Senior Data Engineer, Azure
Senior Data Engineer, Azure
London (Hybrid)
£90,000 + bonus + excellent benefits
Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Python, SQL
Senior Data Engineer is required to join a leading London-based insurance organisation with offices in the heart of the city. Working within a high-impact, specialist data team this role will see you building and evolving a modern Azure-based Data Lakehouse, supporting underwriting insight, analytics and decision-making at scale.
You will work closely with senior business stakeholders, regional data teams and IT, combining hands-on engineering with input into solution design, standards and best practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineer and enhance enterprise-wide data platforms, with a core focus on the Group Data Lakehouse
- Design, build, test and deploy scalable data pipelines and data products
- Ensure strong governance across data quality, security, change control and documentation
- Collaborate with regional data teams to maintain consistent data models and standards
- Support underwriting analytics and reporting teams to ensure data accuracy and usability
- Work alongside data science teams to productionise machine learning pipelines
- Contribute to DevOps and CI/CD practices within an agile delivery model
- Act as a trusted technical partner, advising on data engineering best practice and solution design
Skills & Experience
- Strong background in data engineering within a Lakehouse or modern data platform environment
- Proven experience building ELT pipelines and integrating complex data sources
- Hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Storage and Azure DevOps
- Advanced Python and SQL skills
- Experience designing data models (including star schema) for Power BI or similar reporting tools
- Experience within insurance, MGA or financial services environments is highly desirable
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work confidently across technical and non-technical teams
For a full consultation on this pivotal role, send your CV to ARC IT Recruitment today.