Job Description

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We are Eversheds Sutherland, a global law firm, with 5,000+ colleagues in more than 30 countries. We\'re full-service with deep niche and sector experience. Whatever challenge, wherever in the world, we\'re equipped and ready to meet it. We live our values, we\'re purposeful and purpose-led. So although the world is fast-moving and rapidly changing, we see it as a place where everyone can thrive. We\'re ambitious for our clients, our communities - and for you. Whether you\'re starting out on your career or well established, whether you\'re a lawyer or in business services. If you\'re looking for what\'s next, we are too.

What to expect

For business professionals, our environment is highly collaborative with value being placed on diversity of ideas, skills and mindsets. Not least yours. It\'s energetic, fast-moving and there\'s always something new to get involved in. You will get exposure across geographies and the firm as a whole. The future is a place of opportunity. Focusing on your success and for what\'s next, will ensure you thrive too.

Our team

The Data and Analytics team are part of the wider IT Delivery and Operations team primarily based in Birmingham.

Our purpose is to enable the business and our clients to make informed decisions based on trusted insight.

Role and key responsibilities

Part of the Data and Analytics team, the role of Data Engineer is fundamental in the delivery of a best-practice business intelligence infrastructure that will contribute to the delivery of high quality data analytics in line with business priorities. They will be focused on architecting, building, managing and optimising data pipelines/models and then moving these pipelines/models effectively into production for key data and analytics consumers (including but not limited to MI Analysts and Data Scientists). They will be required to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to identify the optimal ways in which requirements can be achieved.

• The Data Engineer will support the delivery of our data projects in line with the firm-wide strategy.
• Promotes best practices and ideas on effective data sharing and consumption. Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.
• Responsible for architecting, creating, testing, maintaining and optimising data pipelines and data models.
• Ensure that the data users and consumers use the data provisioned to them responsibly through data governance and compliance initiatives.
• Work with modern data and analytics tools to automate repeatable and error-prone data integration and data preparation flows.
• Takes a proactive role in upskilling counterparts in data pipelining and preparation techniques to make it easier for them to integrate and consume the data they need for their own use cases.
• Maintaining a up to date data dictionary and other appropriate metadata management tools to enable the business to understand their data assets and drive for single source of the truth.
• Manages a high, and sometimes complex, workload day to day with the ability to prioritise work and achieve time sensitive deadlines whilst keeping a focus on the long term wider strategic goals of the team.
• Excellent collaboration skills in order to work with varied stakeholders in the organisation.
• Building close relationships with data scientists and management information analysts in refining their data requirements for various data and analytics initiatives and their consumption requirements.
• Deploys Agile delivery methodologies as well as IT best practice to provide an excellent and efficient service to all stakeholders
• Assists with any upgrades, integrations or configurations of existing reporting solutions ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are communicated with in advance to minimise disruption and maximise usage.
• Collaborates with practice group legal technology teams, legal project managers and the IT team to share best practice, experiences, opportunities and threats as well as to develop solutions that work firm-wide across all practice groups.
• Collaborates with the cyber security team to ensure best practice, especially when sharing technology solutions with clients.
• Collaborates with the Risk and IT teams to ensure that relevant IT and Risk policies are adhered to and that any legal technology matters are compliant with data integrity, security, quality and procurement policies.
• Acts as a point of escalation to support any issues identified that cannot be resolved by the Support Teams and responds to them within a timely fashion, managing communications to those impacted accordingly.

Skills and experience

We are looking for:

• Strong day to day self-management with a focus on service excellence and delivery whilst role modelling exemplary behaviours in line with the firm\'s purpose and values.
• Has a strong technical ability and proficiency with the ability to translate this in to an understandable manner for a variety of audiences to understand.
• Excellent communication skills in a variety of situations and when dealing with a variety of challenging stakeholders.
• Confident and credible in dealing with internal and external stakeholders with the ability to build lasting and strong relationships.
• Innovative and solution oriented with a positive outlook.
• Pragmatic, robust and resourceful, with the ability to adapt quickly to different situations and personalities.
• Follows and adheres to compliance with best practice and firmwide policies.

Experience:

• Hands on experience in data management principles including data integration, modeling, optimisation and data quality.
• Strong experience with various data management architectures like Data Warehouse, Data lake, Data Mart and the supporting processes like Data Integration, Governance and Metadata Management.
• Strong ability to design, build and manage data pipelines for data structures encompassing data transformation, data models, schemas, metadata and workload management.
• Understanding of modern data preparation tools (incl. SSAS / SSIS).
• Knowledge of various development and deployment environments on premises, in the cloud and across multicloud environments.
• Advanced experience with popular database programming languages - SQL, etc.
• Strong experience in building and optimising data pipelines with large and diverse data sets, pipeline architectures and integrating datasets (ETL/ELT).
• Good knowledge of working with popular data discovery, analytics and BI Software tools (such as PowerBI / SSRS)
• Experience in working with data governance and data security teams in moving data pipelines into production with appropriate data quality, governance and security standards and certification.
• Good knowledge of end-to-end Azure Data Factory

What\'s in it for you?

At Eversheds Sutherland, we provide benefits focused on looking after you: your development, your performance, your financial future and your health, as well as providing the opportunity to make a contribution to the world.

• We\'re fair, transparent and equitable
• We share in the success of the firm, reward alignment to our values, going above and beyond and your individual performance
• We support flexible ways of working through our remote working policy and commitment to flexible, agile and hybrid ways of working
• We support your health and performance through our dental, healthcare and wellness support
• We support everything you are and all you bring through our powerful commitment to diversity and inclusion
• We provide a platform for your career, whatever your ambitions through our structured professional and personal training, mentoring and development programs
• We provide experience and opportunity through international and cross-function exposure
• We provide an opportunity to give back through our pro bono work and community engagement
• We help you plan ahead through retirement planning, insurance and assurance

Diversity and inclusion

At Eversheds Sutherland, \xe2\x80\x9cInclusive\xe2\x80\x9d is a core business value. We bring together different skillsets, global mindsets and approaches. We foster diversity of thought and the freedom to put ideas into action. We have an inherent respect for the individual. We have a strong belief in collaboration and teamwork. Sharing ideas, asking questions, solving challenges and meeting our clients\' goals: together.

We want all our people to thrive at work and reach their full potential and we work hard to continue to build a diverse and inclusive culture, monitor and report on our progress and impact, and develop our approach. This is reflected in our policies, systems and processes, and in our work with diversity membership organisations.

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Eversheds Sutherland is the name and brand under which the members of Eversheds Sutherland Limited (Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP and Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP) and their respective controlled, managed and affiliated firms and the members of Eversheds Sutherland (Europe) Limited (each an "Eversheds Sutherland Entity" and together the "Eversheds Sutherland Entities") provide legal or other services to clients around the world. Eversheds Sutherland Entities are constituted and regulated in accordance with relevant local regulatory and legal requirements and operate in accordance with their locally registered names. The use of the name Eversheds Sutherland, is for description purposes only and does not imply that the Eversheds Sutherland Entities are in a partnership or are part of a global LLP. The responsibility for the provision of services to the client is defined in the terms of engagement between the instructed firm and the client.

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