SQL Engineer (Data Governance), 12 Month Fixed-Term-Contract, London, UK (hybrid-remote based)

The role

We have an exciting opportunity for proficient SQL coder to join our data team as a SQL Engineer (Data Governance) on a 12 month FTC basis, working also on a flexible remote-hybrid basis between your home and our London office.

The SQL Engineer (Data Governance) role provides a vital role in ensuring that the organisation maintains control over data processing and storage.

Working within the Chief Data Officer’s data team the SQL Engineer role will work with a range of stakeholders across the business, to ensure robust data governance practices are maintained.

In this data driven and heavily regulated organisation, this SQL Engineer job ensures that the organisation can maintain compliance with regulatory requirements relating to data, reduces data risks, and drives value through raising quality of data assets.

Team Hybrid Working Style

We are very proud to offer one of the most flexible hybrid working arrangements in the industry! The expectation for this role, will involve a minimum of one day each month - working out of our London Bridge office.

Key Accountabilities Include

- Performing data governance audits, to identify and assess gaps to existing policies and standards.

- Tracking data governance issues, resolutions, and consistently publish their status to stakeholders.

- Understanding data lineage and work with Data Owners to document metadata, controls, and business definitions.

- Automate processes to extract/load metadata to reporting platforms.

- Supporting the Information Security team to develop systems which report access to databases/other data access.

- Ensuring and developing monitoring systems to ensure audit trail and alerting for breaches of policy within access and manipulation of data.

- Identifying and resolve any gaps in implementation of data retention policies.

- Support and provide analysis of regular role review processes to ensure access to data is appropriate.

- Work with stakeholder to use tooling to restrict access to data to least privilege requirements.

- Support maintenance and audit activity relating to regulatory requirements for data management.

- Developing excellent working relationships across Decision Science, Information Security, DPO, DBA, and other business stakeholders to build data governance and resolve data questions/ issues.

You'll Need to Have

Essential:

- Experience of developing SQL code.

- Strong understanding of relational database systems.

- Ability to analyse systems and code, to understand data lineage through systems.

- Understanding of systems to control access to systems (e.g., active directory, SQL permissions/roles).

- Some experience of data analysis and data mapping.

- Excellent written & verbal communication skills.

- Ability to deliver in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities.

- Effective team working.

Desirable:

- Financial Services experience

- Consumer and commercial banking background

- Payment schemes and processing.

- Microsoft SQL Server and analytical stack.

In Return You'll Enjoy

· Competitive basic salary

· Additional benefit allowance representing 7.5% of your annual salary allowing you the flexibility to decide your own benefits (or simply absorb this into your monthly income).

· 26 days’ holiday increasing each year of service to 33 days

· Ability to buy and sell a further 5 days holiday each year

· 4 x Life Assurance

· Pension salary sacrifice

· LinkedIn Learning license option

· Family friendly policies

· Regular social activities and team events

· Charity Volunteering Day

· Free drinks and snacks in the office

Cashplus is an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.