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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Adecco
- **Location:** Shirley, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £143,000.0 - £169,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Profiling, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Microsoft SQL Server, Nagios, Performance Tuning, DataOps, Azure Data Lake, SQL Databases, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services, Data Streaming, Git, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Bicep, Integration Frameworks, Data Management, Machine Learning Operations, Terraform, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2839923250-2

## About the Role

* Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related field
 * Experience in enterprise-scale data engineering
 * Relevant certifications (Azure, AWS, Databricks) desirable

## Description

Design, build and assure scalable, secure data products and pipelines across Azure, AWS and Databricks. Lead data integration design, technical decisions and best practices, while mentoring engineers and enabling high-quality analytics, BI and data science outcomes.

Reporting & Collaboration

 * Reports to Lead Data Engineer with oversight from Head of Data Operations & Engineering
 * Works across Data Science, Analytics, Architecture, Cyber, Product and Delivery teams
 * Acts as a senior technical lead, guiding engineers and influencing cross-team decisions, * Lead design and delivery of scalable batch & streaming data pipelines and products
 * Define and assure enterprise-aligned data integration architectures
 * Optimise cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Databricks) for performance and cost
 * Build and own ETL/ELT pipelines using PySpark, SQL and orchestration frameworks
 * Automate and modernise legacy data processes with reusable patterns
 * Design robust data models (Delta Lake, schema evolution, metadata, lineage)
 * Ensure data security, governance, and compliance (access control, encryption, lifecycle)
 * Provide technical leadership, mentoring and design reviews
 * Collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex technical decisions clearly
 * Support strategic roadmap, tooling and continuous improvement initiatives

Core Skills & Expertise

Data Engineering

 * Advanced PySpark and SQL, performance tuning and best practice coding
 * Data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical) and integration design
 * Data quality, testing frameworks and automated validation
 * Strong data analysis, profiling and insight delivery

Cloud & Platforms

 * Azure: Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, ADLS Gen2, Event Hub, Purview
 * AWS: S3, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Lambda, EMR, Lake Formation
 * Databricks: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Structured Streaming, MLflow
 * SQL Server stack (SSIS, SSRS)

Engineering Practices

 * CI/CD for data platforms and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep)
 * Git, monitoring and alerting tools
 * Data governance, lineage and observability frameworks
 * Leading technical design assurance and reviews


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