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Senior Data Engineer

Manchester, Greater Manchester💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-03 → 2026-08-07

Core

Design and implement reliable, scalable data pipelines, models, and infrastructure to enable rapid, safe, and informed decision-making across the organization.

Role type

Senior IC data engineer (technical lead)

Builds

Complex ELT/ETL workflows, dimensional models, semantic layers, and cloud data warehouse/lakehouse systems

Domain

Cloud-native data engineering and analytics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Expert SQL, data modelling (dimensional/star schemas), dbt, ELT/ETL pipeline development, cloud data warehouse management, PostgreSQL administration, Python/Scala, data testing frameworks, streaming data technologies

Preferred skills

Observability and reliability improvements at scale, data science workflows and ML feature pipelines, FinOps practices, data cataloguing and lineage tooling

Technologies

Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Kinesis, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Parquet, Delta, Iceberg

Responsibilities

Design and maintain dimensional models and semantic layers; Build and operate batch and streaming pipelines; Implement comprehensive testing frameworks and data contracts; Manage and tune cloud warehouses and PostgreSQL clusters; Mentor associate and mid-level engineers; Lead knowledge-sharing sessions and documentation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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