Cloud Data Engineer

Cloud Data Engineer

Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Data Integration

Permanent | £75,000 to £80,000 | London Hybrid (2 days onsite)

Pioneer Search is partnering with a well established insurance & professional services organisation to hire a Cloud Data Engineer into their London based technology function.

This role sits within a mature Azure data estate & is focused on the reliability, integrity, & ongoing improvement of business critical data integrations. It is a hands on position with ownership of live data pipelines, balancing day to day operational responsibility with continuous improvement & platform optimisation.

The role

The Cloud Data Engineer will work closely with application support, cloud engineering teams, third party vendors, & business stakeholders to support & enhance Azure based data integrations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ownership & support of live Azure Data Factory pipelines

• Troubleshooting data feed failures & identifying root cause issues

• Ensuring data integrity, reconciliation, & accuracy across systems

• Writing & optimising SQL for investigation, reporting, & issue resolution

• Monitoring & maintaining data flows between applications

• Implementing incremental enhancements to existing ETL processes

• Supporting cloud migration & optimisation initiatives

• Maintaining technical documentation, known issues logs, & technical debt registers

This is a predominantly BAU focused role, with scope to influence best practice, reliability, & long term improvements across the data platform.

Skills summary

• Strong hands on experience with Azure Data Factory in a production environment

• Solid SQL capability for troubleshooting, reporting, & data validation

• Experience supporting ETL processes & data pipelines end to end

• Ability to trace data flows & resolve issues at source

• Experience working with transactional or financial data sets

• Familiarity with Azure SQL, monitoring, & logging tools

• Exposure to Azure DevOps, Git based workflows, & CI/CD concepts

• Terraform or infrastructure as code experience beneficial but not essential

• Comfortable working in a BAU focused, operationally critical role

Why apply

This role offers the opportunity to join an organisation in the midst of a broader technology & cloud transformation, with data playing a central role in how the business operates & makes decisions.

You will take ownership of a live Azure data platform, working on systems that genuinely matter to the business, while contributing to ongoing modernisation, optimisation, & long term platform improvement. It is well suited to someone who values responsibility, stability, & real world impact over constant greenfield delivery.

We are looking to begin interviews immediately so apply following the link or contact Alex : alexh@pioneer-search.com