Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer

Location:UK-wide (hybrid, with occasional in-office meetings)

Salary:£75,000 (flexible depending on experience)

Hours:35 hours per week

Employment Type:Full-time, Permanent

We’re working with a forward-thinking organisation embarking on agreenfield data transformation project. They’re looking for aSenior Data Engineer(with a strong analytics engineering background) to take ownership of a new initiative focused on building scalable, self-serve data solutions across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robustdata transformation pipelines
• Drive aself-serve data culturethrough training, enablement, and best practices
• Leadstakeholder engagementto align data definitions across teams
• Own and shape the direction of the project with significant autonomy
• Coach junior team members and foster a culture of knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with architecture teams on platform design decisions
• Promote automation, efficiency, and strong data governance across the engineering function

Technical Skills & Experience

• Strong background indata transformation projects
• SQLandPythonfor scripting and analytics
• Airflow(or equivalent workflow orchestration tools)
• Power BI, and optionallyPlotly/Dashfor data visualisation
• Strong experience withAWSor equivalent
• SparkorKafka(experience with one or the other expected)
• Proficiency indata modelling techniquessuch as Star or Snowflake schema
• Experience designing and deployingtransformation pipelinesin production
• Passion fordata quality, including implementing API checks and robust validation logic
• Exposure toautomation scriptingin Python to streamline workflows

You’ll be someone who is passionate about data, loves solving complex problems, and enjoys mentoring others. You’ll bring a product-focused mindset and thrive in environments where you can lead initiatives and work across teams to define what "good" looks like in data engineering.