Senior Data Engineer

Please find the job Description: Role: Data Engineer SC Cleared Job Location: London,UK (Hybrid) Mode of hiring: Contract Role skills & responsibilities • Team leadership & delivery: Set standards, direct engineers, review designs,unblock delivery, mentor the team; plan and coordinate across internal squads and suppliers. • manage risks/issues to meet EDP milestones. • Stakeholder coordination: Engage effectively with product owners, analysts and technology leads; report progress and risks to senior stakeholders and the SRO with concise status updates and decisions. • Technical leadership: Own EDP architecture on Microsoft Fabric(Lakehouse/Warehouse patterns, OneLake organization); define and implementingestion and transformation pipelines (Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks); • establish modelling standards for the gold layer and semantic models; • performance/cost optimization; lineage/observability; governance (RBAC/security, data retention). • Multisource integration: Coordinate reliable ingestion/orchestration, testing and release practices. • Operational readiness: Ensure documentation/runbooks and nonfunctional requirements (security, resilience, performance) are met. • Current EDP milestone – Goldlayer modelling (context for urgency) • Country/facility risk parameter processing progressing; initial goldlayer documentation produced. • Biweekly Golden Layer review cadence in place; test data preparation underway for report validation. • Target outcome: baseline goldlayer model components to enable consistent semantic models and reporting.