Data Engineering Jobs in Manchester

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £85,000 – £95,000 pa
• Permanent

Designs, builds and maintains data solutions on Microsoft Fabric, including pipelines, lakehouses, warehouses and integrations for financial reporting. Partners with Finance and business stakeholders to turn complex requirements into secure, automated data platforms, while driving best practice in governance, testing and CI/CD.

Microsoft Fabric · Data Factory · OneLake +4

• Manchester
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £450 – £480 pd
• Senior
• Contract

Define and govern end-to-end architecture for large-scale data migration solutions at a banking client, producing HLDs, architecture decision records and migration patterns. Provide design oversight to Data Engineers and Software Engineers while aligning with enterprise, security and data governance standards. Requires on-site presence two days a week in Manchester.

dbt · GCP

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £65,000 – £80,000 pa
• Senior

First dedicated data engineer for a growing business building a new digital services platform, reporting to the CTO. You'll own the data platform, developing batch and streaming pipelines, building warehouse or lakehouse architecture and data models, and establishing governance, security and GDPR/FCA-compliant practices to support reporting, analytics and future AI.

AWS · dbt · Airflow +5

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £70,000 – £90,000 pa
• Lead · manages people

Hands-on lead role owning an existing data estate and building a modern, scalable platform supporting BI, Data Science and Applied AI. Involves modernising SQL Server, SSIS/SSDT and Power BI, building lakehouse architecture on AWS, streaming with Flink, Terraform and CI/CD, plus line-managing a small team of Data Engineers.

AWS · SQL Server · SSIS +7

• Manchester
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• £50,000 – £60,000 pa
• Contract

Hands-on engineering role building a modern Azure data platform, designing and developing scalable automated pipelines with Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse and Logic Apps. Covers the full data lifecycle from ingestion to transformation and delivery, optimising flows for performance and reliability while supporting data quality and monitoring. Works in an agile team alongside data engineers, architects, product owners, test analysts and BI teams.

Azure Data Factory · Databricks · Azure Synapse +7

• Manchester
• Hybrid · 4 days in office
• £800 – £1,000 pd
• Lead
• Contract

Hands-on technical leadership role shaping a strategic data platform for an investment management firm, with Snowflake at its core. Responsibilities span designing scalable platform solutions, building and optimising end-to-end ELT pipelines, defining engineering standards and governance, and developing Infrastructure as Code with Cloud Engineering. Works in an Agile team supporting analytics, AI and ML adoption.

Snowflake · Snowpark · dbt +7

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £60,000 – £75,000 pa
• Senior

Design and implement robust data pipelines and configure Quantexa components while leading the technical development of Quantexa-based solutions for established clients. Work with Spark, Scala and Python Databricks, with exposure to DevOps and CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker and Kubernetes. Hybrid role in Manchester supporting client data engineering and integration engagements.

Quantexa · Spark · Scala +7

• Manchester
• Remote
• £60,000 – £80,000 pa
• Mid-level

Builds and owns data pipelines in Python and SQL on an AWS platform, working with S3, Glue, Lambda and Redshift. Integrates internal and external data sources, automates reporting and improves data quality, with ownership of infrastructure, pipelines and data models. Joins a new data team at a growing financial services business, shaping the platform from day one.

AWS · S3 · AWS Glue +2

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £700 pd
• Senior · manages people
• Contract

Lead a new central data function for a regulated financial services business, bringing data from multiple operating platforms into one capability. You'll stand up and manage a distributed team of architects, engineers, analysts, stewards and QA, setting governance, cadence and delivery structure, with an immediate start expected.

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £90,000 – £100,000 pa
• Director · manages people
• Permanent

Owns the data engineering strategy, architecture and roadmap for an established online business, leading a team of ten through a migration from on-prem SQL to Azure. Sets engineering standards across data modelling, pipelines, governance and automated deployments, and makes the calls on tooling, budget and suppliers while reporting into the C-suite. Microsoft Fabric adoption and practical AI use are open questions the role holder will shape.

Azure · Microsoft Fabric · Azure Data Factory +1

• Manchester
• Remote
• £84,160 – £126,240 pa
• Senior

Owns complex Maia rollouts end to end, running discovery, architecting multi-cloud deployments and writing production-grade code, including modifying Matillion's own product codebase where features are missing. Acts as a cross-functional escalation point across Sales, Product and Customer Success, mentors junior FDEs and works agentic-first with AI tools.

AWS · Azure · GCP +6

• Manchester
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £60,000 – £100,000 pa
• Senior

End-to-end data architecture role owning the full data lifecycle, from ingestion to consumption, across secure client environments. Involves designing lakehouse and medallion architectures, defining batch and streaming pipelines, and making decisions on storage, orchestration, governance and security. Cloud-agnostic, working with AWS, Azure or GCP alongside Databricks, Snowflake, Spark and Kafka.

AWS · Azure · GCP +7

• Manchester
• Hybrid · 2–3 days in office
• £56,293 – £61,064 pa
• Senior

Lead and oversee data architecture across multiple systems, designing data models, metadata frameworks and integration, warehousing and cloud-based data services. Work with technical architects, project teams and stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable, well-governed solutions, supporting the full data product lifecycle from design to live service.

MS SQL · MySQL · MongoDB +6

• Manchester
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £85,000 – £95,000 pa
• Mid-level

Hands-on role building the next generation of a financial data platform on Microsoft Fabric, designing pipelines, lakehouses and warehouses and integrating financial systems with enterprise platforms and APIs. You will build data models and reporting layers for Finance, working closely with senior business stakeholders, and apply testing, source control and deployment practices. The team is a growing in-house data engineering function in a major professional services firm.

Microsoft Fabric · Data Factory · OneLake +4

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £70,000 – £95,000 pa
• Lead · manages people

Hands-on lead role owning an existing SQL Server, SSIS and Power BI data estate and modernising it into a governed AWS lakehouse with batch and real-time processing. Combines architecture and technology selection with line management of a small Data Engineering team, plus building a Customer Data Platform and enabling BI, Data Science and Applied AI.

AWS · SQL Server · SSIS +7