Senior Data Engineer Microsoft Azure data

Senior Data Engineer Microsoft Azure data

This is a new and exclusive opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer with strengths in Microsoft Azure data to be a key lead in strengthening, evolving, and modernising our core data platforms.

Job details

• Title: Senior Data Engineer
• Technical Stack: Microsoft Azure data
• Location: London or Glasgow with 1 day a week in the office
• Permanent role salary £80,000- £100,000
• Requirements: Strong experience as a Senior Data Engineer in enterprise data environments.
• Technical stack: Microsoft Azure data platforms, including Azure Synapse or equivalent data platform, Azure SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps

This is a new opportunity to join a thriving team to be a key voice in modernizing core data platforms across bronze, silver and gold layers, ensuring our data is reliable, scalable, secure, and ready to power advanced analytics, AI-driven insights, and executive decision making.

We are transitioning from a traditional Azure Synapse-centric estate toward a Microsoft Fabric and OneLake-based architecture, embracing modern engineering patterns such as serverless storage, medallion design, Spark-based transformations, DBT-driven analytics engineering, and fully automated CI/CD.

This role can be based in either Glasgow or London as both offices have large data teams.

You will take joint ownership of existing data pipelines and analytics platforms, ensuring they are stable, performant, and trusted by downstream consumers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support and enhance ingestion and integration pipelines sourcing data from:
• MS Dynamics CRM
• MS Dynamics Finance & Operations
• SAP SuccessFactors
• A range of bespoke and third‑party systems

Develop and maintain the Azure Synapse-based ingestion and staging layer, including:

Synapse Link integrations.

Synapse data pipelines for orchestration and movement.

Support the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) built on Azure SQL Server, including:

Transformations using stored procedures, views, and DBT.

Clear separation of bronze, silver, and gold layers aligned to a medallion architecture.

Collaborate with BI and Analytics teams to ensure Gold layer data models appropriately support:

Power BI semantic models

Executive dashboards and operational reporting

This is a really interesting role in a thriving business.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIANCE

• Strong experience as a Senior Data Engineer in enterprise data environments.
• Strategic thinker with experience supporting the delivery of a strategy.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills at all levels of an organisation.
• Hands‑on expertise with Microsoft Azure data platforms, including:
• Azure Synapse or equivalent data platform
• Azure SQL Server
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure DevOps

Practical delivery experience using medallion architectures (Bronze / Silver / Gold).

Strong SQL skills and experience with DBT

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