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# Azure Data Engineer

- **Company:** Essential Recruitment
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Salary:** £60,000 - £70,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Mapping, Data Warehousing, DevOps, Machine Learning, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL, Enterprise Data Management, Data Processing, Azure Data Factory, Data Strategy, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Data Management, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/azure-data-engineer/essential-recruitment-job108317959

## About the Role

Experience of having led a successful enterprise data platform strategy and implementation programme "from scratch"

 - In-depth experience of Azure Data Factory for designing, implementing and maintaining data pipelines

 - Detailed knowledge of data platform technologies including Delta Lake/ Medallion Architecture

 - Strong experience of Azure Synapse and PySpark

 - Solid knowledge of the "data wrangling" operations within data platforms including reconciliations/ h ash totals, PII data, confirm dimensions etc

My client's product suite comprises a series of heavily data-centric solutions and the aim of the business is to employ AI and Machine Learning as the foundation of a series of data-led business decisions. Any experience of working with or implementing AI or Machine Learning in a software products environment would be ideal.

Azure Data Engineer - Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Synapse, Data Mapping, Data Warehousing, SQL Server, NoSQL, PySpark, DevOps, CI/ CD, Agile Methodology - Remote (London) - £60-70k + bonus + bens

## Description

Azure Data Engineer - Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Synapse, Data Mapping, Data Warehousing, SQL Server, NoSQL, PySpark, DevOps, CI/ CD, Agile Methodology - Remote (London) - £60-70k + bonus + bens

An experienced Azure Data Engineer is urgently required to take responsibility for helping to define and implement my client's data strategy and for the design, build and implementation of a new Enterprise data platform. The role is a key appointment and viewed as transformational for this highly-successful solution provider with an enviable customer base and an impressive portfolio of products

Azure Data Engineer Role and Responsibilities:

 - Work collaboratively with Architects to define, architect and implement an Enterprise data platform

 - Build, test and maintain a series of complex data platform pipelines

 - Assume full responsibility for Azure Data Engineering including ingestion, transformation, translation, cleansing and publishing

 - Play a key role in data modelling, data management and data governance

 - Lead the organisation through the adoption and implementation of data platform initiatives to enable data-led business decisions