Junior Cloud Engineer - Data & Analytics

Internal Job Title: Junior Cloud Engineer - Data & Analytics

Business: Lucy Group Ltd

Location: Oxford

Job Reference No: 4380

Job Purpose

To work collaboratively with Power BI Developers, Data Pipeline Analysts, Service Management Teams and Business Users to support the development, maintenance and evolution of a Microsoft-based platform for data & analytics.

Job Context

• Working closely with solutions architects and development teams to maintain and support the provision of enterprise data & analytics for business users
• Evolving data & analytics global services, predominantly using Microsoft Cloud technologies and Power Platform tools, with particular focus on data quality, reliability and accessibility assessment

Job Dimensions

• An occasional need to visit other sites or business partners at their premises for stakeholder engagement or to attend specific industry events, globally
• Hybrid/Home Working associated with other UK offices may be available, subject to business requirements

Key Accountabilities

These will include:

• Supporting the rationalisation and integration of multiple data sources into a secure, adaptive, 'evergreen' technology ecosystem
• Maintaining security, reliability and appropriate architecture design according to company policies
• Assist in performing functional testing of data flows, dashboards and reports including data validation against business rules and quality standards
• Facilitating cloud based configuration to enable users to gain insights from data, measured by assessment of business outcomes
• Maintaining operational and customer facing documentation for technical support processes and defined project deliverables
• Inputting into the continuous assessment of new features and components to support the future proofing and onward compatibility of the production environment, by evolving the knowledge base
• Troubleshooting production issues and coordinate with others to resolve incidents and complete tasks using IT Service Management tools, as part of a cross functional team

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

• Effective communication skills in the global Business Language, English
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure toolsets and compute services as a Junior Cloud Engineer role or similar
• Confidence in Exploratory Data Analysis to evaluate data quality and functional testing techniques, provide key business insights, and identify areas for further investigation
• Competence to create well formed supporting documentation and follow project management process
• Ability to carry out Business as Usual support (BAU) for data & analytics services while working on projects and technical workstreams at the same time
• General understanding of a company's 'value chain' and basic manufacturing industry terminology
• Working knowledge of PowerShell, Python, MS SQL or similar language
• Basic familiarity of Power BI, Fabric, M365 administration, Copilot, MS DevOps and branching concepts

Behavioural Competencies

• Good interpersonal skills to enable process improvement through positive interaction with others
• Keen problem solver with desire to share knowledge
• Customer oriented, able to work flexibly in a changing business landscape

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