Lead Data Engineer - Manchester - Hybrid - £75k - £80k

Wilmslow
2 weeks ago
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Lead Data Engineer - Manchester - Hybrid - £75k - £80k

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly experienced data engineer to join a start up tech consultancy and help to lead their data engineering practice. If you are an experienced and capable data engineer with a history of using Microsoft products and working in consultancy, this is the role for you!

Salary & Benefits

Competitive salary of £75k - £80k plus performance related bonus of 10%
27 days annual holiday, plus public holidays and your birthday off
Hybrid working model (2 days in office, 3 from home)
Pension contribution
Referral bonus scheme
Great opportunities for career progression
Role & Responsibilities

Design and deliver solutions utilising MS Fabric, ADF, Synapse, Databricks, SQL, and Python.
Work closely with a variety of clients to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
Be willing to engage and assist in pre-sales activities, bids, proposals etc.
Use key techniques such as Governance, Architecture, Data Modelling, ETL / ELT, Data Lakes, Data Warehousing, Master Data, and BI.
Consistently utilise key processes in the engineering delivery cycle including Agile and DevOps, Git, APIs, Containers, Microservices and Data Pipelines.
Assist in building out, developing, and training the data engineering function. What do I need to apply

Strong MS data engineering expertise (Fabric, ADF, Synapse, SQL)
Expert use of Databricks
Python experience
Consultancy experience
Mentorship experience

My client are looking to book in first stage interviews for next week and slots are already filling up fast. I have limited slots for 1st stage interviews next week so if you're interest, get in touch ASAP with a copy of your most recent and up to date CV and email me at or you can call me on (phone number removed).

Please Note: This is a permanent role for UK residents only. This role does not offer Sponsorship. You must have the right to work in the UK with no restrictions. Some of our roles may be subject to successful background checks including a DBS and Credit Check.

Nigel Frank are the go-to recruiter for Power BI and Azure Data Platform roles in the UK, offering more opportunities across the country than any other. We're the proud sponsor and supporter of SQLBits, Power Platform World Tour, the London Power BI User Group, Newcastle Power BI User Group and Newcastle Data Platform and Cloud User Group. To find out more and speak confidentially about your job search or hiring needs, please contact me directly at (url removed)

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