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# Senior Data & Ai Engineer

- **Company:** iO Associates
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Vault Modeling, Cursor, Python (Programming Language), OpenAI, Cloud Services, Microsoft Copilot, SQL Databases, Sql Optimization, GitHub Copilot, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Claude Code, Apache Spark, Agentic-AI, Git, Microsoft Fabric, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Data Management, Claude, Terraform, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-data-engineer/io-associates-job108298530

## About the Role

* Significant hands-on data engineering experience, ideally in consultancy across multiple client environments
 * Advanced SQL and strong ETL/ELT pipeline experience
 * Hands-on Azure, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric or comparable cloud platform experience
 * Python or PySpark, plus Git, CI/CD, testing, monitoring and infrastructure as code
 * Strong data modelling and client-facing communication skills
 * Practical experience building AI-powered solutions and using tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or Cursor day to day, with real examples

Tech: Azure, ADF, Synapse, Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark, Terraform, Data Vault, LLM APIs, RAG, agentic frameworks

If you're a UK-based data engineer with consultancy experience and a practical approach to AI, apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.

## Description

They're hiring a hands-on Senior AI & Data Engineer to own technical delivery from discovery and design through to deployment and production support, lead client engagement, and help win new business. This is not a purely advisory role: you'll be in the technology daily, using AI-assisted development tools to speed up delivery without lowering standards., * Lead the design, build and delivery of cloud data platforms on Azure, Databricks and Microsoft Fabric

 * Write and review complex SQL, including tuning and troubleshooting
 * Build and optimise production ETL/ELT pipelines with solid orchestration, monitoring and recovery
 * Design dimensional, warehouse and lakehouse data models
 * Resolve data-quality, reliability and performance issues
 * Set engineering standards and mentor the delivery team
 * Support new business through client discovery and credible solution design
 * Build practical AI and agentic solutions using OpenAI, Claude and Microsoft Copilot, integrated with existing data platforms