Senior Data Engineer
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This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and driven individual to make a meaningful impact within SSE Renewables. The successful candidate will bring a strong commitment to continuous improvement, adaptability, and a hands-on approach to problem-solving. A genuine enthusiasm for delivering high-quality outcomes, combined with deep expertise in data management, is essential. If you thrive in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment and are motivated by making a difference, we encourage you to apply.
The Renewables Digital IM and Data Team is scaling up the development of a governed, cost-efficient data platform designed to deliver robust, actionable insights that support strategic decision-making and drive measurable business value across the organisation.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design, build, and optimise data ingestion, transformation, and serving layers across OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, and Synapse SQL/Spark-enabling reliable analytics, BI, and data science use cases across the Renewables business. You will collaborate with data architects, analysts, and product teams to deliver high-quality ELT/ETL pipelines, model data for performance and usability, and apply best practices in security, data quality, and observability.
In this role, you will act as a technical lead within the Data & AI team, contributing to project scoping, providing expert guidance, and ensuring solutions are well-architected and aligned with business needs. You will also mentor and support junior team members, helping them develop their skills and deliver strong engineering outcomes.
You Will
- Provide technical leadership, acting as an advisor during project scoping and offering internal consultancy to ensure solutions are well-designed and aligned to business goals.
- Deliver Data Platform Engineering by building and maintaining metadata-driven data pipelines using Fabric and Synapse, and developing Lakehouse/Warehouse layers using bronze/silver/gold patterns.
- Perform large-scale transformations using Fabric Notebooks (PySpark/SQL) and Synapse Spark, and design performant data models integrated with Power BI and Direct Lake.
- Lead Governance, Security & Compliance practices, including implementing Purview lineage and cataloguing, enforcing RBAC and data masking, managing SLAs/SLOs, and supporting data standards across the platform.
- Drive DevOps, automation, and collaboration, working closely with analysts, BI developers, and product teams to refine requirements, deliver scalable solutions, and guide junior engineers.
- Shape the future direction of the data platform by contributing to technology evaluations and architectural decisions, including assessing emerging tools, cloud capabilities, and opportunities to evolve beyond the current Fabric/Synapse landscape where beneficial.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Spark?, * A strong track record of delivering high-quality data solutions in a complex, fast-growing organisation, with the ability to balance priorities and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
- Excellent communication skills, enabling you to explain technical concepts clearly and work confidently with colleagues across the IM Apps & Data team and wider Renewables business.
- Deep expertise in modern Data Platform Engineering, with hands-on experience building metadata-driven pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and Synapse, developing Lakehouse/Warehouse architectures, and applying PySpark/SQL for large-scale data processing and data quality management.
- Proven ability to design performant, user-focused data models that integrate seamlessly with Power BI (including Direct Lake), along with a positive, solution-driven approach to resolving challenges.
- Experience working with modern cloud and analytics ecosystems such as AWS or Databricks, bringing additional perspective and flexibility that complements our current Microsoft-centric platform and supports future evolution of the data landscape.
Benefits & conditions
Salary: Salary: £ 42,600 - £64,000+ Performance-related bonus and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available, Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
