Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Leeds, 2x per week
Salary: Up to £80,000 per annum

Why Apply?
This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Senior Data Engineer delivering scalable, high quality data solutions for a leading client in the technology sector. This position offers professional growth, challenging projects, and access to cutting edge cloud data technologies.

Senior Data Engineer Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimise robust, scalable data pipelines and architectures to support business intelligence and analytics initiatives.
• Manage and maintain cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) including data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse solutions.
• Transform and process structured and unstructured data using modern ETL/ELT frameworks (Apache Spark, Airflow, dbt).
• Collaborate closely with product managers, analysts, and software developers to ensure seamless integration and high-quality data availability.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance reporting and analytics capabilities through tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, or QuickSight.
• Apply best practices in data governance, data quality, and performance optimisation.
• Operate in an agile environment, contributing to technical discussions and problem-solving initiatives.

Senior Data Engineer Requirements:

• Proven experience in building and managing cloud-based data platforms (AWS Redshift/Glue, Azure Data Factory/Synapse, Google BigQuery/Dataflow).
• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and Java for data engineering tasks.
• Experience designing reliable, maintainable, and high-performance data pipelines and architectures.
• Broad understanding of data warehousing, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures.
• Familiarity with business intelligence and data visualisation tools.
• Excellent analytical thinking, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable with complexity, ambiguity, and working independently or as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.