Azure DBA and Platform Engineer

Azure SQL DBA / Data Platform Engineer Belfast Hybrid PermanentWe are working with a growing UK software company in the insurance space to hire an Azure SQL DBA / Data Platform Engineer into a brand new role. They build and run the platforms their clients rely on to sell and manage policies across multiple channels, serving everyone from small brokers to large blue chip organisations, and they are sitting on a wealth of valuable real-time policy and quote data across a large client base.This is first and foremost an ownership role. The business has a multi-year strategy to consolidate how it delivers reporting to clients, moving away from one-off bespoke reports towards modern, repeatable Azure tooling, and they need someone to come in, understand the landscape and define the roadmap for how it gets done. You will not be inheriting a finished playbook. You will be writing it. The day-to-day SQL DBA work sits alongside this as the smaller part of the role.What you will be doing:Taking ownership of the reporting and data platform strategy, a multi-year programme to consolidate bespoke client reporting into modern, repeatable Azure solutionsAssessing the current data landscape across a large and varied client base and defining the approach and delivery roadmap yourselfDesigning and building ETL and data delivery pipelines using Azure Data Factory or Microsoft Fabric, delivering data to clients in a range of formats and mechanismsWorking with the head of data on report ..... full job details .....