Lead Data Engineer

Peaple Talent has partnered with a global digital engineering consultancy who are recruiting for a Lead Data Engineer on a permanent basis based out of their Sunderland office. You will have a great understanding of technology consultancy services along with fantastic communication and stakeholder engagement skills as this role will be client facing.

Skills and experience:

• Proven experience as a Lead Data Engineer with a focus on Azure cloud services.
• Experience of managing small teams whilst also being hands-on.
• Strong database fundamentals including SQL/TSQL, performance and schema design.
• Experience architecting and building data applications using Azure, specifically a Data Warehouse and/or Data Lake.

Technologies:

• Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks and Power BI. Experience with creating low-level designs for data platform implementations.
• ETL pipeline development for the integration with data sources and data transformations including the creation of supplementary documentation.
• Proficiency in working with APIs and integrating them into data pipelines.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Experience of data wrangling such as cleansing, quality enforcement and curation e.g. using Azure Synapse notebooks, Databricks, etc.
• Experience of data modelling to describe the data landscape, entities and relationships.
• Experience with data migration from legacy systems to the cloud.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) particularly with Terraform.
• Proficient in the development of Power BI dashboards.
• Strong focus on documentation and diagramming (e.g. ERDs).
• Strong communication and teamwork skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams effectively.

It would be great if you have:

• Azure Data Fundamentals DP-900 certification.
• Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 certification.
• Good knowledge of data governance, data quality, security, metadata cataloguing and Master Data Management.
• Machine Learning and AI development experience

Benefits:

• Up to 10% bonus (based on company and personal performance).
• An employer pension scheme
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays, with the option to carry forward or 'cash-in' 5 days each year
• Life Insurance & Income protection
• Enhanced Maternity Pay & Paternity Pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Travel loan scheme
• A Tech Scheme which lets you choose from over 5000 tech products at up to a 12% discount
• Free unlimited Udemy account for every employee to support their continuous learning and improvement