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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Ocho People
- **Location:** Ballymena, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £60,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Python (Programming Language), Power BI, SQL Databases, Tableau (Software), Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Data Analytics, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5819148660

## About the Role

* 3 to 7 years' experience in Data Engineering or Analytics Engineering
 * Track record designing and building production grade data pipelines
 * Strong data modelling, data warehousing and ETL/ELT development skills
 * Excellent SQL and a solid understanding of modern cloud data platforms
 * Commercial experience with Microsoft Fabric and/or Snowflake
 * Experience working with dbt in a production environment
 * Working knowledge of Power BI and data governance/quality frameworks
 * Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
 * A proactive approach, confident introducing new ideas and challenging existing process

Desirable / Nice to Have:

 * Tableau and/or Azure Data Factory
 * Python
 * Exposure to CI/CD for data platforms or AI enabled analytics

## Description

This is far more than a reporting role. You will take ownership of how data is collected, transformed, governed and consumed across the business, working closely with architecture, digital transformation and stakeholder teams to build something genuinely new. You will have real autonomy to shape tooling, standards and platform direction from day one, with a clear route towards Data Architecture and Data Leadership as the function grows. It suits someone who wants to build scalable, well governed data platforms, not simply produce dashboards., * Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes

 * Develop and optimise a modern cloud data platform
 * Build semantic models, datasets and data products for business users
 * Deliver Power BI reports and dashboards where required
 * Implement data governance, quality and security best practice
 * Design scalable data architecture to support future business growth
 * Partner with business stakeholders to understand how data is generated and used
 * Champion self service analytics across the organisation
 * Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform improvements
 * Mentor colleagues and promote engineering best practice across the wider technology team


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