Data Engineer | Learn Kafka Streaming | £71k + 10% Bonus

Data Engineer – Databricks

Location: UK (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

Salary: £71,000 + 10% bonus, 38 days holiday, pension, flexible working, learning and development

Sponsorship: ✅ Available

An industry-leading organisation in the smart home and IoT space is looking for a Data Engineer to help design and scale high-volume, data-intensive platforms. With billions of sensor readings processed every month, this is a unique opportunity to work on truly large-scale, real-time data challenges.

This role offers the chance to work on greenfield projects, influence architecture, and build modern data solutions using cutting-edge technologies.

The Role:

You’ll play a key role in building and optimising scalable data systems in a high-throughput IoT environment.

• Design and build scalable data pipelines from IoT sensors into data platforms
• Work with PySpark and Databricks (Apache Spark) for large-scale data processing
• Support real-time data ingestion using Kafka or similar technologies
• Design efficient, scalable data models for analytics and machine learning
• Improve performance across modern databases and data platforms
• Contribute to best practices across architecture, CI/CD, and deployment

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong experience with PySpark / Apache Spark
• Experience building modern data pipelines (batch or streaming)
• Strong SQL skills and data modelling expertise
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Background working with large-scale or high-volume datasets
• Strong problem-solving skills and engineering mindset

Flexible on tech background:

• Experience with Kafka, streaming, or Databricks is beneficial but not essential
• Open to candidates with strong Snowflake experience who are keen to transition into Databricks
• Also open to engineers looking to develop their experience in streaming technologies

What’s on Offer

• Salary of £71,000 + 10% bonus
• Opportunity to work on high-scale, real-time data systems
• Exposure to modern data tooling and greenfield projects
• Strong learning and development culture
• Visa sponsorship available ( Need to have IoT, Kafka & Streaming experience)

If you would like more information on this get in touch with me, kumbirai.mafini@opusrs.com