Senior Azure Data Engineer – Business Information – London – Hybrid Working

Job title : Senior Azure Data Engineer – Business Information – London – Hybrid Working
Location : London
Contact : Roddy Coltart
Call : Roddy
Email : email Roddy
Reference : 1572356
​THE SEARCH:

Senior Azure Data Engineer required. Altus Partners’ client, a PE backed business information organisation, is looking for a highly motivated Senior Azure Data Engineer to join their team in London.  

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Azure Data Engineer to take full ownership of our client’s data engineering function and drive it to the next level – helping to shape and define the future of the data capability.

 

THE ROLE:
  • Multi-faceted hands-on senior data engineer role, with a lot of stakeholder engagement, as well as team mentoring / leadership responsibilities

  • Full responsibility for the revamped data architecture

  • Further develop the data platform – ensuring it’s scalable and flexible

  • Replace the remaining legacy systems

  • E2E data pipeline responsibility

  • Responsibility for API integrations

  • Ownership of CI/CD processes

  • Playing a key role in helping to drive the ambitious group-wide growth plans

  • Seek new opportunities that align to the overarching business growth strategy and data engineering strategy

  • Immediate leadership / mentoring responsibility of more junior members of the team – opportunity for this to grow quickly for the right candidate

 

THE REQUIREMENTS:
  • 5+ years working in fast-paced commercial environments – sector agnostic

  • 2-3 years + working in a similar data engineer position using Azure / Databricks

  • Excellent Python

  • Excellent SQL

  • Strong experience with MS Azure

  • Strong experience with Databricks

  • Experience building scalable, maintainable code and architecture, strong experience building pipelines and adhering to CI/CD best practices

  • Ideally you will have experience with Spark (bonus)

  • Ideally you will have experience with Machine Learning (bonus) 

  • Ideally you will have people management experience (bonus)