Data Consultant

**Data Consultant**

**Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits**

**Where the job is based**: home-based, working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ

**Who we are**:
Kerv Digital (previously known as cloudThing) solve complicated problems with great digital experiences. We combine Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data Science and Software Engineering to achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients. Headquartered in Birmingham and part of Kerv, we are part of a £50m revenue global organisation, with over 450 employees, working with over 800 sector-leading clients, with offices in London, Birmingham, and Bangalore.

Kerv is an ethically led organisation, and we are proud of our values. Our mission to Build Future and make a positive difference in society helps guide us to choose to work primarily with Nonprofit and Public Sector organisations. We encourage all our developers and designers to embrace the latest technologies, frameworks, and cloud deployment platforms to help our clients achieve more. We relish the difficult problems and integration challenges and guarantee our developers are never bored.

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India. We can offer you an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere to develop your skills as part of a global multi-discipline development team with opportunities to be mentored by forward-thinking architects.

Join us today to work closely with household name clients, build your technical prowess, and make new friends along the way.

**Who we are looking for**:
Here are some fundamental requirements we look for in our Data Consultants:

- Good communication skills and an engaging personality because you will be working closely with our clients.
- Demonstration of strong project stakeholder engagement throughout the entire delivery lifecycle (from presales, discovery through to go live)
- Capability to create, implement, and maintain complex data engineering solutions for data acquisition and preparation.
- Performing complex data quality checking and remediation.
- Providing specialist expertise in the design characteristics of database management systems or data warehouse products/services.
- Strong experience in creating data models and diagrams to represent and communicate data requirements and data assets.
- Able to develop and maintain specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software and facilities.
- Good understanding of Azure services, particularly Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, CosmosDB.
- Microsoft Azure Certifications such as DP-203.

**In addition to the above required skills, we are looking for a consultant with the following skills**:

- Awareness of Microsoft Common Data Model and Dataverse.
- Experience of managing priorities on multiple project workstreams and delivering to short timescales.
- Python coding skills.

**We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;**
- happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
- an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things
- ability to work effectively with remote teams in India

**What we can do for you**:
We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employee’s:
**Real Flexibility** - we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our unicorns (that’s this team) seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.

**Awesome Environment **- all of our employee’s will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on - that’s in large part because we’re privately owned by those that work day-to-day in the business, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.

**Interesting Work** - these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.

**Great Benefits** - all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclos