Are you a Data Engineer looking to apply your skills and expertise in an environment in which you have a strong affiliation with? Serving with pride since 1898, Mitchells & Butlers are the heart of UK hospitality. In fact, you already know us, even if you don’t realise it! We own and run more than 1600 pubs, bars and restaurants including the stylish All Bar One brand, legendary Miller & Carter steakhouses, and the iconic Toby Carvery. We are Mitchells & Butlers, and we set the industry standard.

If you’re as passionate about your job, as you are our industry, this could be a great match!

 We have a new to business opportunity to onboard a permanent Azure Data Engineer to join our Business Change & Technology team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Data Engineer to share their expertise and influence our data mission, therefore if you are particularly passionate about supporting stakeholders to understand data through exploration this role could be for you.   

You’ll be well rewarded…

• Annual bonus scheme worth up to 30% of your salary. We’re all about rewarding hard work!
• Permanent contract with full time hours, and flexible working available to fit work around your personal commitments
• Based at our Head Office/Retail Support Centre located in the heart of Birmingham, with the option to work from home / remotely throughout the week
• A pension that pays, where we’ll more than match your contributions (x1.5 of your contributions, up to a maximum of 5% of your salary)
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus option to buy up to 2 weeks extra holiday – life is for living after all!
• Opportunity to opt in to Sharesave Plan, enabling you to save to buy shares or have money returned
• 33% off at all our brands, including our hotels. Whether it’s date night at Miller & Carter or a family roast at Toby Carvery, we’ve got you covered!
• Private healthcare, dental plan, cycle to work, and keep fit schemes

The Opportunity – Azure Data Engineer

As a subject matter expert for Mitchells & Butlers, you will:

• Pro-actively design, build and optimise pipelines that store code and deploy solutions using Azure DevOps
• Ingest, process and model data and support to take raw data and turn it into sound business insights
• Work in partnership with our Architecture community to bring technology to life in-line with our technology strategy and architectural plans and roadmaps
• Enable our mission to ingest, store, cleanse, model and transform data for Insights Machine Learning models, dashboard and reports
• Assure that data is cleansed, mapped, transformed, and otherwise optimised for storage and use according to business and technical requirements
• Solution design using Microsoft Azure services and other tools.
• The ability to automate tasks and deploy production standard code (with unit testing, continuous integration, versioning etc.)
• Data Modelling & strong analytics skills in Analytics.
• Enable a Lambda Architecture and develop solutions that support fast and slow moving data.
• Make use of coding languages such as C#, Python, R, SQL or PowerShell to develop solutions.
• Work with multiple different file types and formats such as JSON, XML, Parquet, CSV.
• Implement security to ensure data can be accessed appropriately based on ACL and or RBAC.
• Ensure data is catalogued and appropriately labelled according to our Information Classification policy.
• Ensure alignment with GDPR and PCI standards where appropriate.
• Use knowledge of API Management tools and techniques to develop API proxies and make use of out of the box functionality to quickly add value, build composite api’s and enable data consumption

What do I need?

Just like our brands, our teams are diverse. You’ll need...  

• To be an expert in your field, with solid experience in a hands on technical Data Engineer role, using Azure Data Factory, DevOps, Storage & Data lake, or the equivalent to
• Highly self‐motivated, self‐directed, and attentive to detail
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks.
• The ability to think laterally and constructively question established process.
• Passion to learn new technology and technical skills to solve problems and bridge gaps
• Experience of developing and integrating with JSON and REST API’s
• High calibre of communication skills, written and verbal

Closing Date - 13th April 2023