Data Engineer

🕒 October 21, 2025

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Olive Jar Digital

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

SaaS • B2B • Consulting

Olive Jar Digital is one of the UK’s fastest growing, award-winning digital consultancies, championing managed digital delivery services and the provision of expert talent to enhance your team, satisfying your user needs. They offer services in digital transformation, cloud computing, business intelligence, and data analytics. The company provides individual consultants or full agile teams with a wide range of specialist skills to fulfill diverse delivery needs. Olive Jar Digital is dedicated to helping businesses scale up by managing projects from discovery to live launch, ensuring quality and adherence to budget and timelines as part of a collaborative approach.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and optimise data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and delivery across structured and unstructured sources. • Develop and maintain metadata capture processes to support data cataloguing and lineage. • Implement and document data quality rules, retention policies, and data optimisation processes. • Support large-scale deployment and configuration of Microsoft Purview. • Establish automated scanning and metadata ingestion for source systems. • Configure data lineage, glossary, and metadata structures to align with governance and compliance standards (UK GDPR, ISO 27001). • Assess current data platform performance; identify and resolve bottlenecks across ingestion, processing, query, and reporting layers. • Conduct benchmarking (e.g., latency, throughput, cost efficiency) and implement storage/DQ optimisations. • Develop and apply storage tiering and retention strategies. • Collaborate with Data Governance and Data Quality teams to ensure consistency, accuracy, and compliance. • Contribute to documentation and knowledge transfer for data engineering and digital services teams. • Participate in agile delivery ceremonies, workshops, and technical review sessions.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in data engineering within cloud environments, ideally Azure. • Proficiency in data pipeline development (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, or similar). • Experience implementing and managing Microsoft Purview or equivalent data cataloguing tools. • Solid understanding of metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks. • Knowledge of data governance principles, including GDPR compliance and data retention policy design. • Strong experience in SQL, Python, or PySpark for data manipulation and integration. • Proven ability to optimise performance and manage large data volumes efficiently. • Experience working in agile delivery environments with cross-functional data teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Innovative Culture: Join a team that thrives on creativity and embraces innovation. • Collaborative Team: At Olive Jar Digital, collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. • Professional Growth: We are dedicated to the growth and development of our employees.