Azure Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & DevOps

First Quantum Minerals; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

First Quantum Minerals in London is seeking a senior data engineer to shape the Data Engineering Service within the Azure cloud stack. Reporting to the Group Data Operations Lead, you will design, develop, and maintain data pipelines in Azure Databricks and Data Factory, driving security, governance, and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, advance CI/CD practices, enforce quality gates, and collaborate with Centre of Excellence to ensure scalable, cost-efficient data solutions across the

Qualifications

• At least six years in data management disciplines with modern cloud data platforms.
• Experience leading engineering quality in a multi-supplier or managed-service setup is advantageous.
• Mining, heavy industry, or comparable industrial experience is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce data engineering patterns for large-scale processing.
• Own DevOps end-to-end including CI/CD, environment strategy and release governance.
• Govern data and algorithms used for analysis and automated decisions.
• Mentor engineers and build a strong succession capability.
• Collaborate with Centre of Excellence to govern permissions and access.

Skills

SQL expertise

Data pipelines

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Spark

DevOps

CI/CD

Data governance

IoT telemetry

orchestration

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Spark

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

OAuth2

Job description

First Quantum Minerals in London is seeking a senior data engineer to shape the Data Engineering Service within the Azure cloud stack. Reporting to the Group Data Operations Lead, you will design, develop, and maintain data pipelines in Azure Databricks and Data Factory, driving security, governance, and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, advance CI/CD practices, enforce quality gates, and collaborate with Centre of Excellence to ensure scalable, cost-efficient data solutions across the