Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer & Data Platform Lead to drive the design, development and evolution of a modern enterprise data platform built on Databricks and Microsoft Fabric.
This is a high-impact opportunity for a senior technical professional who enjoys combining hands-on engineering with platform leadership, architecture and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
Data Platform Leadership
- Define and drive enterprise data platform architecture and technology standards
- Lead adoption of best practices across engineering, governance and operational excellence
- Partner with business stakeholders to deliver scalable and strategic data solutions
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams
Data Engineering & Integration
- Design and develop scalable data pipelines supporting batch, CDC, incremental and streaming workloads
- Integrate data from POS, ERP, cloud platforms, APIs and enterprise applications
- Build robust ingestion, transformation and data distribution frameworks
- Drive platform performance, scalability and reliability
Data Modelling & Analytics
- Design dimensional data models including star and snowflake schemas
- Develop reusable data products supporting reporting, analytics and self-service BI
- Ensure alignment between business processes and enterprise analytics requirements
Governance & Performance
- Implement data quality, lineage, monitoring and testing frameworks
- Optimize Spark workloads, SQL performance and platform efficiency
- Support DevOps, CI/CD and release management practices
- Drive metadata management and governance standards
Requirements
- 7+ years' experience in Data Engineering or Data Platform development
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data platform solutions
- Strong expertise in Databricks
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric
- Strong SQL and Spark development experience
- Data modelling experience including dimensional modelling, star and snowflake schemas
- Experience with cloud-based analytics platforms
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Previous exposure to retail, POS or consumer business environments is highly desirable
What's on Offer
- Opportunity to shape a modern enterprise data platform
- Exposure to Databricks and Microsoft Fabric at scale
- High visibility across business and technology stakeholders
- Leadership and mentoring responsibilities
- Long-term strategic transformation programme