Senior azure data warehouse developer (Security specialist) - Hybrid
Salary: Circa £55,000 per annum negotiable depending on experience + fantastic benefits!
Jisc Grade: TDA3 (internal use only)
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: 2-year FTC
Reports into: People manager
Location: Hybrid - A blend of working from home and your nominated hub office, we have hubs in London, Bristol, Manchester and Oxford. Specific patterns for working in the office are not mandated, and the frequency of time worked in the office is agreed with your manager. Meeting in person is something we value so you may need to travel on occasion to any of our hub offices.
About Jisc:
Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a big ambition to improve lives through education and research by providing hardware, software, and networking solutions. Our talented people bring their own unique skills and experience to empower our members and customers with the technology they need to succeed. Take your next career step with us and you can make a real difference to the education and research sectors.
About the team:
The role sits within the Data Collection and Statistics Directorate and will be part of the smaller but versatile data warehouse team involving many aspects of data life cycle and interactions with the business unit but with a specific emphasis on data security management.
About the opportunity:
This is an exciting opportunity to work on the HESA Security Architecture project, also known as Project Vulcan. This project aims to review the current architecture and security controls to ensure the implementation of appropriate security measures to protect, detect, and respond to any security incidents affecting any part of the architecture, web services and including database security and integrity.
What you’ll be doing:
You will be working with other data warehouse developers, taking responsibility for reviewing and implementing solutions in light of any key decisions made from the project and its deliverables. You will be liaising with the Jisc business security team to ensure their needs are met as well as working with internal teams to test any security controls implemented to protect the services.
You will need experience and a comprehensive understanding of data warehouse analysis and azure environments with knowledge of data warehouse methodologies and data modelling. Extensive and demonstrable experience of data security & protocols will also be key.
Additional responsibilities will include:
- Reviewing of the overarching Azure architecture using zero trust architecture in database and security first methodologies.
- Review and recommend perimeter and database security controls to protect, detect and respond to security and database issues.
- Reviewing access permissions applied to logical database servers in Azure which host critical Azure SQL Server instances and data sets.
- Assessing where data content should be deleted or moved into a higher security archive location with strong protection assigned to these.
Key Skills and Experience:
- Experience of data warehouse architecture review activity.
- Experience of working with Azure, Cloud and Data Warehouse factory
- Understanding of Microsoft Active Directory Optimisation of performance within a secure environment
- Strong understanding of relational database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
- Ability to analyse project requirements into technical solutions according to specifications.
- Good analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
Don’t meet every single requirement?
We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box, so we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements, but you feel this role is perfect for you. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
Why work for us?
At Jisc, everyone plays a key role and gets the chance to feel part of it, that to us is the definition of a meaningful career. We want to create a culture of lifelong learning. You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors.
We believe a balance between your personal and professional life is essential to your happiness and fulfilment. We work flexibly at Jisc and focus on outputs rather than presenteeism and are open to a whole range of ways of working.
It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. Our hybrid working policy is flexible, and the frequency of time spent in your nominated office will vary across teams and job roles.
Take a look at our fantastic benefits! We offer:
- Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
- 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes an additional three closure days over Christmas plus the opportunity to buy up to an additional 5 days
- Generous flexible pension schemes
- Protection benefit – life cover
- Annual Jisc performance award
- A range of wellbeing lifestyle benefits including company paid health care cash plan, employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders and support
- A generous budget to support you with external learning and continuous professional development
- Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
- Financial well-being support including access to preferential loan and savings plans, mortgage advice, will writing tools and support and resources to help you make the most of your money
- The opportunity to donate to charity tax-free with our Payroll Giving benefit
- Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech – spreading the cost of your everyday white goods and technology
- A wide range of discounts from retailers and big-name high-street stores and CSSC membership
- Family friendly policies including enhanced parental, maternity and paternity leave and opportunity for career breaks
- Support your volunteering with up to 3 days volunteer leave
- Cycle to work scheme and eye care scheme including free eye test vouchers and £70 towards new glasses for VDU use
- Free flu vaccinations
- Employee recognition awards and travel loans
- A company culture which supports and promotes personal learning and development, including access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning
Equity, diversity and inclusion:
At Jisc, we don’t look for ‘sameness’, but to truly include people who can add unique perspectives and experiences to our culture, and we are working hard to achieve progressive change. ‘Always inclusive’ is one of our six guiding principles which actively encourages us to bring our whole authentic selves to work. We believe that our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion is fundamental to our success.
Jisc believes our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive culture that welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We work with passionate colleagues to strengthen knowledge and awareness, provide learning and development opportunities, and foster multiple employee networks which create a sense of community and influence our policies and practice.
We work hard to create an equitable experience for our candidates and workforce which embraces all aspects of their identity including race and ethnicity, religion and belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, trans identities, age, class, disability, neurodivergence, or veteran status.
Application process:
We want you to showcase your talent throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know how we can best support you to do that; for example, if there are any reasonable adjustments we may be able to put in place. We will be happy to help you.
Just so you know, we review CVs as soon as we can and aim to provide an update on your application within 4 weeks of receiving it. However, you may hear from us a lot sooner, so please keep an eye out for our emails or calls!
If you are currently a Jisc employee, please apply through your Dayforce Employee profile.
Jisc has an active sponsor licence to recruit on a Skilled worker visa basis. Candidates wishing to apply who require sponsorship should determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the role by assessing their circumstances against the relevant Home Office criteria. Jisc does not offer any financial re-imbursement towards the applicant costs, such as re-location, skilled worker visa and dependant costs or the immigration health charge.
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- Pay Type Salary