Lead Data Platform Engineer

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Birmingham / £75000 - £85000 annum

INFO

Salary
SALARY:

£75000 - £85000

Location

LOCATION

Birmingham

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Lead Data Platform Engineer

£75,000 - £85,000

Remote

You are a well-experienced Lead Data Platform Engineer, looking to take ownership of a modern lakehouse platform and shape best‑in‑class data engineering practices.

THE COMPANY

This industry-leading organisation serves specialist, people-first knowledge to its clients and is looking to provide further expertise by improving its data capabilities.

THE ROLE

As a Lead Data Engineer you will build a Databricks platform with ownership, shaping how data is engineered, deployed, automated, and governed in Azure.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

  • Designing and developing end‑to‑end data platform solutions in Azure using Databricks
  • Building and maintaining automation for cluster management, monitoring, tagging, and platform optimisation.
  • Implementing CI/CD and DevOps best practices across data pipelines and platform components.
  • Taking ownership of design decisions and long‑term architectural direction.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Lead Data Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Deep expertise with Azure Databricks, including development, deployment, and platform‑level engineering.
  • Strong software engineering capability across Pyspark, Spark SQL and Azure Data Factory.
  • Solid understanding of DevOps practices including CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
  • Ability to work effectively with stakeholders across engineering functions.

BENEFITS

The successful Lead Data Platform Engineer will receive the following benefits:

  • Salary between £75,000 - £85,000 - depending on experience
  • Competitive bonus and benefits.
  • Remote work with a flexible 35-hour week that can be taken as a 4-day week.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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