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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Harnham
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £80,000.0 - £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, BigQuery, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Data Processing, Data Ingestion, Snowflake, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Amazon Redshift, Databricks
- **Published:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/senior-data-engineer-manchester-lancashire/2778386824-2/

## About the Role

The successful Senior Data Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

 * Strong Python and SQL skills
 * AWS or GCP (NOT Azure)
 * Orchestration, ideally with Airflow or Dagsta but open to others
 * Data warehousing - Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery (NOT Databricks)
 * Terraform

## Description

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will sit within a high calibre data engineering team, owning and evolving core ETL pipelines that underpin the entire data platform. The focus is on building reliable, well-modelled data assets that can scale with the business.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

 * ETL pipelines for data ingestion and data modelling
 * Using AWS to store and process data, with Snowflake as the data warehouse
 * Use of Python and SQL
 * Data orchestration and use of Terraform


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