Senior Data Engineer - Azure position at UBDS Group. Work with clients, designers, analysts and engineers to shape and deliver modern data solutions end to end. Turn ambiguous business problems into clear data, analytical and technical solutions. Design, build and operate production-grade data pipelines, models and products using SQL, Python and modern data engineering frameworks.
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.
- Consulting & Delivery Mindset: user-centred approach, confidence communicating clearly, ability to produce high-quality, consultant-grade slides and written materials, strong critical thinking, proven experience delivering production-grade solutions to real users.
Benefits
- Training – All team members are offered a number of options in terms of personal development, whether it is technical led, business acumen or methodologies.
- Private medical cover for you and your spouse/partner, offered via Vitality
- Discretionary bonus based on a blend of personal and company performance
- Holiday – You will receive 25 Days holiday, plus 1 day for Birthday and 1 day for your work anniversary in addition to UK bank holidays
- Electric Vehicle leasing with salary sacrifice
- Contributed Pension Scheme
- Death in service cover
