Data Engineer (Birmingham, GB)

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Role Summary

The Data Engineer will be based remotely and ideally you will be located in the UK or Netherlands. This is a global functions role supporting all three of our business lines (Civil, Defence & Engines), the incumbent will have the flexibility to attend one of our sites and flexibility will be required for quarterly National/EU travel to attend internal site visits. The Data Engineer will be part of the BI CoE reporting to the CoE Manager – BI with responsibility for supporting the global BI service and developing data pipelines and BI reports/apps/dashboards using the Microsoft Fabric/ Power BI tooling whilst also assisting during the migration from Qlik Sense and the DWH (based on SQL Server/SSIS). The role is primarily focused on ingesting data (ERPs, SQL Sharepoint etc) into MS Fabric and transforming this into governed data for use in other systems such as Power BI. There will also be a need to develop Power BI apps from time to time and work with the rest of the team to drive adoption of BI through training, data literacy and supporting end users with self-service development.

How You'll Contribute

Lead on business analysis with internal customers to discover and document requirements Data engineering and complex modelling bringing together data from multiple data sources suitable for analytics Develop and test complex BI apps i.e. that involve significant amounts of data transformation Develop data pipelines/data warehousing in Microsoft Fabric and migrate across existing solutions from the current SQL based Data Warehouse Support business users in the development of self-service apps Continuous improvement of the BI service bringing in advanced data science capabilities Routine support of the BI service including incident resolution Analyse and debug incoming data to ensure data is complete and of required quality Contribute to the delivery of processes shared with adjacent CoE’s Adhere to all governance requirements Contribute to ad-hoc requests as needed

What You'll Bring

Essential

Notable data analytics development experience Data engineering and complex data modelling experience (using Fabric/Azure) in bringing together multiple data sources (including ERPs) and tables to create the data model/semantic layers Experience of complex app/DWH development and support using Microsoft Azure/Power BI. Experience of analysing and diagnosing complex data issues and then explain key findings in clear business language to end users Experience of ETL and SSIS development to read in data and apply data profiling and data validation techniques Designing and building the user facing Power BI reports/apps/dashboards including in-depth use of DAX and Power Query Intermediate-to-advanced competency with Excel

Desirable

BSc degree in Computer Science or a related discipline Experience in a manufacturing environment ideally within the aerospace industry Experience of complex app/DWH development and support using Qlik Sense and SQL Server/SSIS Experience of KPI reporting Experience of managing finance concepts and terminology Experience of predictive analytics and machine learning Development using Python/R Experience of developing and supporting BI systems in the Cloud

What We'll Offer

Competitive salary dependent on experience Remote Working with Flexibility to attend site– giving you the opportunity to balance home and office working Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions on a 1 : 1.5 basis Life Assurance 8 x salary 25 days holiday + bank holidays Income protection Shopping discounts Cycle To Work Scheme Employee Assistance Programme A collaborative, dynamic working environment

As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you!

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology. ​ ​