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Senior Data Engineer / Power BI
£60,000 - 80,000
Head Resourcing
Renfrew Street 77, Glasgow
£60,000 - 80,000
Requirements
Must:
- 5-8+ years of Data Engineering experience
- 2-3+ years delivering production workloads on Azure and Databricks
- Strong expertise in PySpark and Spark SQL
- Proven experience with Medallion/Lakehouse delivery using Delta Lake
- Solid understanding of dimensional modelling (Kimball) including surrogate keys and SCD types
- Operational experience with SLAs, observability, and idempotent pipelines
- Familiarity with secure Azure Landing Zone patterns
- Comfort with Git, CI/CD, and automated deployments
- Clear communication skills to translate technical decisions into business outcomes
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate (nice to have)
- Streaming ingestion experience (nice to have)
- Subscription/entitlement modelling experience (nice to have)
- Advanced Unity Catalog security knowledge (nice to have)
- Experience with Terraform/Bicep for IaC (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Engineer scalable ELT pipelines using Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, PySpark, and Spark SQL
- Implement ingestion patterns for files, APIs, SaaS platforms, SQL sources, SharePoint, and SFTP
- Apply expectations for data quality, schema validation, and operational reliability
- Build clean, conformed Silver/Gold models aligned to business domains
- Deliver star schemas, harmonisation logic, and business marts for Power BI datasets
- Apply governance and lineage via Unity Catalog
- Design and optimise orchestration using Lakeflow Workflows and Azure Data Factory
- Implement monitoring, alerting, SLAs, and cost-optimisation
- Build CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for notebooks and pipelines
- Ensure secure platform operation using private endpoints and managed identities
- Contribute to platform standards and design patterns
- Collaborate with BI/Analytics teams to power dashboards
- Influence architecture decisions and uplift engineering maturity
Description
We are a rapidly scaling UK consumer brand located in Glasgow, seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join our team. You will be at the forefront of our data modernisation programme, moving towards a fully automated Azure Enterprise Landing Zone and Databricks Lakehouse. This is a unique opportunity to influence architecture and help define best practices. We offer a dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth and collaboration across various business functions.
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