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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Head Resourcing Ltd
- **Location:** Glasgow, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £65,000.0 - £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Data Lakes, Data Management, Databricks
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.headresourcing.com/job/senior-data-engineer-6006997/apply

## About the Role

* Strong commercial experience with Databricks in production environments
 * Excellent data modelling and architecture skills
 * Expertise in Delta Lake and Medallion design principles
 * Azure Data Factory experience, including parameterised and environment-driven pipelines
 * Strong SQL skills plus Python and/or Scala
 * Experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and engineering solutions

Nice to have

 * Microsoft Fabric and OneLake experience
 * CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code exposure
 * Unity Catalog knowledge
 * Azure or Databricks certifications
 * Experience working alongside Power BI teams

## Description

* Designing, building and optimising Databricks pipelines and jobs
 * Creating scalable Delta Lake solutions using Medallion architecture
 * Developing and maintaining Azure Data Factory pipelines
 * Owning data models across bronze, silver and gold layers
 * Driving CI/CD, deployment and release processes through Azure DevOps
 * Monitoring performance, reliability and cost across critical data workloads
 * Supporting the delivery of data into Microsoft Fabric and OneLake environments


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