Job Description

Location:

Digital, Data and Technology Department, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters, Garstang Road, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 3LH

Salary:

Grade 8, Spinal Column Points 33-37, 42,708 - 46,731

Working Arrangements

:

36.25 hours per week, a flexitime scheme is in operation

Closing Date:

12 noon, 11 July 2025

An opportunity has arisen for a DBA / Data Engineer to join an inclusive and value driven public sector organisation with an outstanding organisational culture. We offer free car parking, a generous pension and generous annual leave.

Are you passionate about data? We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our team, bringing expertise in technologies like SQL databases (on premise & Azure), NoSQL (such as Azure Cosmos DB), Azure Synapse (& Spark / Parquet files) & Power BI / Fabric, with experience in PySpark and Jupyter notebooks highly beneficial.

The role is pivotal to the organisations future data and intelligence aspirations and will be hugely varied, with significant investment in training and personal development to support key areas.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure using SQL (on-prem & Azure), NoSQL (Azure Cosmos DB), Azure Synapse, Spark/Parquet, Power BI, and Fabric.

Manage and evolve data warehouses to support BI and analytics systems.

Develop and optimise data pipelines for data flows and integration, ensuring data quality, accuracy and efficiency.

Build on and add to the current Power BI reports / dashboards.

Collaborate with infrastructure, software development, SharePoint, BI, and reporting teams.

Educate and mentor colleagues on data engineering and SQL concepts.

Ideal Candidate:

Proven data engineering skills.

Strong knowledge of Synapse (or Fabric), SQL, ETL processes, Data Lakes, Parquet, PySpark, Jupyter notebooks, and cloud platforms (i.e. Azure).

Ability to optimise performance and ensure scalability, security, and data quality.

Skilled in cross-system data integration and transformation.

Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Join us and play a key role in shaping our data strategy while working with cutting-edge technologies!

Closing date for applications is 12 noon on 11 July 2025 however we reserve the right to close the advert prior to this if sufficient quality applications have been received.

We anticipate interviews to take place w/c 28 July 2025.

This post is subject to a Standard check with the Disclosure and Barring Service*.

Diversity Matters at Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service - we want to attract the broadest range of people to work with us and the more diverse the workforce, the better able we are to serve our community. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all individuals regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief or age. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.

This post has been advertised internally and externally.

*With effect from 6 July 2023, Fire & Rescue Authorities have been listed in Schedule 1 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions) Order 1975, meaning that all LFRS roles are subject to a Standard Level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as a minimum. Some roles within the Service will be eligible for a higher level check depending on the duties of the role.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 42,708.00-46,731.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Employee discount Employee mentoring programme Enhanced maternity leave Enhanced paternity leave Flexitime Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site gym On-site parking Referral programme Sick pay
Work Location: In person