Internal Audit - Data Engineering - Associate - Birmingham

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom; office-based role

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm founded in 1869, with offices worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, build, test and support production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines for Internal Audit.
• Develop maintainable Python solutions using Pandas, Polars and PySpark.
• Write advanced SQL for transformation, reconciliation, profiling and analysis across operational and analytical platforms.
• Design dimensional models, lakehouse and data-lake patterns, and data products for operational and analytical use cases.
• Implement data-quality checks, controls, lineage, observability, documentation and automated tests.
• Partner with audit teams and data owners to resolve discrepancies and deliver reusable, governed data solutions.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in data engineering, software engineering or data platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering or a related quantitative discipline.
• Hands-on Python proficiency, including Pandas, Polars and PySpark, with experience writing testable and maintainable code.
• Strong SQL skills and practical knowledge of OLTP databases, relational design, query performance, data warehousing and dimensional modelling.
• Experience designing and implementing ETL/ELT pipelines and working with data lakes, lakehouses or cloud data.
• Strong data analytics, problem-solving, written communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Snowflake and data integration from DB2, PostgreSQL or comparable enterprise platforms.
• Exposure to Spark-based processing, orchestration frameworks, CI/CD, containers and cloud data services.
• Familiarity with semantic layers, metadata management and governed, AI-ready data products.
• Understanding of data governance, privacy, security, lineage and retention expectations.
• Experience in financial services, audit, risk or controls.

Culture & Benefits

• Professional office environment.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity.
• Opportunities for professional and personal growth.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the recruiting process for candidates with special needs or disabilities.