Senior Data Engineer
Warrington (3 days onsite, 2 days at home)
£60K + 10% bonus
You will lead the design and build of modern data platforms and analytics products in a cloud-first environment. You will own platform direction, deliver scalable pipelines, and support advanced analytics and AI use cases.
A key part of this role is hands-on work with Microsoft Fabric and AI. You will help shape how both are used together to deliver real business value.
What you will do
- Own the data platform. Define standards, architecture, and best practice across storage, pipelines, and analytics
- Design and deliver end to end data architecture. Focus on scalability, reuse, and performance
- Move legacy and hybrid systems into a modern cloud data platform
- Build and optimise automated data pipelines using SQL, Spark, and Python
- Develop feature pipelines to support machine learning use cases
- Set up CI/CD for data pipelines, models, and analytics assets
- Monitor performance, control costs, and improve reliability of pipelines
- Support enterprise reporting platforms. Improve data models, performance, and refresh cycles
- Build governed semantic layers and reusable data products
- Enable data science teams. Provide environments, tooling, and secure access to data
- Support model deployment, monitoring, and integration into production systems
- Integrate AI and machine learning services into data products, with a strong focus on Fabric-native capabilities
- Embed data quality, lineage, and documentation across all assets
- Ensure compliance with data governance standards and regulatory requirements
- Work with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Lead and mentor data engineers. Raise capability across the team
What you bring
- Strong experience building modern data platforms in a cloud environment
- Advanced skills in SQL, Python, and Spark
- Experience with data modelling, ETL and ELT design, and pipeline orchestration
- Hands on experience with CI/CD for data and analytics workflows
- Exposure to AI and machine learning platforms and integration
- Experience with real time or streaming data pipelines
- Strong experience with enterprise BI tools and semantic modelling
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers
- Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, security, and access control
- Strong communication skills. You explain complex topics in a clear way
What you are like
- You think in systems and solve problems with an engineering mindset
- You take ownership and manage priorities well
- You work well with both technical and business teams
- You focus on continuous improvement
- You deliver work to a high standard and on time
What you get
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Pension and life assurance
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with flexibility options
- Opportunity to shape a modern data platform and drive adoption of Fabric and AI
- Supportive and performance focused culture

