Senior Data Engineer

🚀 Senior Data Engineer

📍 London | Hybrid

💼 6–10+ Years Experience

Rate: £350 PD outside IR35

6 months

I’m currently working with a client who is looking to hire a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in the technical design and delivery of a modern enterprise data platform.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role suited to someone who enjoys building scalable data solutions while also setting engineering standards, mentoring teams, and driving best practices across the platform.

🔹 What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design and build scalable ingestion, transformation, and serving pipelines

• Develop data models aligned to business domains across a Lakehouse environment

• Work across medallion architecture patterns including Bronze, Silver & Gold layers

• Implement SCD Type 2 and advanced data modelling techniques

• Build production-grade solutions using Databricks, Delta Live Tables, Delta Lake & Unity Catalog

• Drive data quality, testing, governance, and platform reliability

• Lead code reviews, engineering standards, and technical mentorship within the squad

• Optimise platform performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

🔹 Key Skills & Experience:

✔️ 6–10+ years in Data Engineering with technical leadership exposure

✔️ Strong SQL and large-scale ETL/ELT pipeline development experience

✔️ Deep hands-on Databricks expertise (Autoloader, DLT, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog)

✔️ Strong experience with Lakehouse and Medallion Architecture patterns

✔️ Solid understanding of dimensional modelling, SCD handling, and canonical data models

✔️ Experience working with governed or regulated data environments

✔️ Strong stakeholder communication and mentoring capability

💡 This role would suit someone who enjoys being both hands-on technically and influential in shaping engineering standards, architecture, and delivery practices across a growing data function.

📩 If you’d be interested in hearing more, feel free to reach out directly.