Senior Data Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by 1770882237
Negotiable
Inside
Onsite
Manchester
Summary: The Senior Data Engineer will play a crucial role in a strategic program aimed at modernizing a global client's booking system by migrating from legacy platforms to a new system by 2026. This position involves building and maintaining robust data pipelines to ensure high-quality, accessible, and secure data for analytics and operational reporting. The role requires collaboration within an Agile team and mentoring junior engineers while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives. The contract is for an initial six months, requiring on-site presence in Manchester three days a week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, maintain and optimise scalable, secure and well-governed data pipelines.
- Develop and maintain data models (Data Vault and Dimensional).
- Ensure data quality, lineage, governance and security standards are embedded in all pipelines.
- Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventative solutions.
- Collaborate in Agile delivery, supporting sprint planning, refinement, testing and show & tell sessions.
- Mentor and share knowledge with junior engineers, supporting a collaborative team environment.
- Contribute to continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to optimise processes, workflows and system performance.
Key Skills:
- Experience building data pipelines in distributed environments (DBT, Snowflake, SQL Server Stack; experience with Kafka, MySQL, Azure or AWS is a plus).
- Strong expertise in Data Vault and Dimensional modelling is essential.
- Experience embedding data governance, quality, monitoring and alerting into pipelines.
- Knowledge of Agile delivery and CI/CD principles.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience collaborating across multi-site and international teams.
- Experience with enterprise data warehouses and end-to-end data lifecycle management.
Salary (Rate): £650 daily
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Senior Data Engineer
Our Global client is looking for a Data Engineer to join a strategic programme to modernise their booking system, migrating from legacy platforms to a new platform by the end of 2026. The team is building robust data pipelines from multiple source systems to support this migration, ensuring high-quality, accessible and secure data for analytics and operational reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, maintain and optimise scalable, secure and well-governed data pipelines.
- Develop and maintain data models (Data Vault and Dimensional).
- Ensure data quality, lineage, governance and security standards are embedded in all pipelines.
- Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventative solutions.
- Collaborate in Agile delivery, supporting sprint planning, refinement, testing and show & tell sessions.
- Mentor and share knowledge with junior engineers, supporting a collaborative team environment.
- Contribute to continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to optimise processes, workflows and system performance.
Skills & Experience Required
- Experience building data pipelines in distributed environments (DBT, Snowflake, SQL Server Stack; experience with Kafka, MySQL, Azure or AWS is a plus).
- Strong expertise in Data Vault and Dimensional modelling is essential.
- Experience embedding data governance, quality, monitoring and alerting into pipelines.
- Knowledge of Agile delivery and CI/CD principles.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience collaborating across multi-site and international teams.
- Experience with enterprise data warehouses and end-to-end data lifecycle management.
Why Join?
This is a high-impact programme where your work will directly support a major technology transformation. You'll work with an experienced, international team, gain exposure to modern data platforms and play a key role in delivering reliable, high-quality data to drive business decisions.
Please note: This is an initial 6 month contract to start immediately and paying £550-650pd inside IR35. Candidates must be able to commit to 3 days per week in the Manchester HQ.
