Senior Data Engineer

Senior 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.

You'll play a pivotal role in designing and building scalable data platforms on AWS, supporting everything from cloud migrations and Salesforce integrations to AI-ready data pipelines and petabyte-scale projects.

• 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.

• 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

• £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.