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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Immediate Media Co
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Confluence, JIRA, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Google Analytics, Sql Optimization, Git, Atlassian Tools, Terraform, Software Version Control, Databricks
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840675499-senior-data-engineer

## About the Role

You will have technical experience and a passion for solvingdataproblems. You will be comfortable handlingdatain any format,datamodelling and ETL processes. You will have a demonstrable technical skillset asdataengineering skills are paramount to this role. You will have good communication skills and be comfortable working with stakeholders and translating business requirements into technical specifications.

You should be delivery driven, self-motivated and capable of independent working. You should strive for best practice and technical excellence and be a person that actively looks for continual improvement.

You should beableand willingto guideandsupportotherengineers, including juniors. This will involvecoaching,knowledge-sharing,collaborative work,code reviewsandunblocking., * Advanced SQL skills.

 * AdvancedPython skills

 * Experience with PySparklibrary.

 * Experience with Databricks andDataLakehouse.

 * Experience with code control/Git

 * Experience managing CI/CD processes.

Advantageous, but not required:

 * DBT experience

 * Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)

 * Google Analytics

 * Google Ad Manager

 * Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)

 * A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival

## Description

* Take ownership for deliveringengineering tasks on time and to specifications

 * Be a technical expert in the data engineering discipline.

 * Build strong relationships with key stakeholders outside the team.

 * Be responsible fordataquality and ensuring problems are resolved swiftly.

 * Co-responsible for robust processes and technical best practice.

 * Co-responsible for thedataplatform and technology.

 * Foster skills, share knowledge and cross-train with peers and juniors

 * Extensive experience delivering data engineering projects


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