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Lead Data Engineer, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
Client:
People Talent
Location:
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Views:
3
Posted:
08.05.2025
Expiry Date:
22.06.2025
Job Description:
People Talent has partnered with a global digital engineering consultancy recruiting for a Lead Data Engineer on a permanent basis based out of their Sunderland office. The role requires a strong understanding of technology consultancy services, excellent communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, as this position will be client-facing.
Skills and experience:
* Proven experience as a Lead Data Engineer with a focus on Azure cloud services.
* Experience managing small teams while being hands-on.
* Strong database fundamentals including SQL/TSQL, performance tuning, and schema design.
* Experience architecting and building data applications using Azure, specifically Data Warehouse and/or Data Lake.
Technologies:
* Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks, and Power BI. Experience creating low-level designs for data platform implementations.
* ETL pipeline development for data source integration and transformations, including documentation.
* Proficiency working with APIs and integrating them into data pipelines.
* Strong programming skills in Python.
* Experience with data wrangling such as cleansing, quality enforcement, and curation (e.g., Azure Synapse notebooks, Databricks).
* Data modeling experience to describe data landscape, entities, and relationships.
* Experience migrating data from legacy systems to the cloud.
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly Terraform.
* Proficiency in developing Power BI dashboards.
* Strong focus on documentation and diagramming (e.g., ERDs).
* Effective communication and teamwork skills for cross-functional collaboration.
Preferred qualifications:
* Knowledge of data governance, data quality, security, metadata cataloging, and Master Data Management.
* Machine Learning and AI development experience.
Benefits:
* Up to 10% bonus based on performance.
* 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays, with options to carry forward or cash in 5 days annually.
* Life Insurance & Income protection.
* Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Tech Scheme with discounts on over 5000 tech products.
* Free unlimited Udemy account for continuous learning.
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