Data Engineer

Exciting Opportunity for Data Engineers Role Purpose The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining reliable, scalable data pipelines and data models that support analytics, reporting, and operational use cases. The role focuses on high-quality data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and environment management across the data platform, ensuring data is trusted, accessible, and fit for purpose. Key Responsibilities Data Pipelines & Integration • Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines for ingesting data from source systems (e.g. operational systems, APIs, files, third-party platforms) • Implement batch and, where required, near-real-time data ingestion patterns • Ensure pipelines are resilient, performant, and recoverable, with appropriate error handling and logging Orchestration & Scheduling • Define and manage workflow orchestration using scheduling and orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow or equivalent) • Manage dependencies, retries, alerts, and pipeline monitoring to support reliable data delivery • Optimise pipeline execution to meet agreed service levels for downstream reporting and analytics Data Modelling & Transformation • Design and maintain data models to support reporting, analytics, and operational use cases (e.g. ODS, dimensional, or analytical models) • Apply best practices for data transformation, naming standards, and model documentation • Collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to ensure models meet business requirements Environments & Platform Management • Work across development, test, and production environments, ensuring safe and controlled deployment of changes • Support environment configuration, version control, and CI/CD practices for data engineering workloads • Contribute to platform stability, performance tuning, and cost-effective use of infrastructure Data Quality & Governance • Implement basic data quality checks and validation rules within pipelines • Support data lineage, metadata, and documentation to improve transparency and trust in data • Work within established data governance, security, and access control frameworks Collaboration & Delivery • Work closely with data analysts, architects, and wider technology teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions • Participate in planning, estimation, and delivery of data engineering work • Support incident investigation and resolution related to data pipelines and data availability Essential • Strong experience building and maintaining data pipelines in a modern data platform • Solid understanding of data modelling concepts and patterns • Experience with workflow orchestration and scheduling tools • Strong capability in SQL and Python • Experience with Azure cloud-based data platforms such as Azure Synapse and Azure Data Factory • Experience working across multiple environments with version control • Good understanding of data quality, reliability, and operational considerations • Familiarity with CI/CD approaches for data engineering Desirable • Experience supporting analytics and reporting use cases in a production environment • Exposure to regulated or data-sensitive environments Please apply with an updated CV, if you're available and can do 3 days onsite in Manchester.