Job description

Full Time, Fixed Term until 1st July 2025

A great opportunity has arisen to join Bristol City Council’s Data and Insight Team at an exciting time as we develop our Azure Data and Analytics Platform. You will join a team providing corporate wide data and analytics to achieve the strategic objective of becoming increasingly data driven, facilitating better decision making.

We require an enthusiastic, self-motivated and experienced Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering Team.

This team is responsible for the loading and transformation of data from source systems into our Azure hosted Data Lake.

You will have good experience and a strong understanding of developing data loading pipelines in Azure Data Factory, additional knowledge in other Azure cloud solutions such as Azure Synapse/Data bricks would also be welcomed.

You will be monitoring and maintaining existing, as well as developing new, data loading pipelines to migrate data into the data lake from corporate source systems for the use in data analytics.

Working within the team of Data Engineers you will develop processes to automate data loads on an agreed schedule, develop processes to ensure that data quality and accuracy is always maintained, and implement amendments and changes to data loads as required.

You will also work collaboratively with the Data Management Lead and Data Analytics Team ensuring that data in the data lake is secure, classified correctly and transformed appropriately for use in PowerBI reports.

You will need an enquiring mind and to be capable of troubleshooting and resolving often complex data related processes using Azure based applications.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.