Senior Data Engineer - Azure
UBDSManchester, England, United Kingdom
Posted February 6, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
UBDS Group empowers organizations to achieve remarkable digital transformations through innovative technology solutions. We work with clients across the public and private sector to design and build products, platforms and services that genuinely make a difference to users.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who combines deep technical capability with a strong consulting mindset to shape and deliver modern data solutions end to end. As a Senior Data Engineer at UBDS, you'll work closely with clients, designers, analysts and engineers to build, guide others, and help clients understand what good looks like.
Requirements
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear data, analytical and technical requirements.
- Strong SQL and Python skills for data modelling, transformation, automation and analysis.
- Experience designing data models and architectures across data warehouses, lakehouse and event-driven patterns, or strong semantic modelling in Power BI or other visualisation tools.
- Hands-on experience with modern data engineering frameworks such as Spark / PySpark, Pandas and orchestration tools.
- Experience working with cloud data and AI platforms on AWS or Azure (e.g. Databricks, Redshift, Bedrock, Microsoft Fabric).
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, including Git, testing and QA, CI/CD pipelines and modular, maintainable design.
- Strong analytics and statistical reasoning, including metric design, experimentation and interpretation of results.
- Practical AI/ML literacy, including integrating model APIs, evaluation approaches and prompt orchestration.
- Experience applying data governance, security and quality best practices, such as access control, data catalogues, lineage and GDPR awareness.
- Ability to communicate insight through data visualisation and storytelling using tools like Power BI, Tableau or Python-based charts.
- Confidence communicating clearly and working effectively in ambiguous, client-driven environments.
- Proven experience delivering production-grade solutions to real users, supporting live services and learning from real-world feedback.
Benefits
- Training
- Private medical cover for you and your spouse/partner, offered via Vitality
- Discretionary bonus based on a blend of personal and company performance
- Holiday
- Electric Vehicle leasing with salary sacrifice
- Contributed Pension Scheme
- Death in service cover