Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Manchester (but mostly remote – just required onsite for training and team events)

Salary: £34,500 – £55,000 (depending on experience)

We are seeking a talented Data Engineer to join an innovative technology and data team. This is a hands-on technical role where you will be responsible for building technical data solutions for projects and persistent data products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing secure/high-quality data pipelines from various data sources.
• Ensuring data is cleansed/mapped/transformed/optimised for storage.
• Building data observability/quality into all data pipelines.
• Creating solutions for data lake storage/physical database models/reporting structures.
• Conducting unit testing/peer testing to ensure code quality.
• Maintaining effective documentation for transparency/understandability.
• Following coding standards/architectural principles.
• Mentoring/coaching junior data engineers.
• Developing BI solutions including data marts/semantic layers/visualisations.

Core Skills:

• Strong PySpark and SQL development skills.
• Experience with Azure Data Engineering.
• Ability to turn customer requests into actionable designs.
• Collaboration skills in an agile team environment.

Experience & Knowledge:

• 2-5 years of experience in designing and building end-to-end data solutions.
• Proficiency in SQL Server and/or Azure (Datafactory, Databricks).
• Experience with large, event-based datasets.
• Familiarity with testing techniques and tools.
• Excellent communication skills and a proactive approach.
• Understanding of the full data lifecycle and CI/CD practices.
• Experience working in an agile environment.