Data Engineer

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to develop your data career. At Edinburgh Airport, you have the chance to deliver meaningful and tangible change. You will walk around the terminal and campus and see the difference you have helped make.

The Data Engineering team play a pivotal role in the on-going operation of Edinburgh Airport. The team develop and maintain a centralised data warehouse enabling fast and accurate decision-making, reporting and analysis across the entire aerodrome. Data Engineering help coordinate and support the wider analyst community to ensure our datasets drives business efficiency and keep pace with evolving analytical trends. We bring knowledge and experience in the data space.

What you’ll be doing 

• Develop new integrations into SQL Data Warehouse
• Bring new data and analytics technologies to life
• Collaborate with end-users and community groups to build feature rich datasets
• Maintain, manage and monitor the data environment
• Engage end-users and run community groups to drive business improvement
• Deliver assigned initiatives as agreed by IT engagement and management teams
• Pro-actively seek out and recommend improvements

What we’re looking for

• This role requires the successful candidate to obtain a Counter Terrorist Check, so you must have been living in the UK for the last 3 consecutive years
• Good SQL knowledge
• An understanding of data modelling, data structures, databases and ETL methodologies and practices
• Good analytics and critical thinking skills

The following knowledge would be nice to have, but is not essential for this role:

• A relevant technical certification
• MS Azure data engineering toolsets, including Data Factory, Logic Apps and Databricks
• Tableau, Power BI or similar presentation tools
• Data manipulation languages (e.g. Python or R)
• MS Powershell

What we’ll offer you

• Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%
• 32 days holiday, based on full time roles, increasing with service
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services
• Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday