipelines from within our current data infrastructure to the data lake, ensuring we can decommission redundant pipelines
• Support the continuous improvement of data pipelines across the organisation

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply) 

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here 

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.    

'St John Ambulance is committed to safeguarding and we promote safe recruitment practice. Therefore, all successful applicants will undergo pre-employment checks, including DBS Clearance, as part of the onboarding process, if applicable to the nature of the role'. 

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.