Senior Data Engineer - #2183744
MPower Plus
Date: 53 minutes ago
City: Leeds
Contract type: Contractor
Lead Data Engineer – Data Transformation & Consumption
A senior data engineering leader capable of driving data modernization, transformation, governance and analytics consumption initiatives while leading teams and delivering scalable cloud-native data platforms.
- Build and manage scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Develop batch and real-time data processing solutions using modern cloud and big data technologies.
- Design and implement data models, data marts, and analytics-ready datasets for reporting, BI, AI, and ML use cases.
- Drive cloud data engineering initiatives across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
- Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, security, and compliance across the data ecosystem.
- Collaborate with Business, Data Architects, Data Scientists, and BI teams to deliver business value through data products.
- Lead modernization of legacy data warehouses and support data lakehouse architectures and platform transformations.
- Establish engineering best practices, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation standards.
- Mentor and lead Data Engineers while conducting architecture reviews and technical governance.
- Optimize platform performance, scalability, reliability, and cloud costs.
Key Must-Have Skills
- SQL and Python/PySpark: build and troubleshoot production ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Cloud data engineering: deliver reliable data platforms on AWS, Azure or GCP; deep expertise in one is sufficient.
- Data modelling and quality: create trusted, secure datasets for reporting and analytics.
- Technical leadership: guide architecture, review code, mentor engineers and explain decisions to business teams.
Core Technical Skills
- SQL, Python, PySpark, Spark
- Data Modeling (Star Schema, Snowflake, Data Vault)
- Airflow, DataStage, Informatica, Talend, DBT
- BigQuery, Snowflake, Synapse, Redshift
- Kafka, Pub/Sub, Event Hub
- Git, CI/CD, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
Preferred Skills
- Data Lakehouse (Databricks, Delta Lake)
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Data Mesh/Data Product Architecture
- AI/ML & GenAI Data Platforms
- BFSI, Insurance, Retail, or Healthcare domain experience.
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