💸Salary £40,000 - £50,000 (depending on experience). Up to 15% bonus.
📍Location London – must be be available to visit our London office twice per week.
🧠Interview process: Two rounds. 1: Get to know you chat with the Talent Lead; 2: Technical competency with the Hiring Lead.
🤝Our Values: Advancing, Come as you are, Zero burnout, We all level up together and Transparency
Learn more about us: YouTube, read our Blogs & understand our values!
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Who Are We?
Advancing Analytics are a market leader in delivering pioneering analytical solutions for customers all over the world. To thrive in today's market, businesses need to implement AI built on a solid, reliable Data Platform, and we are looking for you to help us build it!
We are looking for a technical generalist who enjoys helping non-engineers build things that work. You're comfortable moving between low-code platforms, Python scripting, integrations and debugging, and you see the job as unblocking people rather than gatekeeping the stack. Breadth across the Microsoft and wider SaaS estate matters more than deep specialisation in any one area, but you're willing to go wandering into the weeds when a problem calls for it - tracing integrations, reading logs, writing the script that solves the issue rather than the ticket that describes it. You can explain what's gone wrong in language a business user will understand.
You're pragmatic about documentation and registry discipline. When a consultant builds an internal tool or a client-facing prototype, you're the person who reviews it, helps harden it where it matters, and makes sure it's registered, documented and supportable once it starts to see real use. You understand that business-built tools are going to happen either way - your job is to make sure they're built safely and maintained consistently.
Act as the first point of technical support for business users building their own applications - reviewing configurations, advising on architecture and tooling choices, and helping resolve issues without creating delivery bottlenecks
Carry out diagnostic and debugging activities across bespoke applications and business-built tools when complexity outstrips what the business user can resolve themselves
Ensure all business-built applications meet organisational standards for security, resiliency, supportability and data handling, within the guardrails defined by the Business Systems Owner
Register every business-built application in the systems catalogue with documentation sufficient for handover, continuity and future supportability
Provide hands-on technical input when new tools or platforms are evaluated, assessing integration, security and operational fit
Maintain and improve shared templates, reference implementations and reusable components that make it faster for the business to build safely
Contribute to joiner, mover and leaver processes across business systems, ensuring digital footprints are correctly managed
Hands-on technical generalist across M365, Power Platform and SaaS administration
Experience supporting business-built, low-code or citizen-developer applications in a corporate environment
Comfortable reading, reviewing and lightly editing code and configuration written by others, including AI-assisted output
Good documentation discipline - you leave things better documented than you found them
Debugging mindset - willing to dig into logs, code and integrations to isolate root causes rather than treat symptoms
Strong communication skills with non-technical users - patient, clear, and able to translate between business and technical framing
Comfortable operating within defined frameworks, and confident raising concerns when those frameworks start to constrain the work
Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, Teams, Exchange)
Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI)
Entra / Azure AD fundamentals
Python as a working skillset - scripting, light automation, data wrangling and API integration
PowerShell for M365, Entra and wider Microsoft estate administration
Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools and low-code integration platforms (e.g. Replit, Zapier) is a plus
As a consultancy with strong partnerships across Microsoft, Databricks, AWS, Sigma, Tabular Editor and dbt Labs, you’ll get hands-on access to some of the most exciting technology and learning opportunities in the industry. We know this market moves quickly, so we invest in our people for the long term, giving you the space to build real expertise, keep developing, and stay ahead of what’s next.
We’re also genuinely active in the wider data and AI community. That means speaking at events, sponsoring major industry moments like Big Data London, and showing up at some of the biggest stages in the space, including Databricks Data+AI Summit, Data+AI World Tour, and the Global AI AgentCon London.
We encourage our team to get involved in the community, whether that’s in the form of a personal blog or an initiative you are passionate about advocating, we will support you!
Aside from offering a competitive salary, we have a great set of benefits and perks including, but not limited to:
Industry matching Maternity & Paternity policy 🐣
Private Medical & Dental Care plus Eye care scheme 👁️
Health & Well-being supplement 🩺
25 Days Annual Leave, Birthday Leave & Charity Leave 🌴
Away days with the team 🚃
Flexible Working Hours
Electric Car Scheme 🚗
🚀 Advancing – Being part of a team that drives innovation and pushing boundaries of what’s possible. Our work redefines industry standards and challenges the status quo in the data world every day.
❤️ Come as you are – we are an inclusive company. When you work with us, rest assured you're working in a safe environment.
❌ Zero burnout – We have seen it happen, and we never want to be a company that pushes our staff to breaking point.
⬆️ We all level up together – we have each seen the benefit that being part of a community can have, it is transformational.
💡 Transparency – We are big believers that there are no secrets in Advancing Analytics, and we try to live this day to day.
You can read about our values in more detail here - https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/values
Equal opportunities for everyone
At Advancing Analytics both diversity and inclusion are a priority. We are all committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer; all applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity or disability status.
This role profile is intended to provide an overview of the responsibilities and qualifications required for the Business Application Engineer role. It is not an exhaustive list and may be subject to change to meet the needs of the organisation.
Advancing Analytics is a multi-award-winning data consultancy specialising in modern, scalable Data and AI platforms. Founded in 2018, we have grown into a team of specialists delivering across the UK, US and EMEA, combining strong architecture with real-world delivery.
Our Databricks partnership sits at the heart of what we do. As a Databricks Elite consulting partner, we bring proven engineering standards across the Lakehouse, machine learning and Generative AI. We are home to two Databricks MVPs and over 70 Databricks certified engineers, including 11 Databricks Partner Champions. Clients choose us for dependable delivery and teams that are easy to work with.
Our partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, Sigma and Tabular Editor underpin how we design and build secure, governed Data & AI.
As a recognised Microsoft partner, we hold three Advanced Specialisations in Analytics, AI and Machine Learning, and Build and Modernise AI Apps - and we are home to six Microsoft MVPs. Most of our work with Microsoft involves Azure Databricks, and we also compliment that with our expertise on Microsoft's AI Foundry platform, focusing on safe adoption and measurable outcomes - as well as supporting our clients who are using Power BI or other parts of the Microsoft Fabric platform to integrate with Databricks. The strength of our partnership with Microsoft gives us access to the product team to provide feedback on their Data & AI Platform - and crucially for our clients gives access to exclusive funding programmes to support POCs and implementations on the Azure platform.
We focus on outcomes, not hype. We train your teams, co-deliver, and leave robust solutions that perform. Our community presence reflects our values, from our YouTube channel to local tech meetups across the UK and regular speaking slots at international Data and AI conferences.
If you want a partner who blends strategic thought with hands-on excellence and keeps things straightforward, we are here to help.
