Lead Data Engineer- Basingstoke/ £75,000
Oliver James associates
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
7 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 75KJob location
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Unity
Azure
Databases
Data Dictionary
Information Engineering
Data Warehousing
DevOps
SQL Databases
Data Lake
Data Lineage
Star Schema
Azure
Databricks
Job description
- Lead the evolution of our data engineering practice, supporting modernisation, automation, and scalability.
- Design and optimise Databricks architecture, data models, and deployment standards.
- Re-build and re-platform core components to handle growing data volumes and business demand.
- Implement better controls around change management, lineage, and deployment (DevOps for data).
- Introduce new tooling around change deployment and governance in partnership with external consultants.
- Improve data quality through robust monitoring, testing frameworks, and alerting solutions.
- Maintain and modernise SQL workloads, including legacy databases and reporting environments.
- Support upgrades, platform enhancements, and new data tooling selection.
- Provide best-practice guidance to the wider data function and line-manage up to 3 individuals.
- Ensure documentation, data dictionaries, lineage, and governance standards are embedded across the team., * Help choose and implement the tooling that will define our future.
- A strategic, hands-on role that truly shapes our platform.
- The chance to modernise a growing data function from the ground up.
- A team of 8 (4 engineers) with consultancy support and room to scale.
- Long-term career impact: your work sets the foundation for the next phase of our data maturity.
Requirements
- Strong expertise with SQL, particularly Databricks SQL.
- Demonstrable experience designing data models (e.g., star schema) and scalable architecture.
- Knowledge of Azure Modern Data Warehouse tools: Synapse, Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog.
- Experience with pipeline orchestration (e.g., Synapse pipelines).
- Proven background in ITIL change management and incident management.
- Implementing data quality controls, monitoring, and alerting in production environments.
- Experience managing data lineage, glossaries, and data dictionaries., * Exposure to legacy or DBA-style SQL performance work.
- Experience working alongside or managing consultancy partners.
- Background in high-data-volume or regulated industries.
