We’re 1st Central, a market-leading insurance company utilising smart data and technology at pace. Rapid growth has been based on giving our 1.4 million customers exactly what they want: great value insurance with an excellent service. And that’s the same for our colleagues too; we won Insurance Employer of the Year at the British Insurance Awards 2024 and our Glassdoor score is pretty mega too!

We’re on the lookout for a Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer to help us build the future of data at 1st Central.

You’ll take the lead in shaping and scaling our Azure Data Platform - designing smart, secure, and scalable solutions that power everything from business intelligence to machine learning. You’ll collaborate closely with Data Architects, Principal Engineers and teams across Tech to deliver infrastructure as code using tools like Bicep and Terraform. Whether it’s driving standards, co-authoring low-level designs, optimising performance or keeping our data secure, this is your chance to make a big impact in a forward-thinking, data-led business.

Skills you’ll need to be a great fit for the role:

• Infrastructure as Code Mastery - you’ll be hands-on with Terraform and Bicep, deploying Azure infrastructure like a pro, with automation, templates, and CI/CD pipelines all part of your toolkit.
• Azure Know-How - you’ve got solid experience across Azure services – Synapse, Data Factory, Databricks, DevOps, networking - and you know how to keep things secure, efficient, and cost-effective.
• Great Communicator & Team Collaborator - whether you’re talking to data engineers, security, or stakeholders - you can translate tech talk into human-speak and work together to get things done.
• Creative Problem Solver - you love a good challenge. Troubleshooting, unpicking tricky infrastructure issues, and finding clever solutions - it’s all in a day’s work.

We’re big on flexible working, with offices in Salford Quays, Manchester and Haywards Heath, West Sussex, you'll spend most of your time working from home with occasional visits to the office, but of course, it’s your choice - if you prefer to be in the office more - that's good with us too. If you live a bit further out, we’re open to remote working but you'll need to be based in the UK.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industry: Insurance