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Oliver James
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Sr Data Engineer - £65,000-£70,000 + Excellent Benefits

Location: Leeds (Hybrid, 2 days on-site)

Are you ready to take on large-scale data engineering challenges within a business that’s investing heavily in cloud transformation, AI, and advanced analytics?

This is a unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing, tech-driven organisation that’s modernising its entire data landscape and gearing up for a massive change and innovation portfolio in 2026.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Designing and developing modern data architectures to support advanced analytics and automation.
  • Leading end-to-end data migration projects from on-prem SQL Server to AWS cloud environments.
  • Building and optimising data pipelines using Python, Lambda, and SQL, ensuring performance, quality, and scalability.
  • Collaborating across DevOps, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver cloud-first solutions.
  • Supporting the introduction of streaming and real-time data processing alongside traditional batch systems.
  • Mentoring junior engineers and sharing best practices to strengthen data engineering capability.

Tech Stack & Environment

  • AWS ecosystem: Redshift, S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudFormation
  • Core tools: Python, SQL, DBT, Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD
  • Data warehousing: 600TB+ environment with expansion into Databricks
  • BI & analytics: Power BI, Tableau, and AI platforms
  • 100% cloud-centric and 100% Microsoft-integrated environment

What’s In It For You

  • £65,000-£70,000 base salary
  • 12-15% pension contribution
  • 8-10% annual bonus (paid consistently over the last 3 years)
  • Private healthcare, cash plans, EV and cycle-to-work schemes
  • Home office equipment allowance
  • Genuine opportunity to work on cutting-edge data and AI transformation projects

This is more than a data engineering role – it’s your chance to help build the future data platform of a company at the forefront of technology and growth.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.


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