Senior Azure Data Engineer; Managed Services

About The Role

Hippo is looking for a talented and proactive Senior Data Engineer to join our growing Managed Services team. In this client‑facing role, you’ll work across a variety of data platforms and cloud‑based solutions to ensure our clients’ data environments are robust, scalable, and high performing. You will be a trusted technical expert, solving real‑world data challenges, enhancing platform reliability, and helping clients get real value from their data.

As a Senior Data Engineer at Hippo, you'll be a key contributor within a multi‑disciplinary team, working on digital solutions that deliver real value to users. You’ll collaborate with internal teams and clients to provide technical leadership and hands‑on engineering, guiding platform development and operational excellence.

Please note, we are looking for candidates who are looking for growth at this level (Senior), therefore the advertised salary band is the lower end of our full banding for this level of position, allowing for progression in the role.

• Support and enhance data solutions built on Microsoft Fabric, SQL, Azure Data Factory, and SSIS.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and proactively resolve data pipeline issues across multiple client environments.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD practices for data workflows and deployments.
• Lead on performance tuning, data optimisation, and platform reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, deliver updates, and translate complex data issues into clear actions.
• Maintain strong client relationships with a focus on reliability, trust, and value delivery.
• Share best practices and mentor junior data engineers within the team.
• Champion continuous improvement in development practices, testing, and deployment.

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer supporting production data pipelines and platforms.
• Strong knowledge of T‑SQL and SQL Server with experience in performance tuning and query optimisation.
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory, including pipeline orchestration, linked services, environment management and parameterisation.
• Experience with SSIS for ETL processes and legacy data integration tasks.
• Experience in a range of architecture approaches and building scalable, resilient systems.
• Expertise in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure Dev Ops.
• Proven ability to work within Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and a Test‑Driven Development (TDD) environment.
• Strong communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience in managing multiple client environments, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance optimisation.

• Understanding of data governance, data quality, and metadata management practices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Bicep, Terraform, or ARM templates).
• Familiarity with Power BI, Synapse Analytics, or other components of the Microsoft data ecosystem.
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python for automation or data transformation.
• Exposure to IT Service Management (ITSM) tools like HaloPSA, Service Now, or similar.
• Experience working in a consultancy environment or supporting multiple concurrent client engagements.
• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools like Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
  • private health cover
  • private dental cover
  • additional company pension contributions
  • additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
  • wellbeing contribution
  • charity contributionstree planting

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