Senior Data Engineer

Salary: £70,000 - £80,000
Location: Manchester / Lytham (Hybrid)

Maxwell Bond are partnering with an ambitious and growing business looking to appoint a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in building and shaping its data capabilities.

With significant investment in technology and a growing focus on data-led decision-making, the organisation is developing a new data platform to support its continued growth, improve business intelligence and lay the foundations for future analytics and AI applications.

This is an opportunity to join a growing technology function at an exciting stage, taking ownership of a greenfield data platform, influencing technical decisions and helping establish the standards and foundations for a new data team.

What you'll do as a Senior Data Engineer:
  • Design and build a modern data platform, combing high volume data into a well-structured environment.
  • Lead data ingestion, storage and modelling across databases, looking at accessibility and fit for operational use.
  • Establish data quality and retention strategies, building a scalable foundation.
  • Work with CTO and wider technology team to shape platform decisions, evaluate technologies and prioritise improvements.
  • Set engineering standards and best practices, providing technical guidance and helping develop the wider data function.
What we're looking for:
  • Commercial Data Engineering experience, ability to combine hands-on delivery with architectural input.
  • Strong SQL skills, experience across relational databases, and an understanding of NoSQL, time-series data and database performance.
  • Experience building modern data platforms, including data lakes, lakehouses or warehouses.
  • Strong knowledge of data ingestion, transformation and modelling.
  • A pragmatic, collaborative approach to building scalable data solutions, with an understanding of data quality, governance and preparing data for analytics, machine learning and AI.
  • Background in energy or regulated environments is beneficial, but not required.

What you'll get as a Senior Data Engineer:
  • £70,000 - £80,000 salary, depending on experience.
  • Up to 10% performance bonus.
  • Hybrid working across 2 sites
  • Flexi Time
  • The opportunity to shape a new data function and have a genuine influence over the organisation's technology direction.

If you're a Senior Data Engineer looking for an opportunity to take ownership, influence technical direction and build something that will have a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you !