Senior Data Engineer (ID: 6ZMXLdwh)

We’re recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team in Portsmouth or Basingstoke.

This is a permanent, full-time role working 37 hours per week, with a minimum of 20% of your working time office-based. This hybrid approach supports collaboration within the data team and with colleagues across the wider business.

What we can offer you

• 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, pro rata, with the option to buy or sell annual leave
• A productivity-related bonus scheme
• A generous contributory pension scheme, including a 6% employer contribution and matching of employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance at three times your annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Medicash healthcare cash plan
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave pay
• Access to counselling, legal and financial support
• Electric car scheme
• A wide range of in-house and e-learning courses
• Coaching and mentoring programmes to support your ongoing development

About the role

• We’re looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer who can combine hands-on engineering expertise with technical leadership.
• You’ll help shape and evolve our modern Azure data platform, establishing reusable engineering patterns, improving standards and introducing automated delivery practices. You’ll also play an important role in improving platform performance, reliability and cost efficiency, while supporting and mentoring other engineers within the team.
• Working with technologies including Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Delta Lake, SQL, Python and PySpark, you’ll design, build and optimise secure and scalable data pipelines and trusted data products.
• These solutions will support:
• Business reporting
• Self-service analytics
• Advanced analytics
• AI and data science initiatives
• Data-driven decision-making

As a senior member of the team, you’ll work closely with colleagues across the business to deliver robust, production-ready data solutions.

You’ll take a leading role in developing engineering standards, CI/CD practices, automated testing and platform optimisation, helping us create a reliable, scalable and high-performing data environment.

You’ll also mentor other engineers, share best practice and contribute to the continued development of a strong and collaborative data engineering function.

Your work will directly support the delivery of excellent services to our customers while ensuring that data is managed securely, efficiently and responsibly.

Position: Senior Data Engineer - Job Type: Full-Time - Salary: £65,000 per year - Location: Portsmouth or Basingstoke