Senior Data Engineer - #2183744

MPower Plus


Date: 53 minutes ago
City: Leeds
Contract type: Contractor
MPower Plus

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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