Lead Data Engineer

Glasgow
2 weeks ago
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Lead Data Engineer (Azure / Databricks)

NO VISA REQUIREMENTS

MUST BE BASED NEAR GLASGOW TO WORK 3 DAYS ONSITE

My FMCG client is undergoing a major transformation of their entire data landscape-migrating from legacy systems and manual reporting into a modern Azure + Databricks Lakehouse. They are building a secure, automated, enterprise-grade platform powered by Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Unity Catalog and Azure Data Factory.
They are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to help deliver high-quality pipelines and curated datasets used across Finance, Operations, Sales, Customer Care and Logistics.

What You'll Do

Lakehouse Engineering (Azure + Databricks)

Build and maintain scalable ELT pipelines using Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, PySpark and Spark SQL.

Work within a Medallion architecture (Bronze ? Silver ? Gold) to deliver reliable, high-quality datasets.

Ingest data from multiple sources including ChargeBee, legacy operational files, SharePoint, SFTP, SQL, REST and GraphQL APIs using Azure Data Factory and metadata-driven patterns.

Apply data quality and validation rules using Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines expectations.

Curated Layers & Data Modelling

Develop clean and conforming Silver & Gold layers aligned to enterprise subject areas.

Contribute to dimensional modelling (star schemas), harmonisation logic, SCDs and business marts powering Power BI datasets.

Apply governance, lineage and permissioning through Unity Catalog.

Orchestration & Observability

Use Lakeflow Workflows and ADF to orchestrate and optimise ingestion, transformation and scheduled jobs.

Help implement monitoring, alerting, SLAs/SLIs and runbooks to support production reliability.

Assist in performance tuning and cost optimisation.

DevOps & Platform Engineering

Contribute to CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to automate deployment of notebooks, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, SQL models and ADF assets.

Support secure deployment patterns using private endpoints, managed identities and Key Vault.

Participate in code reviews and help improve engineering practices.

Collaboration & Delivery

Work with BI and Analytics teams to deliver curated datasets that power dashboards across the business.

Contribute to architectural discussions and the ongoing data platform roadmap.

Tech You'll Use

Databricks: Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Lakeflow Workflows, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake

Azure: ADLS Gen2, Data Factory, Event Hubs (optional), Key Vault, private endpoints

Languages: PySpark, Spark SQL, Python, Git

DevOps: Azure DevOps Repos & Pipelines, CI/CD

Analytics: Power BI, Fabric

What We're Looking For

Experience

Commercial and proven Lead Data Engineering experience.

Hands-on experience delivering solutions on Azure + Databricks.

Strong PySpark and Spark SQL skills within distributed compute environments.

Experience working in a Lakehouse/Medallion architecture with Delta Lake.

Understanding of dimensional modelling (Kimball), including SCD Type 1/2.

Exposure to operational concepts such as monitoring, retries, idempotency and backfills.

Mindset

Good energy and enthusiasm
Keen to grow within a modern Azure Data Platform environment.
Comfortable with Git, CI/CD and modern engineering workflows.
Able to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Quality-driven, collaborative and proactive.

Why Join?

Opportunity to shape and build a modern enterprise Lakehouse platform.

Hands-on work with Azure, Databricks and leading-edge engineering practices.

Real progression opportunities within a growing data function.

Direct impact across multiple business domains

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