Senior Azure Data Engineer (Synapse/ADF/PySpark) - 3-Month Contract - Coventry - Inside IR35
Posted Today by Hamilton Barnes
£425 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Coventry, Warwickshire, UK
Summary: The Senior Azure Data Engineer role is a 3-month contract based in Coventry, focusing on designing and executing data migration strategies using the Microsoft Azure data stack. The position requires expertise in Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, PySpark, Python, and SQL to build high-performance data pipelines. The role involves collaboration with stakeholders and mentoring junior team members. This position is classified as inside IR35 and requires a hybrid working arrangement with three days in the office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design migration payloads - constructing optimised, transactional data packages and schema mappings
- Orchestrate ELT/ETL processes, building fault-tolerant automated ingestion pipelines using Azure Data Factory
- Implement Change Data Capture (CDC) logic in Azure Synapse Analytics for incremental delta loads
- Write PySpark notebook jobs for data transformations, file partitioning, and data cleansing using Spark DataFrames
- Build native object-oriented utility applications in Python for API payload validation
- Author advanced SQL queries, stored procedures, and analytical views to model Dedicated SQL Pools
- Collaborate with customers and stakeholders, mentoring junior team members where required
Key Skills:
- 5+ years of active cloud data engineering experience - essential
- Extensive hands-on expertise across Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, PySpark, Python, and SQL Scripting
- Strong knowledge of Azure Synapse Pipelines and cloud orchestration tools
- Experience working with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS) and Azure SQL Databases
- Proficiency across multiple file formats including Delta Lake and JSON
Salary (Rate): £420 daily
City: Coventry
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior Azure Data Engineer (Synapse/ADF/PySpark) - 3-Month Contract - Coventry - Inside IR35
Contracting role based in Coventry (Hybrid, 3 days in office) for a 3-month engagement. You will design, develop, and execute enterprise-scale data migration strategies using the Microsoft Azure data stack, building high-performance pipelines and migration engines using Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, PySpark, Python, and SQL.
Key Responsibilities
- Design migration payloads - constructing optimised, transactional data packages and schema mappings
- Orchestrate ELT/ETL processes, building fault-tolerant automated ingestion pipelines using Azure Data Factory
- Implement Change Data Capture (CDC) logic in Azure Synapse Analytics for incremental delta loads
- Write PySpark notebook jobs for data transformations, file partitioning, and data cleansing using Spark DataFrames
- Build native object-oriented utility applications in Python for API payload validation
- Author advanced SQL queries, stored procedures, and analytical views to model Dedicated SQL Pools
- Collaborate with customers and stakeholders, mentoring junior team members where required
Key Skills Required
- 5+ years of active cloud data engineering experience - essential
- Extensive hands-on expertise across Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, PySpark, Python, and SQL Scripting
- Strong knowledge of Azure Synapse Pipelines and cloud orchestration tools
- Experience working with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS) and Azure SQL Databases
- Proficiency across multiple file formats including Delta Lake and JSON
Contract Details
- Duration: 3 months
- Day Rate: £400-420
- Determination: Inside IR35
- Location: Hybrid - Coventry(3 days onsite per week)
- Start Date: ASAP