Data Engineer

📢 Perch Group are searching for a Data Engineer.

Established in 2016, Perch Group have rapidly grown to become one of the UK’s foremost debt collection groups, overseeing the financial well-being of over a million customers and assets exceeding £1 billion.

Our annual mission is to empower hundreds of thousands of customers to positively engage with and resolve their outstanding debts. We do this through an empathetic and customer-centric approach that is at the heart of our success.

Perch’s comprehensive platforms offer clients a one-stop shop of market-leading, data-driven services spanning the entire debt lifecycle, including BPO services, debt collection, debt purchase, reconnection, and litigation services.

The Role

The Technical Delivery team are currently transitioning from hosted SQL server to the cloud (Azure) and looking Data Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis. The Data Engineer will be tasked with providing technical solutions to business problems. The ideal candidate will have good knowledge with of traditional Data Engineering capabilities, such as execution of stored produced (T-SQL), data reporting (SSRS), development of database design and creation and be able to move over to new technology stack in Microsoft Azure (data factory, Power BI and pipelines).

💵 £30,000 + up to 20% of your annual salary, paid as a bonus

📍 This role is based at our Blackpool office with hybrid working options.

Candidates able to work in Manchester and Skipton offices can be considered with regular travel to the Blackpool office.

You'll make a major contribution by...

• Using best practice in the creation and management of data in the companies data bases. They will follow and guide best practice
• Being responsible for creating or guiding the low-level design of data solutions, taking high level solutions, and translating them into workable designs and work packages to deliver themselves or in other members of the team.
• Monitoring the quality of the overall data platform(s), ensuring that data ETL and database solutions are implemented effectively from a re-use and performance optimisation perspective.
• Developing high complexity, secure, governed, high quality, efficient data ETL from a variety of on and off premise, internal and external data sources.
• Designing and building of data observability and data quality by design into all Data ETL, promoting self-testing pipelines that proactively identify processing issues or discrepancies.

You should apply for this role if you have...

• One/two years designing and deploying business data ETL packages and designing data based systems
• Strong T-SQL and traditional MS-Stack technical skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong data quality and governance skills
• Strong teamwork, interpersonal and collaboration skills with colleagues and clients.
• Experience with Unit and Integration testing

Preferred experience...

• Data Lake - Delta Lake design pattern implementation experience in Azure Data Lake Gen2 with file hierarchy namespace and low level permissions management.
• Azure Active Directory - for Managed identities creation and usage or for generating service principles for authentication and authorization
• Version Control - Experience in building Data Ops i.e., CICD pipelines in Azure DevOps with managed identity.

⌛️ The Application Timeline

• A first stage video call with the internal recruitment team (15 minute call)
• An introductory phone call with the hiring manager (15 minute call)
• A face to face or video call with the hiring manager (45 minutes- 60 minutes)

What’s In It For You

• £30,000 + up to 20% of your annual salary, paid as a bonus.
• This role is based at our Blackpool office.
• 37.5 hours per week. We offer flexible working hours between our core hours of 8am- 6pm, Monday to Friday.
• The opportunity to complete formal qualifications and learn on the job in a successful, growing organisation.
• And many more benefits to support your wellbeing and professional development.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

Closing date: 8th August 2025.

Typically, the average successful applicant will be within this timeline for 2-3 weeks. Please note we will close this role once we have enough applications for the next stages therefore you should submit your application asap to avoid any disappointment.

If you do not receive a response after 3 weeks of applying, please assume you have been unsuccessful as we may experience a high volume of applications.

If you have any questions or suggestions of how we can assist you in your application due to disability or personal reasons, please email [email protected].

At Perch, our strength lies in our team, their enthusiasm, and their passion for the business. Whether you’re looking to gain foundational skills in financial services, have a knack for customer service, or seek to expand your horizons, we likely have the perfect opportunity for you.

PLEASE NOTE - As we are financial services company, we are required to run DBS and Credit Checks on all of our successful candidates. This information MUST be disclosed at the time of your initial screening call should you be invited to interview.