Data Engineer (Junior to Mid-Level) - £45,000

Birmingham

Are you passionate about data and looking to develop your career in a business where your work directly influences decision-making across the organisation?

An established and growing UK business is seeking a Data Engineer to join its technology team. This is an excellent opportunity to work with modern data technologies, build reliable data solutions and support stakeholders across multiple business functions.

The Role

As a Data Engineer, you'll play a key role in developing and maintaining the company's data platform, ensuring business-critical data is accurate, accessible and trusted. Working within a collaborative technology team, you'll help deliver data-driven insights that support operational and strategic decisions across the business.

You'll work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, contributing to data engineering, reporting, analytics and data quality initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and enhance data pipelines and data models
• Build and optimise SQL-based transformations and reporting datasets
• Write complex SQL queries to answer business-critical questions
• Create and maintain dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights
• Monitor and improve data quality across the organisation
• Maintain technical documentation and data definitions
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into data solutions

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong SQL skills
• Experience working with relational databases and structured datasets
• Previous experience in a data-focused role involving data transformation, analysis or engineering
• Experience using Git/version control
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical users
• Self-motivated with a proactive and commercially-minded approach

What's on Offer?

• Opportunity to join a growing business with significant investment in technology and data
• Exposure to a wide range of business functions and stakeholders
• Career progression from Junior to Mid-Level Data Engineer
• Supportive and collaborative team environment
• Direct impact on business performance and decision-making
• Ongoing professional development opportunities