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Boost Talent ltd
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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.

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