Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer Start date: immediate Perm/Contract Leeds-based • No Sponsorship • Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, and ensures the delivery of scalable data solutions. Azure, Databricks and SQL Server Exp Required: • 7+years of experience in implementation experience with data integration tools such as Microsoft SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Glue, Step Functions, Airflow, Apache Flume/Sqoop/Pig, etc. • 3-5 years of management experience required • 3-5 years consulting experience preferred • Minimum of 5 years of data architecture, data modelling or similar experience • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, Master’s Degree Preferred • Strong data warehousing, OLTP systems, data integration and SDLC • Strong experience in big data frameworks & working experience in Spark or Hadoop or Hive (incl. derivatives like pySpark (preferred), Spark Scala or Spark SQL) or Similar, along with experience in libraries / frameworks to accelerate code development • Experience using major data modelling tools (examples: ERwin, ER/Studio, PowerDesigner, etc.) • Experience with major database platforms (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, Azure Data Lake, Hadoop, Azure Synapse/SQL Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Redshift etc.) • Strong experience in orchestration & working experience in either Data Factory or HDInsight or Data Pipeline or Cloud composer or Similar • Understanding and experience with major Data Architecture philosophies (Dimensional, ODS, Data Vault, etc.)