Data Partner

The Digital & IT division supports the Ayvens business by providing effective and efficient technology capabilities that allow us to operate in a flexible, secure and sustainable way. We work with the business to understand the needs of our employees, customers and wider stakeholders to ensure we meet their current needs and enable their strategic objectives. 

Key Purpose

The Data Partner role is a pivotal position within the Data Office as a senior technical individual contributor, responsible for designing & delivering modern data and analytics solutions. This role combines deep data engineering expertise and stakeholder engagement. The successful candidate will work directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements but will be expected to remain hands-on, designing and delivering data solutions.

Ayvens UK is at a critical stage in its estate rationalisation and integration journey. The successful candidate will play a key role in accelerating the adoption of Power BI across the organisation. They will also help drive the implementation of a secure, scalable modern platform based on Azure and Databricks.

Responsibilities

• Building Data models and Data pipelines on the Azure platform and creation of Power BI semantic models
• Defining enterprise and domain-level data models, ensuring consistency, accuracy, scalability, and alignment with business requirements.
• Providing hands-on technical leadership for the Finance and Credit Risk data domains while driving strong collaboration between business, data, and architecture teams.

Skills, Experience & Background

• You will have significant experience as a Senior/Lead Data Engineer.
• Build experience including data modelling, extraction and reporting.
• Proven experience delivering Azure and Power BI solutions. Databricks knowledge a plus.
• You have key experience with being a role-model within a data team and the wider organisation, actively engaging and inspiring through collaboration with other teams, departments, divisions and entities where required to drive business success and people engagement.
• Mastery in providing clear, concise and relevant advice and summarisation of projects.
• Financial services, banking, leasing or credit risk experience.
• Previous experience with SAPBW would be desirable but not essential

What we offer

Rewards & Financial Benefits

Generous contributory pension scheme, Annual salary review and bonus scheme,

EV company car, Give As You Earn (GAYE) scheme, Employee referral scheme (£1,000)

Retail discounts programme, GymFlex membership options, Cycle to Work scheme

Health & Wellbeing

Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Health assessment options, Travel insurance, Dental insurance, Critical illness cover, Personal accident insurance

Time Off & Work–Life Balance

25 days’ annual leave + an additional Celebration Day, 37.5 hour week, Monday to Friday, no weekends, Holiday buy & sell scheme, Volunteer days, Time allocated for personal development, Study support (where applicable).

Workplace & On‑Site Facilities

EV charging points, Bike storage & shower facilities, Complimentary breakfast, Staff and social events

Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for an opportunity unless they exactly meet the criteria specified. At Ayvens we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, enjoyable and authentic workplace so if you are excited by this, or any role at Ayvens but your experience or current hours don’t exactly align, we would encourage you to apply regardless! What’s the worst that can happen?!