- ownership of the architecture, design and technical leadership of an enterprise
- helping define best practice whilst remaining hands-on across complex data engin
- Experience within Energy & Utilities, particularly Energy Trading, is ideal
Interim Inside IR35 day-rate contract role:We're recruiting for an experienced
Lead Data Architect / Lead Data Engineer to join a major Energy & Utilities transformation programme. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a modern Azure Databricks platform, leading architecture whilst remaining technically hands-on across enterprise-scale data engineering initiatives. You'll work alongside senior stakeholders, engineering teams and architects to design scalable Lakehouse solutions supporting critical business data. What you'll be doing
- Leading Azure Databricks architecture
- Designing enterprise Lakehouse solutions
- Building scalable Spark and Delta Lake pipelines
- Designing streaming and batch data platforms
- Driving engineering best practice
- Mentoring engineers
- Working closely with senior business stakeholders
- Defining future-state data architecture
Technical Environment
- Azure Databricks
- Apache Spark / PySpark
- Delta Lake
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Data Lake Gen2
- Azure Event Hubs
- Azure Synapse
- Python
- SQL
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Medallion Architecture
We're looking for Expert Databricks experience Strong Azure Data Platform experience Enterprise Data Architecture Hands-on technical capability Leadership experience Excellent stakeholder engagement Previous Energy, Utilities or Energy Trading experience would be highly desirable.
Contract - £600-675 per day
- Inside IR35
- 9-12 months
- Fully remote with occasional London workshops
- UK-based applicants only