Senior Data Engineer

James Andrews Recruitment
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8EY, United Kingdom
Today
£400 – £500 pd

Salary

£400 – £500 pd

Job Type
Contract
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
10 Jun 2026 (Today)

Data Engineer

6 month Contract

Hybrid - 1 day per week in office (Wiltshire)

We are currently working in partnership with a housing association who are recruiting for an IT Data Engineer on a contract basis. The role focuses on designing, building and delivering solutions across the Microsoft cloud stack, with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Fabric and Azure data platform.

Experience required:

Hands-on experience delivering end-to-end data solutions across Microsoft Fabric and Azure, including OneLake, Lakehouse or Warehouse, Dataflows Gen2, Pipelines, Synapse and SQL

Experience designing and building lakehouse and pipeline solutions from ingestion through to consumption

ETL and ELT design experience, including data modelling using lakehouse patterns and star or snowflake schemas

Experience migrating or integrating legacy data sources such as Dataverse and SQL into modern analytics architectures

Skills, knowledge and expertise required:

Strong practical capability across Microsoft Fabric and Azure data services, including Dataflows Gen2, Fabric Pipelines, Data Factory, Synapse and SQL

Advanced SQL skills, including complex joins, query optimisation and performance tuning

Strong Python or PySpark skills for data transformation and automation

Strong ETL and ELT design capability with experience building batch pipelines

James Andrews is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role.

At James Andrews Recruitment Solutions we try to respond to all applications personally, however, due to the high volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard back from us within 72 hours, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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